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Bay Area Homelessness: The Hamilton Family Center

Mission: The Hamilton Family Center's mission is to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty. Through a Housing First approach, they provide a continuum of housing solutions and active intervention services that promote self-sufficiency for families and individuals.

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Basic Information
Social Cause: Bay Area Homelessness
Issue Area: Bay Area Homelessness

Year Founded: 1985
Problem

We need to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Solution

Hamilton Family Center is one of the largest providers of shelter, eviction prevention assistance, rapid rehousing, youth programming, and support services to homeless families in San Francisco. Through a Housing-First approach, they provide a continuum of housing solutions and hands-on services that promote self-sufficiency for families and individuals.
Impact

Shelter and Transitional Housing: Provides shelter and transitional housing to up to 70 families each night.

Essential Services: Provides essential services to over 100 recently homeless families, now living in permanent housing.

Meals: Each year they serve 100,000 meals.
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Contact Information

Website: http://www.hamiltonfamilycenter.org/
Email: ssheedy@hamiltonfamilycenter.org
Phone: 415-409-2100

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Summary: Bay Area Homelessness experts believe that The Hamilton Family Center responds well to the needs of the community and provides important services to them. They have also had consistent success in returning people to permanent housing. At the same time, in order to improve, The Hamilton Family Center should expand some of their services, collaborate with other organizations, and make various organizational improvements such as renovate their space, strengthen their leadership, and expand their donor outreach.

Strengths

Good Programs

"They are innovative in their approach; they are willing to take risks to further their mission."
"It has a housing-first emphasis, and does great collaborative work for its program."
"There is a need for the family-based shelter services they provide."

Responsive

"It continues to respond to the community’s needs."
"It has an excellent reputation and is responsive."

Good Outcomes

"It has consistent success in returning people to permanent housing."
"They have great outcomes."

Areas for Improvement

Build Additional Services

"They should build more transitional programs."
"They should continue to expand their services."
"They should help other programs offer family-based services."

Organizational Improvements

"Their space should be more homey--especially for emergency clients--it seems institutional."
"The Executive Director and Board needs strengthening; their infrastructure is not strong."
"They should expand their donor outreach and communications."

Other

"They should collaborate with other organizations not in San Francisco who are aligned in mission and purpose."
"They should understand better that "clients" are also a valuable resource. They should be better advocates to eradicate homelessness."

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