SAVE Family Foundation began in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, in our own neighborhood. We watched the crisis hit close to home: people out of work, families going hungry, neighbors unhoused, and so many struggling quietly with depression and anxiety. Like a lot of families, our family responded the way we knew how: individually, wherever we each saw a need. 

We gave to the Sacramento Food Bank and other local organizations. We sat down with local officials about the homelessness crisis. We provided pro bono therapy and community wellness support because so many people around us were hurting. We picked up extra shifts at our rural hospital, continuing a longstanding family commitment to expanding healthcare access in underserved Northern California. And we built nutrition and culinary-medicine programs, healthy-cooking sessions for Medicare patients and schoolchildren, alongside mindfulness and drug-awareness education. 

At some point, the realization was simple: there is strength in unity. Everything we were each doing separately would go further, reach more people, and last longer if we brought it together under one roof. So we did, and SAVE Family Foundation was born. 

SAVE Family Foundation is a clinician-led, Sacramento-based foundation increasing access to wellness, mental health, nutrition, housing stability, and education. Born from years of grassroots volunteer work across the Northern Valley, SAVE brings that work together and platforms it through a family foundation. We don't just connect people to care; we deliver it, and we grow the specialized workforce that provides it. 

We're building this one domain at a time, starting with mental health, so that every commitment we make is measured by real, demonstrable impact. That family ethos still runs through everything we do, a belief that healthcare, education, and basic stability shouldn't depend on your zip code, and that a family united around its community can build something bigger than any one of us alone.