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Hamilton Family Center Prepares for the "Big One"

Earthquakes, fires, tsunamis, and mudslides have shaped and reshaped our peninsula for millions of years, and as time and history have shown, natural disasters are a near certainty in Northern California. In the event that a natural disaster strikes the Bay Area, Hamilton Family Center has teamed up with The San Francisco Foundation and SF Community Agencies Responding to Disaster (SFCARD) t...

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Hamlin School Girls Cook Meals for HFC Families

As a key part of a weekend of service-focused activites at the Hamlin School, 250 volunteers gathered to provide food and supplies for families living in the Hamilton Family Center Residences and Emergency Shelter in San Francisco's Tenderloin. With heartfelt thanks, the board and staff of Hamilton Family Center appreciates the hard work of these dedicated students.  See the full story and mor...

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HFC invited to present at 3 NAEH workshops in Los Angeles

Recognizing the leadership role that Hamilton Family Center has assumed in providing services for homeless services and rapid rehousing in the Bay Area, Executive Director, Beth Stokes and two other Hamilton Family Center employees have been invited to present at the National Alliance to End Homelessness Family Conference in Los Angeles. If you are going to be at the conference, please stop by ...

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A foster care winner for California

LA Times – January 27 2010 Assembly Bill 12 would let the state get federal money and help troubled children. It needs to pass. The federal government offers funding to help states provide human services such as health and foster care, and that's fine as far as it goes. But sometimes the money comes with the wrong strings. For example, the feds for too long paid states to pluck abused or n...

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Suddenly Homeless Web Developer

The moving story of one family who never expected to find themselves without a home, and how Hamilton Family Emergency Center and First Avenues helped them move out of homelessness. Reposted from DailyFinance.com, please read this story about an aspiring web-developer who became homeless. Earlier this year, the National Alliance to End Homelessness estimated that 1.5 million people would be mad...

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