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Mayor Kate Colin said St. Vincent’s supports the homeless as well as low-income communities. Monday-Friday at the rectory to provide food for those in need. Join St. Vincent de Paul Society on the frontlines with Christine, follow Paul’s journey from homelessness to hope, and hear an important message from our youngest volunteers. People without housing are invited to visit our Housing Help Desk for emergency assistance and housing counseling. Located in Novato, California, Gilead House is a residential home that houses up to six families.
This is a first point of contact if you are homeless or at imminent danger of becoming homeless. The center provides resources, counseling, intake for shelters, and other services for those in need. It also has showers, laundry, telephone, and mail services for your use. Conduct an assessment for single adults and families in need to determine the programs and housing options available to them.
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Founded as an orphanage in 1853 following a cholera epidemic, St. Vincent’s School for Boys is one of the oldest institutions west of the Mississippi dedicated exclusively to therapeutic and compassionate care of traumatized boys. St. Vincent’s is a 52-bed licensed Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program annually serving up to 60 boys ages 7-18, who are referred from in-patient psychiatric facilities and county agencies throughout Northern California. The historic 770-acre campus in Marin County offers a bucolic, safe and peaceful setting.
Treatment includes individual and family therapy and rehabilitative or therapeutic services. Programs such as rapid rehousing assistance for homeless people and emergency rental assistance to prevent evictions will be provided in the new offices. We give assistance to families and individuals in the San Rafael community who are in need of food, rent, clothing and other basic necessities. We visit those needing help in the San Rafael community in their homes to ascertain their specific situation and needs. After the closing of Timothy Murphy School on June 2019, The Godmothers have ensured our special mission continues by more closely associating with St. Vincent's School for Boys. St. Vincent School for Boys are included under Catholic Charities of San Francisco; CCSF includes many human services in their "family" of charitable programs and is not a fundraising or donor-based organization for any religious institution.
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The central office of the Godmothers will remain and the involvement of volunteer participation in our programs with support, love, and generosity to the boys will be as valuable as ever. The nonprofit has been in San Rafael since 1946, providing hunger and housing crisis support programs to more than 10,000 people annually. The nonprofit had been leasing three sites for its 40-person full-time staff. Now, case managers and the nonprofit’s help desk will be under one roof, enabling the organization to streamline housing and other services for those in need. You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us using the contact form provided to you within the site structure of our website.
After years of working out of temporary offices, St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin has found a new home in the former San Rafael Pacifics’ baseball building in downtown San Rafael. This practice is based on the Gospel belief that Jesus Christ is present in the person who is in need. We believe everyone needs food, shelter, dignity and a chance for a better life – no one can do it alone. Canal AllianceServices, education and legal resources for low-income Spanish speaking immigrants in Marin.
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St. Vincent’s boys live in one of four houses, grouped by age, in a home-like setting and are supervised 24/7. If you are a person with a disability and require an accommodation to participate in a San Rafael volunteer program, requests may be made by email at least four days in advance of the event. We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions. We can assess your barriers to housing and create a personal housing plan that will allow us to work with you to remove those barriers and find a place to live. Once suitable housing is located, we may be able to help with some of the initial expenses and support you through the transition back into housing.
We can provide you with some basic items and may provide limited financial aid for critical needs. We can try to place you in temporary shelter programs, or come up with other temporary solutions. St. Vincent's makes an impact on boys and youth in our community every day. Here are our impact pages from our most recent years serving them.
Each family receives a private bedroom, bathroom, and closet. Ongoing support is important to enabling projects to continue their work, so we encourage donors to continue to contribute to projects over time. But if you must cancel your recurring donation, please notify us. You are invited to Godmothers' Teddy Bear Tea this holiday season!
Andrew Hening, project director of Opening Doors Marin, a public-private partnership to create more supportive housing in the county, works with St. Vincent’s on finding creative solutions to provide housing for homeless people. Each week in Marin County, volunteers from the Society visit people struggling to make ends meet in their homes to help them get through life’s struggles. The primary goal of these visits is to prevent homelessness. Information Security -- We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
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