He explained their mison: To work collaboratively with others to aid our homeless brothers and sisters by offering a continuum of services including emergency shelter and access to supportive housing and comprehensive social services.
Their overnight café has two goals: first, to provide a safe, warm, and hospitable drop-in center for the homeless; second, to connect the homeless with area social service providers who can offer more permanent solutions to homelessness including, but not limited to: veterans services, connection to benefits, counseling services, job and housing referrals, and prenatal care.
Principles of Practice:
1. Everyone can change their situation in life. We believe
in people when they don't believe in themselves. We continue to believe until
they also believe.
2. Listening, without judgment, is key. We accept
individuals where they are and how they interpret their experiences in the
world. It is not our job to advise people on how to live their lives.
3. Every guest has dignity and deserves respect. No matter
how someone presents to us, they are treated like an invited guest to our
"home".
4. We create a safe and beautiful space. Staff set the tone
for the experience of each guest. Despite the way the rest of the world
receives and reacts to our guests, they can feel safe and at ease in our space.
5. We are masters of
accommodation. We are flexible when we can be, working to meet individual needs
when it does not interfere with others' safety. There are only five rules and
everything else is negotiable.
There are Five Rules: 1. No
Violence; 2. No Weapons; 3. No Alcohol; 4. No Drugs; 5. No Smoking in the
building)
They provide up to 80 beds per night. in 2016 they moved 158 men and women into stable housing.
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If you are so moved by this work, yu can join their Adopt-a-Cot program. $38 buys a cot for a person for a night.
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