On a single Friday morning later this month, a resident struggling to find housing could walk into the Salvation Army Pasadena Tabernacle and sit down with a representative from the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, consult a legal aid attorney, pick up groceries, and schedule a health screening — all before lunch.
That is the premise behind Community Connect Day, a free, four-hour resources fair the Tabernacle is scheduled to host on May 22 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 960 E. Walnut St., in Pasadena.
More than 20 agencies are planning to be on site offering help in eight categories: housing, healthcare and mental health, food, employment and workforce development, legal aid, reentry services, youth and family programs, and senior services, according to the event’s volunteer recruitment listing on the Better Angels platform.
The participating agencies range from county departments to Pasadena nonprofits. Among those listed on the event flyer are the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, AltaMed, Pacific Clinics, Friends In Deed, Flintridge Center, Pasadena Humane Society &
SPCA, SafeParkingLA, COPE Health Solutions, WelbeHealth, the International Institute of Los Angeles, Home Instead, Justice For 626, and Due Process for Parents & Youth.
“Connect Day is designed to bring together trusted community-based organizations to connect residents with essential services, programs, and support resources in one welcoming, accessible location,” the Better Angels listing says.
The Salvation Army Pasadena Tabernacle, whose work in Pasadena dates to 1888, has hosted similar multi-agency outreach events annually since 2008,
The Tabernacle sits at the center of a growing social-services corridor on East Walnut Street. Next door, the Diane and John Mullin Hope Center, a roughly $32 million permanent supportive housing complex that opened in October 2023, provides 65 studio apartments for formerly homeless residents — 15 of them reserved for veterans — and operates a client-choice food pantry on its ground floor.
Volunteers interested in helping at the event can sign up through the Better Angels platform.
The Tabernacle’s social-services office can be reached at 626-773-4404; the main office number is 626-773-4400.
Health screenings will also be available at the event, according to the Salvation Army Pasadena Tabernacle’s Facebook page, which invited the public to attend “a day designed to support and care for our community.”
For residents who have never visited the Tabernacle, the building is easy to miss — set back from Walnut Street east of Lake Avenue, more institutional than storefront.
