Community Resources
Santa Barbarbara Neighborhood Clinics
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics provides high quality, comprehensive, affordable healthcare to all people, regardless of their ability to pay, in an environment that fosters respect, compassion and dignity.
Sansum Clinic
Sansum Clinic, the largest non-profit outpatient healthcare organization between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area, is now part of Sutter Health. Sutter and Sansum each have a century-long commitment to improving the health of the communities they serve.
Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation
Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation advocates for families living in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties that have a child with cancer by providing financial, educational, and emotional support.
VNA Health
VNA Health is the only licensed nonprofit comprehensive home health, inpatient and home hospice agency in Santa Barbara County, with a charitable mission. In 2022 VNA Health extended $2.7 million in these charitable programs and services,and the need for all services continues to grow.
Cottage Health
Cottage Health’s mission is to serve our community with excellence, integrity, and compassion. Every day we touch thousands of lives in many different ways, resolute in our mission to put patients first. We take pride in helping our patients get back to living their lives - in the places they love.
Starfish Connection
The Starfish Connection is a startup nonprofit dedicated to building thriving communities by empowering individuals and fostering connection through crisis funding and community storytelling. We believe that a single act of generosity can help transform a life and that by sharing our experiences through storytelling, we create an environment for not only surviving a crisis but thriving through it.
End of Life Death Doulas
The Dying in Grace End of Life Death Doulas are loving, compassionate, experienced professionals and hospice volunteers who completed additional training to become doulas. An end of life doula is a non-medical supportive companion and guide to assist the dying person toward a more comfortable/conscious dying experience. All services are FREE and are offered in English and Spanish.