Alternate Avenues

Prevent the destruction of unborn life while providing hope and healing to those affected by abortion

Alternate Avenues is an outreach ministry of Jesus Christ through His church. Therefore, Alternate Avenues, embodied in its volunteers, is committed to presenting the gospel of our Lord to women in crisis pregnancies - both in word and in deed when the opportunities present themselves. Commensurate with this purpose, those who labor as Alternate Avenues board members, directors, and volunteers are expected to know Christ as their Savior and Lord.

Alternate Avenues is committed to providing clients with accurate and complete information about both prenatal development and abortion.

Alternate Avenues is committed to helping women carry their babies to term by providing emotional support and practical assistance. Through the provision of God's people, and the community at large, women may face the future with hope and plan constructively for themselves and their babies.

Alternate Avenues never discriminates in providing services because of the race, creed, color, national origin, age, or marital status of its clients.

Alternate Avenues never advises, provides, or refers for abortion or abortifacients.

Alternate Avenues offers assistance free of charge at all times.

Alternate Avenues is committed to creating an awareness within the local community of the needs of pregnant women, and of the fact that abortion only compounds the crisis, rather than resolving it.

Alternate Avenues equally supports the life saving alternatives of adoption and parenting. Alternate Avenues is not affiliated with any adoption agency or adoption attorney. For clients seeking these services (legal, professional, or other) we provide referrals.

Alternate Avenues supports and promotes chastity (sexual abstinence) before marriage and offers practical instruction and counsel to that end.

Alternate Avenues does not engage in contraceptive counseling or in referring for contraceptives, nor contraceptive services. Married couples seeking contraceptive information should be referred to their physician as Alternate Avenues does not take a stand on this issue.

Alternate Avenues provides hope and counseling to women and men who have personally experienced the pain of abortion.

Alternate Avenues Women’s Resource Center was established in 1989 to provide hope, help and healing to women in crisis pregnancies. In the first few years, the center was run by a handful of volunteers and had operating hours limited to 10-15 hrs a week. Pregnancy tests were offered, as well as information on fetal development, abortion risks, adoption, and resources throughout the community. Within the first few months, we were offering Bridges to Motherhood, our parenting support program, and we had five women enrolled in the program. Even in such humble beginnings, we were excited to be the voice of hope to so many who were searching for an answer.

In addition to our part-time Executive Director, we were able to hire an Administrative Assistant. The following year we added an Event Coordinator and a Client Services Director. We also began offering abstinence education in local high schools, middle schools, and church youth groups throughout the Pomona Valley. Our program, now called Reality Check, reaches ______ students each year with the message that abstinence is the healthiest choice.

Over the last twenty years, Alternate Avenues has grown significantly. 2003 was an especially significant year for us. Under the leadership of Dr. John Sharpe, we became a licensed medical clinic and we began offering limited obstetrical ultrasounds for pregnancy diagnosis. The result is that 81% of abortion-minded women who view their unborn baby make a decision for life.

Today our Bridges program serves 35 to 40 families each week and includes “Bootcamp for New Dads” and “Dads 24/7.” The program is so successful we now meet in two locations, one in Rancho Cucamonga and one in Montclair.

The launching of our new client-based website in 2008 also greatly increased the potential for us to reach women in unplanned pregnancies with accurate information about their options and to encourage these women to come to the clinic for help. Since the launching of this website, we have seen a 30 to 40% increase in the number of women who come in for pregnancy tests and counseling.
As we look forward to the next few years, we are still humbled by the challenges ahead. There are still so many in need of love and support, so many in need of truth and hope, and most of all, so many in need of a Savior. Our goal is to increase our impact on the community around us and to continually expand our services to meet the needs of families in the Pomona Valley.

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday (3rd Sunday in Jan.),Walk for Life (April), Mothers Day Rose Sale, Golf Event?, Banquet