What We Do
Hamilton Family Center was established in 1985 and has become one of the largest providers of shelter, eviction prevention assistance, rapid re-housing, youth programming, and support services to homeless families in San Francisco. We focus on four main areas of service.
1) Emergency and Interim Shelter
Hamilton Family Residences& Emergency Center provides homeless families access to overnight and short-term shelter, safety net support services, three nutritious meals a day, crisis intervention counseling, employment and life-skills training, housing search and placement assistance, individual and family therapy, and on-site medical services. Our Transitional Housing Program provides on-site apartments for up to 18 months to families identified as being at high risk for chronic homelessness to identify and begin to address the multiple barriers and factors that contribute to their homelessness..
The Dudley Apartments offers on-site services to formerly homeless families, extremely low-income seniors, and single adults with disabilities in a 75-unit permanent supportive housing program in partnership with Mercy Housing California.
Since 2006, our award-winning First Avenues program has prevented over 375 family evictions, assisted over 350 homeless families move out of shelter into permanent housing, and helped more than 125 families transition from the crisis of homelessness to the stability of a permanent home through short and medium term rental subsidies and intensive, home-based case management services to support families to stabilize in their homes
“Our plan to launch a broad homeless family system redesign is being realized today with First Avenues – Housing Solutions for Families. In utilizing the “Housing-First” approach – which is now a housing model for the rest of the country – what we have done for single adults, we can achieve the same level of success for families.”– Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco
3) Children and Youth Services – Project Potential
Our services for children and youth are a critical component in our efforts to combat generational family poverty in our community. Project Potential offers family-centered education projects and daily recreational enrichment activities for children from birth to age 18.
MyHousing.org is an online resource created to help low-income and homeless families easily and efficiently locate affordable housing in the California county where they live and connect them with local eviction prevention financial assistance, specialized banking services, credit repair programs, and financial aid to pay utility bills.
Pathways to Technology is an initiative to provide homeless families with computer literacy workshops while in shelter, their own family computer once they move into permanent housing, in-home computer training and problem solving, and one year of free internet service.
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