About CIS

The Salvation Army has been serving Southern California for more than 130 years, including institutional work addressing homelessness. Community Integration Services (CIS) is a program focused on housing stability and community integration in Southern California. Our work is designed to prevent homelessness in at-risk households, help people acquire and retain permanent housing, and provide career development, job placement, and supportive services to underserved populations characterized by unemployment and underemployment, including military veterans. Our goal is to maximize each individual’s potential for self-sufficiency while treating them with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. CIS operates independently of any single residential facility.

• Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) – Single Adult, Families, Transitional Age Youth

• Supportive Services for Veterans Families  (SSVF) – Veterans ONLY

• Shallow Subsidy Program (SSP)

• Veteran Employment Services (VES) – Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program  

• Athens Vistas Senior Apartments – 

  • Athens Vistas serves a mixed population, comprised of general low-income seniors and a 37-unit special needs segment for homeless seniors. The units are Section 8 Project Based Vouchers from the Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles for the Homeless senior units. The immediate neighborhood is developed primarily with single-family homes that are 70 to 90 years old and small multi-unit residential properties. 

• San Fernando: Harding Apartments & Park View Place Apartments - 

  • “Residential Development providing affordable housing to low-income individuals and families, with some reserved for those with special needs.”