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Working
Essentials provides support to many local homeless agencies. Through our
item donations, job counselors are better able to support their clients,
and help them through the difficult process of job interviewing. Please
take a look at our partner agencies, and see what wonderful work they do.
To apply to become a Working Essentials agency,
contact us at 415-565-0201 or send an email to SMcNeil@afsc.org. We will
happily send you more information and our criteria for partner agencies.
Arriba Juntos
Arriba Juntos provides training and
employment services such as computer training, nurse assistant training,
and on-the-job training. We serve youth and adults who are low-income or
homeless, and work with other agencies to promote a revitalized community.
Compass Community Services
Compass Community Services serves
families confronting poverty and homelessness by supporting their efforts
to achieve stability and realize their individual potential. Services
include securing and maintaining permanent housing, employment services,
individual and group counseling and enriched child care and parent
education.
Coronado
Coronado is an apartment for
homeless who are veterans, multiply-diagnosed with chronic addiction, mental illness,
physical disabilities, HIV+/AIDS, battered women, and recent prison
releases. Coronado
provides job training, and job counseling &placement to promote
long-term rehabilitative transformations.
CVE,
Inc
CVE's provides job training and support programs to
individuals with mental health disabilities, empowering them to fulfill their
employment potential
Eddy
Street Apartments
Eddy Street
Apartments provides permanent supportive housing for individuals and
families on a low or fixed income. Its service includes job training, job
counseling& and placement, education/literacy, and establishing income
stream.
Episcopal Community
Services/Skills Center Program
The Skills Center provides pre-employment and on-site
job training, adult basic education classes, job counseling, and the
Conquering Homelessness through Employment in Food Services (CHEFS)
program.
Haight-Ashbury Food
Program
The mission of the Haight Asbury Food Program is
to support the principle that freedom from hunger is a right, not a
privilege. The program provides meals, job
training and referral services to those in need while fostering a sense of
belonging and self-worth for all involved.
Hamilton Family
Center
Founded in 1985, this agency operates three residential programs for
homeless families to help them regain independence in society. Hamilton accommodates
up to 250 people per night, with children comprising 60% of the residents.
Families may stay for up to 30 days, six months, or eighteen months, while
they work towards their goals of economic independence and regaining
permanent housing.
Homeless
Advocacy Project
The HAP offers legal services, with supporting social services, to
individuals and families who are homeless or at serious risk of
homelessness.
Homeless Prenatal
Program
Since 1989 HPP has been providing homeless parents and pregnant women with
the support and access to care necessary to have a healthy baby. This
includes prenatal care; counseling and advocacy; referrals for housing,
substance abuse problems; and legal aid.
Northern
California Service League
Founded in 1948, the Northern California Service League provides social
services to the men and women who are, or have been, incarcerated. Many
leaving prison have no source of income, no place to live, and no job. NCSL guides them to resources and social
services that can help them re-establish themselves in a positive manner in
society.
Riley Center
The Riley Center offers safe and
confidential services for women in abusive relationships and their children
through the Emergency Shelter, Brennan
House and the Community Office.
St. Joseph's Village
An emergency residential program for homeless families and pregnant women.
Services include case management, substance abuse counseling, therapy
assessments and referrals, money management, job search support, aftercare,
and children’s activity programs. Housing, meals and services are
provided for up to 65 people.
Swords to
Plowshares
Established in 1974, Swords to Plowshares
provides direct services to help homeless and low-income
veterans gain re-entry into society and educates the public about
national and local policies that impact needy veterans.
Walden House
Since 1969, Walden House has
provided behavioral health and human services while specializing in
substance abuse treatment. The family-oriented, peer-support emphasis
teaches clients honesty and mutual accountability. Walden
House utilizes this treatment approach in both
residential and day treatment settings.
Apply to
become a Receiving Agency
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