40 beds. Up to 12 months. Pathway to permanence.
Villa Paloma is Rainbow Services’ transitional housing program, a longer-term residential setting for survivors moving from emergency shelter or community referrals toward permanent independent housing. Confidential due to California Penal Code requirement and PII protected due to VAWA.
Emergency shelter stabilizes the crisis. Transitional housing rebuilds the life around it.
Emergency shelter stops the immediate danger. Transitional housing addresses the structural conditions that make it hard to stay safe: no income, no credit history, no housing record, no support network outside the abuser.
Villa Paloma gives survivors up to 12 months to build those structural foundations before returning to the private housing market. The program is not a halfway house. It is a residential environment with wraparound voluntary services: case management, legal services, employment support, support groups, and children’s services.
The 12-month design parameter reflects program structure. Residents transition when they are ready and when their funding source allows. Your advocate explains the parameters of your specific placement at intake.
Crisis stabilization. Days to weeks. Rainbow House.
Structural rebuilding. Months to 12 months. Villa Paloma.
Subsidized, Section 8, unsubsidized, or family-based. Tracked at exit.
Measured at exit, not at intake.
Among the 82 shelter participants who exited residential programs in FY2024–25, exit destinations were as follows. These are structural outcomes: where survivors actually went, not where we hoped they would go.
Completed their residential program
Moved permanently with family or friends
Moved to subsidized or Section 8 rentals
Moved to unsubsidized market-rate rentals
Children stay with their parent or guardian.
Villa Paloma is a family-inclusive transitional housing program. Children of all ages are welcome alongside their parent or guardian survivor for the duration of the housing placement, up to 12 months.
Children receive basic support and continuity alongside their parent or guardian survivor: a consistent, safe residential environment, age-appropriate information, and help with everyday logistics. Villa Paloma is not a treatment setting, not a licensed childcare facility, and not a tutoring or extracurricular program. It is a supportive residential environment designed to keep families intact.
Read the full children & families program brief →84% government. 16% private.
Villa Paloma operates with sustained support from federal, state, and county grants alongside private giving. Government contracts hold the core. Private gifts strengthen the program's ability to stay with each resident through a full transition.
Private gifts give the program room to meet each resident where they are.
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