Esperanza Services is a nonprofit organization that has served the developmentally disabled community within Los Angeles areas since 1996.We worked from a small office at the Alhambra Complex offering services to a handful of consumers. By hard work, word of mouth, the number of people we served began to grow. By 2001, we had 40 consumers and, by 2004, we were serving over 100 consumers and had 42 employees on staff while also providing shelter and housing services to approximately 45 families.