Organization Mission
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Council of Los Angeles, is part of a worldwide organization of lay Catholic men and women who are committed to live and grow in their Christian faith through prayer and personal involvement in charitable works. The Society’s mission is accomplished through parish and community-based groups called Conferences (volunteers) and programs called “Special Works.” The Society’s work includes any actions that promote the dignity of the person, alleviate suffering and distress, while correcting the conditions that cause them.

About Saint Vincent De Paul Council of Los Angeles
Today, it is an international organization of lay Catholic women and men with more than 1,000,000 members in 142 countries, and a mission to “seek and find the forgotten, the suffering or the deprived.” Members of the Society seek, in a spirit of justice and charity, to promote the dignity of the person and alleviate human suffering and distress, while correcting conditions that caused them. They are actively involved in providing person-to-person assistance to those in need, guided by the credo of ~ “No Act of Charity is Foreign to the Society” The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Council of Los Angeles, provides programs and services for children, the homeless and the poor, free of charge regardless of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, handicap or national origin within the counties of Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara. These programs and services include the operations of St. Vincent’s Cardinal Manning Center, Circle V Ranch Camp, St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store (which also distributes clothes, furniture and appliances free of charge to the needy), a winter shelter in Ventura County, a prisoner resettlement program that helps newly paroled inmates turn their lives around, and more than 100 community-based conferences of lay volunteers that have furnished direct services and referrals to poor individuals and families throughout the above mentioned counties since 1908.