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Project Dignity

serving the homeless with dignity, humility & love

Who We Are

Hanging Out Together

Hanging Out Together

We are passionately committed to serving our homeless friends living in local residential motels in Orange County, California. We’ve discovered that by staying in our own backyard we are actually serving our neighbors. While we intensely admire organizations who reach out to meet the many needs all over the country and world, we know there’s enough work for us to do, in our own communities.

We’re sorry but we only provide services at 20 local motels in Orange County, California. We wish we could respond to all requests for help, but unfortunately we can’t.

We do not release the names of motels where we serve because we are serious about protecting our clients’ privacy.

The children we meet on a daily basis go to the same schools as our children, their parents shop in the same stores as we do (when they have the money, which is in short supply).

They work at the same places as we do. (The majority of our adult clients are not on welfare. They work. They work minimum wage jobs at amusement parks, malls, retail stores, cineplexes, restaurants, gas stations, etc.)

Santa's Helpers

Santa’s Helpers

We began serving Orange County, California’s street homeless population in 1991. In 1996, due to the greatest need co-founders Dave & Linda saw right around the corner from their home (literally), Project Dignity redefined its mission to address the needs of the families and especially children living in residential motels.

It has been our experience that people living in motels are the most underserved and misunderstood of all homeless.

Most people don’t even realize that families of 4, 5 or more actually live there. In 1998, after shadowing Project Dignity for six months, the Orange County, California Register published the multi award winning 24 page article entitled “Motel Children”.

We believe that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, in a compassionate and caring manner. We orient our volunteers to love and care for the people we serve, who are in great need.

Our main function is to love our homeless friends. It is our mission to assist them and ease their daily burdens. It is our goal to support our clients along the path that returns them to permanent housing.

Making Snowcones—Thanks for your Help!

Making Snowcones—Thanks for your Help!

It’s not our intent to keep families comfortably in the motels, but to help them find the resources, and confidence to get out.

We keep in mind that all families develop at their own rates.

Some families will require more help, for longer than others.

Each case is unique and we treat our clients with the dignity they deserve.

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What We Do

While we don’t feel anyone can ever fully understand the motel situation, we believe we understand it better than most. To our knowledge we are the only local organization who is focusing their services solely on the homeless population living in residential motels and we’ve been doing it since 1996.

It’s a long haul from homelessness to home, so our programs “wraparound” the challenges. Our first objective is to ease the burdens of daily living for our clients by assisting with necessities most of us take for granted–food, clothing and hygiene items.

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A tribute to our Founder

In 1986 doctors told Linda Dunlap she had 6 months to live and she told them the Lord knew more about that than they did. She said He had a lot more work for her to do. She proved herself and God right by living another 22 ministry-packed years.

Linda went into the motels singlehandedly with nothing more than her backpack and a few medical supplies. She won the confidence of people who had never had anyone care about them or help them before. Her belief and vision that one person can make a difference grew into 10,000 people being helped annually by Project Dignity.

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Project Dignity

12913 Harbor Blvd., Ste. Q3, #253
Garden Grove, CA 92840

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