The Whole Child – Mental Health and Housing Services (TWC) considers Citizens Business Bank one of its most steadfast ‘Business Angels.’ Year after year, the bank provides philanthropic support for TWC’s work to serve families experiencing homelessness and children/ youth with mental health needs.
Over the past three years, Citizens Business Bank has provided more than $40,000
to help TWC with services, operations and a capital project. The bank was a partner in helping keep TWC’s doors open during the COVID pandemic, allowing the organization to continue its work as an ‘essential services’ provider. The bank’s sponsorship also helps build TWC’s “Homeless to Homeowner” project for unhoused families and those at risk of homelessness. As the first of its kind in Los Angeles County, this capital project offers housing solutions – interim housing (shelter), affordable apartments and homeownership opportunities, all coordinated by and connected through a trauma-informed service and wellness center. A project of this magnitude and impact requires many supporters, and Citizens Business Bank was among the first in this private-public-corporate-community funding partnership.
Citizens Business Bank truly takes its corporate responsibility role seriously and graciously, embodying not an obligation, but a sincere and genuine belief in sharing in the work to solve community problems. For TWC, this means helping respond to some of the Los Angeles communities’ most urgent issues – homelessness among families and mental health needs among children and teens. Year after year, the bank provides financial support to the organization, transforming families’ lives to ones of stability.
