The Penny Lane Centers Antelope Valley Transitional Services program is a spin-off of our North Hills facility. In early 2003, we began searching for an appropriate site to start providing housing and support services for the emancipated and emancipating foster youth of the Antelope Valley. What we found was a six-unit apartment building, with two bedrooms per unit near transportation major business areas.

Over the course of the next eight months, HomeAid www.homeaid.org and Trimark Pacific Homes
www.trimarkpacific.com donated necessary renovations that brought the apartments up to a comfortable living standard for residents. Those renovations included drywall repair, painting, new flooring and a perimeter block wall with rod iron fencing across the front of the units.

With Independent Living Program funding, we are able to house 18 residents, focusing particularly on mothers with small children, a population desperately in need of resources in the Antelope Valley area. All residents must have emancipated from the court jurisdiction and are between the ages of 18 and 21. One last eligibility requirement is that all of the residents at this particular site must have emancipated from placement in the Antelope Valley, with the major part of their support system in the area.