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Why the West Sacramento Mercy Coalition is changing its name after 15 years
By Don Bosley, Executive Director
June 19, 2025
It was 15 years ago, nearly to the day, that the Broderick Christian Center’s homeless day shelter burned down in West Sacramento. I remember hearing the news, and feeling the relief that no one had been hurt. I remember wondering what would happen next for the unsheltered individuals in my hometown.
Somewhere in those ashes was the origin of the Mercy Coalition. Churches, businesses and community members came together within days to begin filling some of the service gaps. It sparked a 15-year ride - and still going - of collaboration, innovation, and inspiration alongside some of our most vulnerable friends. The journey has been deeply humbling. And along the way, from the Winter Warming Centers to the Recovery Cafe to the JAM Academy, the Mercy Coalition mission has inched its way to a broader scope and perspective.
Compassion still drives our commitment to emergency food, shelter and resources. But those things are the seeds for something even more powerful: the building of authentically restorative community, especially for the marginalized and those impacted by trauma. Richly diverse in its makeup, passionately inclusive in its embrace, the Restorative Community is a refuge of hope, health and healing. It lives tangibly in our emerging Mosaic Village campus, but intangibly in all our program sites … and in so many of our cherished volunteers and Yolo County partners as well.
In a moment where diversity, inclusion, and even empathy are under attack, we stand in solidarity with those who feel targeted for their race, sexual orientation, gender identity, documentation status, mental-health diagnosis, or socioeconomic location. These are the friends who comprise our mosaic. The domestic violence survivor, the trans youth, the physically disabled, the refugee, the formerly incarcerated, the guy living under the bridge, and the white-collar professional stalked by deep childhood trauma - all of these and many more bring their unique piece to our landscape, and we are enriched by them.
To lean more fully into this mission and identity, we will be changing our agency name later this summer: from Mercy Coalition, to MOSAIC WEST SAC. In our collective soul, we feel that the moment invites us to such a move.
It is not a calculated re-branding.
It is a resolute statement of embrace.
It is the spirit captured in our Recovery Cafe logo - a picture of diverse, broken lives, finding our fit together, to create a vessel of warmth and wholeness for all. The shapes and colors are all different. Every piece has its sharp edges. But there is beauty to be found - individual and communal completeness - when those pieces commit to link and support one another. There is equity of opportunity, equity of voice, and equity of care.
The Restorative Community has never been more needed. A fierce kindness, an unwavering hand to the marginalized, a shared love and hope - these echo in our day as moral imperatives. Mosaic West Sac has every intention of amplifying that echo.
Stay tuned in the coming months as we continue to share about this important expansion of identity.