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Welcome to San Francisco Homeless Resource
a resource directory that anyone can edit
827 articles since December 2006
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Basic Instructions for finding services:
1. Click on List All Pages or Categories in the menu above this line. This will give you access to the agencies and services if you know their name.
or 2. Type in the agency name or service in the search box below, or use Google by clicking below the search box.
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Add your search terms after site:sfhomeless.wikia.com.
San Francisco Homeless Resource is a collaborative website for homeless advocates, providers, government and others in San Francisco. The wiki is a new evolution of how all parties helping the homeless can get together and share information efficiently and quickly.
The site can be updated by any user, so everyone can add and update information -- allowing much greater efficiency in serving the homeless community in San Francisco.
Check out the Frequently Asked Questions page to learn more about how to be a part of the wiki!
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* LHCB Full Board meeting changed from Jan 5 to Jan 12. See LHCB box below for time and location details.
* SAGE founder Norma Hotaling passed away December 16. She was an international heroine in rescuing those trapped in prostitution. Here is a Chronicle article about her life.
* Please note! the Shelter Monitoring Committee will be meeting at City Hall, Room 421 in 2009. See 2009 schedule below on this page (they have a box on right near bottom).
* NEW! The San Francisco 2009 Homeless Count needs volunteers. San Francisco’s next bi-annual count of homeless persons will take place on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 from 7pm to 12am. A one-hour training takes place from 7-8pm. The homeless count is a volunteer-driven, community-wide effort coordinated by the San Francisco Human Services Agency. See e-mail to HomelessCount@sfgov.org or call (415) 558-2346. Click here for a pdf of the volunteer info flyer.
* NEW! We're looking for stories about how SFHomeless.net has helped people. If you're a government worker, service provider, advocate, homeless individual, or member of the general public, and you have used SFHomeless.net to find or do something that helped someone, please e-mail David Beall with any story you have. You can remain anonymous if you wish, but please state your general job title or situation. Thank you!
* NEW! IMPORTANT!! Oshun Women's Drop-in Center has relocated to 211-13th st, Buster's old location. The current services are on the wiki page. They are still providing emergency 24 hour drop-in services for women.
* NEW ! Interfaith Winter Shelter Schedule and Procedures now uploaded.
* Hank Wilson passed away on November 9 Hank was a great supporter of SFHomeless.net, and a great advocate for the homeless. BeyondChron has an article about his life.
* NEW! The 6th Street Self Help Center is now open, and here is the wiki page showing their services.
* NEW! Amazing story! 10-6-08 Massachusetts admits when shelters are full, and puts homeless families in motels.
* NEW! Since the passage of funding for the Community Justice Center a wiki page has been created to load information about it, and for others to learn more about it.
* NEW! Here's a story dated July 9 that showcases a program in Santa Barbara to help the vehicularly housed. I think we need a new category for services for these homeless. Any suggestions for what to call it and what to include? E-mail me david@sfrevival.org
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We have received lots of feedback from all of you saying how much you love SFHomeless.net! But this site isn't about us making some changes here and there, but about you coming forth with your knowledge and wisdom and sharing it!!
Wish 1: More people pressing EDIT on the top of the agency page they're visiting -- and then adding useful info, or new info, or changed info, etc.!
Wish 2: Please contribute to the How Do You - Main Portal. In it you the expert share with others how to do something that you probably explain to others all day long anyway. I hear from people all the time how they don't know common procedures, and don't know where to go to get some info. PLEASE HELP by writing down the answers to these questions and then you might not have to answer them on phone so much because this page will turn into this great resource that people will naturally check first before calling you!
Wish 3: Please contribute to the newly created Homelessness Policy Overview page. There is so much policy angst in this City with all the different approaches to all the different areas of how we help the homeless, that we need a place to write it all down to properly educate ourselves. And not just for the provider community but the public too. They need a place beside the media to get arguments for-and-against these different proposals that seem to come out every week.
Wish 4: Another plea for Wish 1. It's easy to EDIT info on a page. Click on EDIT on the top of every page and a Word-like page opens up, and you change the info as easy a editing a Word doc. Then press SAVE. You're done. Easy. You've contributed! Thank you!
Wish 5: Please contribute to the newly created Neighborhood Portal Project. This is going to be awesome when it's done. All we need are volunteers to help add Neighborhood categories to existing agency pages. Then one day soon someone needing a service in their neighborhood can click and get help because a client is more willing to go some place local to them instead of going into the Tenderloin or Civic Center where a lot of services seem to be congested.
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| SFHomeless.net's new Portal for answering basic questions for how to help the homeless!
---> How Do You - Main Portal <---
How do you get into a shelter? How do you get benefits? How do you get into supportive housing?
Community edited and supported, and still needs expert contributions to the answers. Please help!
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SAN FRANCISCO HOMELESS RESOURCE
SFHOMELESS.NET
a Network for SF Homeless (& Advocates)
COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS
COH is a leading homeless advocacy agency in San Francisco. Check their wiki page or web site for a description of their services.
Click here to read the COH blog with commentary and news. BLOG
Weekly workgroups at 468 Turk:
- Civil Rights, Mondays from 12:00-2:00
- Families and Immigrants, Mondays at 12:00
- Housing First for Families campaign committee, Thursdays at 12:00
- Right to a Roof, Wednesdays at 3:00
Also check the Street Sheet for updates and news.
Coalition's wiki page.
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING NETWORK
DATE CHANGE!!! The Supportive Housing Network (SHN) meets every 3rd Thursday, 3-5pm, at the Dorothy Day Community Room located at 54 McAllister.
SHN is a network made up of direct service providers, resident leaders and property managers in Supportive Housing in SF. Our goal is to increase education on SH issues in efforts to lower the rates of evictions in SF’s Supportive Housing.
We have a training component at each of our meetings—usually a speaker invited to share their expertise on a related topic.
Supportive Housing Network wiki page
TEN YEAR PLAN IMPLEMENTATION COUNCIL
The TYPIC monitors the City's Ten Year Plan to End Homeless and works with government agencies, the Local Homeless Coordinating Board, and other groups and the public to ensure that the directives of the plan are being implemented.
The council meets at quarterly meetings with the Policy Cluster, LHCB, and Shelter Monitoring Committee. As of 2008 the council no longer has public bi-weekly meetings, and has changed its meeting place to Room 305 at City Hall.
Meeting schedule:
NOTE: 2009 Schedule to be posted. First meeting not until February or March.
San Francisco Ten Year Plan Implementation Council wiki page
BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM
HOMELESS ADVOCACY PROJECT
RESOURCE MANUAL
LOCAL HOMELESS COORDINATING BOARD
Meeting Schedule:
- Full Board, TBA, (usually first Monday of month), 3-5pm at 170 Otis, Born Auditorium
- January meeting is January 12, not January 5.
- Policy Committee, TBA, 11:00-12:30, 1440 Harrison, 2nd or 3rd floor conf rm
- Funding Committee, TBA, 10:00-12:00, 1440 Harrison, 2nd or 3rd floor conf rm
The Local Homeless Coordinating Board is the lead entity for the San Francisco Continuum of Care. The Local Board works to ensure a unified homeless strategy that is supported by the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, City departments, nonprofit agencies, people who are homeless or formerly homeless and the community at large. All efforts are aimed at permanent solutions, and the range of services is designed to meet the unique and complex needs of individuals who are threatened with or currently experiencing homelessness.
LHCB wiki page
SAN FRANCISCO HOMELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS' NETWORK
December Meeting: CANCELLED!
January Meeting: January 15th, 10:00-12:00, 401 Van Ness, Room 213. Grace Telcs will be presenting on The Sanctuary and Next Door shelters.
Service providers and advocates meet monthly to network, discuss issues, and confront challenges facing the homeless community.
SFHSPN also maintains a discussion group for regular e-mail communications.
To join, send an e-mail to sfshell@pacbell.net
Joining and Using SFHSPN's discussion group
PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT
- PHC 26, Wednesday, February 4, 2009
- PHC 27, Thursday, April 9, 2009 - focusing on families and children
- PHC 28, Wednesday, June 24, 2009
- PHC 29, Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - in the Bayview
- PHC 30, Wednesday, December 2, 2009
PHC Web site
SHELTER MONITORING COMMITTEE
The Shelter Monitoring Committee provides the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, the Local Homeless Coordinating Board, the public, and any other appropriate agency with accurate, comprehensive information about the conditions in and operations of shelters and resource centers. The 13-member body meets monthly to hear concerns and suggestions about City-funded shelters and resource centers and conducts announced and unannounced site visits.
Please note! the Shelter Monitoring Committee will be meeting at City Hall, Room 421 in 2009. Please post for clients and members of the public. Committee Meetings begin at 10:00 AM. For more information about the meeting or to request a copy of the agenda, please call 415.255.3642.
- January 7, 2009
- February 11, 2009
- March 4, 2009
- April 1, 2009
- May 6, 2009
- June 3, 2009
- July 1, 2009
- August 5, 2009
- September 2, 2009
- October 7, 2009
- November 4, 2009
- December 9, 2009
Shelter Monitoring Committee wiki page
DOCUMENTATION
PDF or link to many popular handouts, brochures, training material, and misc literature used by the homeless and advocate community.
Documentation Page
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