Stage, Furnish and Warm Homes for Wildfire Survivors this Holiday Season! (PM SHIFT)

We're approaching 2 years since the wildfires broke out in our city and your help is still needed. Volunteer on a Thursday or Friday to help in the home creation of wildfire survivors. Let's finish out the year strong and give families a soft, cozy place to gather for the holidays in their newly remediated, reconstructed or occupied home.

A Sense of Home’s Disaster Recovery Program helps families displaced by the LA wildfires bring comfort, function, and a sense of home to their new spaces. Working from our El Monte warehouse, volunteers thoughtfully select and stage donated furniture and home goods to furnish living rooms, bedrooms, and dining areas — all personalized to each family’s needs, taste, and layout.

We call these Home Creations and each is a hands-on, creative collaboration leading up to a reveal of the staged rooms to the recipient families. Volunteers then pack and load the items into a truck for each family to bring to their new home.

To date, we’ve completed 963 Home Creations and we need you to help us meet the home needs of the families still on our waitlist. This work is intentional, fulfilling and deeply needed. Join us!

Select a shift on a Thursday or Friday

AM Shift: 10:00am-12.30pm (creating 2-3 homes)

PM Shift: 1:00-3:30pm (creating 2-3 homes)

Stay for both shifts (5.5 hours total) and create up to 6 homes for 6 different families.

Here are the remaining 2026 dates we need help:

Thursday, 11/19, Friday, 11/20, Thursday, 12/3, Friday, 12/4, Thursday, 12/10, Friday, 12/11

In a single 2.5-hour shift, volunteers might be:

• Staging furniture, home items and decor
• Loading the above into recipients' moving trucks
• Assembling and cleaning furniture
• Organizing and restocking inventory
• Breaking down boxes and helping with general warehouse needs

By volunteering, you’re showing up for fellow Angelenos who have lost everything and are still rebuilding nearly two years after the fires—many of whom feel forgotten as public attention has faded. Your time and care help restore not just homes, but dignity, hope, and a sense of greater community support for families navigating one of the hardest chapters of their lives.

AGE LIMITATIONS + PHYSICAL/WAREHOUSE REQUIREMENTS

Ages 14 and up are welcome. Please inquire (volunteering@asenseofhome.org) about anybody younger entering the warehouse as well as groups of people under the age of 18. There are various tasks ranging from minimal physical exertion to heavier lifting of furniture. There is always something for everybody to do!

Volunteers entering the warehouse must be wearing closed toe shoes and are required to have signed our warehouse safety waiver, which is a part of our online registration. We strongly encourage volunteers to wear comfortable, season-appropriate clothing (it can get hot or chilly in the warehouse) that they don’t mind getting a little dusty.

Watch our video to learn more: ASOH's Disaster Recovery Program on Spectrum News