Get On The Bus

“Get on the Bus” (GOTB) is an organization whose mission is to bring children and their caregivers from throughout the State of California to visit their mothers or fathers who are in prison. This program was inaugurated in 1999 after a number of women religious visited prisons and learned that many of the women had not seen their children for the entire duration of their incarceration. A group of sisters and lay women sponsored the first Get on the Bus trip and the organi zation has grown since then, for many years under the leadership of Sisters of St. Joseph, Suzanne Steffen and Suzanne Jabro.

GOTB provides transportation to and from prisons, travel bags for the children, comfort bags for the caregivers and meals while in transit. This is all at no cost to a child’s family.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help is among several parishes within the Archdiocese of Los Angeles that have been asked by GOTB for support. To do this, an OLPH parishioner is needed who will act as the primary point of contact with GOTB in order to coordinate preparation of travel bags, comfort bags, meals and if desired, accompanying families traveling to and from the prisons.

If you would like to be considered for this, please call, text or email:
OLPH Business Manger Deacon Terry Irwin (213 646-2928)
[email protected]