Regional Watershed Defense Partnership
"Human Restoration. Sanctuary Preservation."
An engineered field framework built specifically to intercept runoffs and riparian encampments at the upstream source before trash can travel down-current into our shared marine sanctuaries.
At the California Clean Slate Program, we evaluate community health through an integrated lens. Our upcoming field deployments are strategically optimized to target unhoused individuals along the critical San Lorenzo River corridors and adjacent urban waterways right here in Santa Cruz.
By deploying our custom heavy-duty mobile hygiene units directly to these sensitive sectors, we build immediate, trusted rapport to move participants seamlessly into our 5-phase "Streets to Sheets" continuum of care.
This framework acts as a vital upstream intervention mechanism: by providing human-centric alternatives right at the source channels, we create a measurable drop in accumulated waste, plastics, and debris before they can ever flow downstream into the Santa Cruz Harbor and the protected Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.