Vacaville Solano Services Corporation has been providing life-changing homeless advocacy programming and temporary housing services in Solano County for the past 30 years. Since 2018, we have begun to implement life enhancing services and programs into our scope to enrich the lives of our residents and their children. We operate two shelters, one is a 52 bed work to housing program for individuals and families, and the other is an 8 bed transitional age youth emergency shelter. We operate 2 youth programs, our children’s health and wellness program operates on our shelter campus and Youth Rising is on site of two high schools in Solano County, a middle school Summer camp and community outreach. Our children’s health and wellness program is a comprehensive child-focused program for the children living with their parents at Opportunity House Shelter where they learn about cultural diversity and the arts and use traditional and non-traditional arts to process through their experiences of being a homeless child. Our Youth Rising outreach program encompasses afterschool programs and summer camps across Solano County utilizing the arts and case management as a way to reach Solano County’s at-risk youth population with an aim to prevent drugs, gangs, and homelessness amongst our youth. VSSC is currently working on piloting our program for children of incarcerated parents to use arts to give this hidden population a voice and empower them to not have shame in their parents incarceration and to use their experiences for strength.