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Welcome to San Francisco Homeless Resource
a resource directory that anyone can edit
1,018 articles since December 2006
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Basic Instructions for finding services:
1. Click on List All Pages or Categories in the menu above this line. This will give you access to the agencies and services if you know their name.
or 2. Type in the agency name or service in the search box below, or use google by clicking below the search box.
Simple Search
For a more thorough search of content, use
Google's "site search".
Add your search terms after site:sfhomeless.wikia.com.
San Francisco Homeless Resource is a collaborative website for homeless advocates, providers, government and others in San Francisco. The wiki is a new evolution of how all parties helping the homeless can get together and share information efficiently and quickly.
The site can be updated by any user, so everyone can add and update information -- allowing much greater efficiency in serving the homeless community in San Francisco.
Check out the Frequently Asked Questions page to learn more about how to be a part of the wiki!
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* NEW HOMELESS WIKI SISTER SITE - ALAMEDAHOMELESS.NET! A logo and link have been added to the bottom of SFHomeless.net's main page showing that we have a new Sister Site Homeless Wiki in AlamedaHomeless.net! The site is still under construction as of June 1, 2010, and we are looking for volunteers to build the site, add content, and be part of the beginning of this important new resource. If you are interested, please contact David Beall.
* SFHOMELESS.NET IS NOW AD FREE! Beginning May 6, 2010, SFHomeless.net is being hosted without ads! We hope that this change will allow users at concerned agencies to contribute more freely, or permit their employees to use SFHomeless.net without breaking any internal internet usage policies. Enjoy!
* IMPORTANT WORK NEEDED! This story has just appeared in the Oakland press regarding local children and sex trafficking. We need to build up our resources to give SF and Bay Area social workers the best resources to help these victims. Currently we are using the Category Prostitution Recovery, but we are open to any suggestions to build the wiki into whatever is needed. Perhaps a new YOUTH SERVICES template featured on the Main Page to help organize?
* NEW CATEGORY! Users have requested a new category/page for identifying non-profits that might have Volunteer Opportunities. Please feel free to update pages on SFHomeless.net where the agency does have such opportunities, and add this category to that agency page.
* PARTY PICTURES! Here is the link to the pictures from our SFHomeless.net Three Year Anniversary Party on January 21, 2010! Thank you Jimmy Wales for being our special guest! And thank you to everyone who came out to support our wiki!
* SFHOMELESS.NET IN THE NEWS! Craig Newmark of Craigslist has some nice things to say about our wiki! Craig is an internet pioneer, so maybe he can recognize great web sites!
* NEW! Story from the SF Public Press 11-26-09 describing a new program to help Veterans
* NEW HOMELESS WIKI! Tampa Bay has followed SF and LA and launched their homeless wiki! Here is a link to their wiki. The St. Petersburg Times has an article describing the site. Tampa Bay has also been added to our Sister Sites at the bottom of SFHomeless.net's main page.
* STATS UPDATE! The folks at Wikia have disabled the stats viewing systemwide for all wikis due to server overload. If you have been looking for them based on previous instructions and can't find them, that's why. They hope to resolve the issue someday, but it may not been soon (as of Sept 09). FYI--the SFHomeless.net stats were averaging 1,000 hits/day before the stats went offline.
* NEW WIKI! Our sister site LAHOMELESS.ORG has officially launched! Check it out! Let's spread the news to other cities to get a homeless resources wiki in every town. Contact David Beall if you want to be the next city.
* NEW FACEBOOK GROUP! - SFHomeless.net Homeless Resource Wiki Facebook Group - We will use this Facebook group to promote SFHomeless.net. Please join and tell people you know who would be interested in joining.
* NEW PROJECT! - A new page has been created Housing Category Reorganization Project 2009 to describe the changes that will be made in the near future to the housing listings on SFHomeless.net. The administrators and hopefully some dedicated volunteers from the public will scour all the existing housing pages, and add new categories to make it easier for people to find appropriate housing and shelter. The old categories will remain in place for archival needs, but new categories will hopefully bring more users to SFHomeless.net so they can get the help they need.
* NEW PAGE! Help for Non-Profits and CBOs -- we're trying to collect good ideas and money saving tips and grant opportunities. Please add anything you know to the page that can help other agencies that are struggling.
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SF Bar Association, Volunteer Legal Services (VLSP),
Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) Resource Manual, 2010 Edition
SFHomeless.net Wiki Updates Project
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The 2010 HAP Manual has many changes that are not currently part of SFHomeless.net. The question is whether the wiki or the manual contains the most up to date information.
The most efficient way to ensure the wiki has the best information is to add the 2010 HAP Manual text into its respective wiki agency page under a new section “2010 HAP Manual”. It will then be up to future wiki users to determine whether and how to update the agency page with the new information. A “Needs Clean Up” category will be added to pages with new 2010 text added to them.
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When a user has finished the clean up task for an agency, the user should
(1) remove the 2010 section, and
(2) remove the Clean Up category, and
(3) remove this 2010 HAP template.
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| Percent of 2010 HAP Manual added to SFHomeless.net: _ 0%
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| Number of Agencies needing 2010 Clean Up: _ approx 500
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| Category: Needs Clean Up
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We have received lots of feedback from all of you saying how much you love SFHomeless.net! But this site isn't about us making some changes here and there, but about you coming forth with your knowledge and wisdom and sharing it!!
Wish 1: More people pressing EDIT on the top of the agency page they're visiting -- and then adding useful info, or new info, or changed info, etc.!
Wish 2: Please contribute to the How Do You - Main Portal. In it you the expert share with others how to do something that you probably explain to others all day long anyway. I hear from people all the time how they don't know common procedures, and don't know where to go to get some info. PLEASE HELP by writing down the answers to these questions and then you might not have to answer them on phone so much because this page will turn into this great resource that people will naturally check first before calling you!
Wish 3: Please contribute to the newly created Homelessness Policy Overview page. There is so much policy angst in this City with all the different approaches to all the different areas of how we help the homeless, that we need a place to write it all down to properly educate ourselves. And not just for the provider community but the public too. They need a place beside the media to get arguments for-and-against these different proposals that seem to come out every week.
Wish 4: Another plea for Wish 1. It's easy to EDIT info on a page. Click on EDIT on the top of every page and a Word-like page opens up, and you change the info as easy a editing a Word doc. Then press SAVE. You're done. Easy. You've contributed! Thank you!
Wish 5: Please contribute to the newly created Neighborhood Portal Project. This is going to be awesome when it's done. All we need are volunteers to help add Neighborhood categories to existing agency pages. Then one day soon someone needing a service in their neighborhood can click and get help because a client is more willing to go some place local to them instead of going into the Tenderloin or Civic Center where a lot of services seem to be congested.
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| SFHomeless.net's new Portal for answering basic questions for how to help the homeless!
---> How Do You - Main Portal <---
How do you get into a shelter? How do you get benefits? How do you get into supportive housing?
Community edited and supported, and still needs expert contributions to the answers. Please help!
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| Sit-Lie Resource
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Legal Opinion: O'Melveny & Myers / Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights,
"Review of Current Laws Regulating Public Safety on San Francisco Sidewalks" May 7, 2010
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| Media: SFHomeless.net's Media Page
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| Web: Stand Against Sit Lie | Coalition's Sit-Lie page | Sidewalks Are for People
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| Also see Calendar events listed at bottom on main page
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Newsom's Sit-Lie Law:
Filed June 15, 2010 for the General Election November 2, 2010
"In the City and County of San Francisco, during the hours between seven (7:00) a.m. and eleven (11:00) p.m., it is unlawful to sit or lie down upon a public sidewalk, or any object placed upon a public sidewalk." (some exceptions, like baby in a stroller, medical emergency, permanent chair)
First offense: a fine between $50 and $100 and/or community service;
Second offense within 24 hours: a fine between $300 and $500, and/or community service, or 10 days in Jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Subsequent offense within 120 days of previous conviction: a fine between $400 and $500, and/or community service, or 30 days in Jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Copy of Proposed Law
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SAN FRANCISCO HOMELESS RESOURCE
SFHOMELESS.NET
a Network for SF Homeless (Providers & Advocates)
Welcome! The final agencies from the HAP Manual have been uploaded, and now it's time for the community to start using the resources, and to improve them. We want this site to be a new level of service for the homeless by providing greater knowledge in a more efficient way. The potential for the site and its uses is limitless, and we hope to use the larger wiki community and its resources to add more to SFHOMELESS.NET in the future. If you have any ideas or suggestions to add new features, please contact the administrators.
Thank you.
About this Site and Staff | Site Guidelines and HelpForum:Site Feedback and Comments | SFHomeless.net Press Release 1-30-07
COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS
COH is a leading homeless advocacy agency in San Francisco. Check their wiki page or web site for a description of their services.Click here to read the COH blog with commentary and news. BLOG
Weekly workgroups at 468 Turk:
- Civil Rights, Mondays from 12:00-2:00
- Families and Immigrants, Mondays at 12:00
- Housing First for Families campaign committee, Thursdays at 12:00
- Right to a Roof, Wednesdays at 3:00 Also check the Street Sheet for updates and news.
Coalition's wiki page
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING NETWORK
DATE CHANGE!!!
The Supportive Housing Network (SHN) meets every 3rd Thursday, 3-5pm, at the Dorothy Day Community Room located at 54 McAllister.
- Next meeting: TBA. SHN is a network made up of direct service providers, resident leaders and property managers in Supportive Housing in SF. Our goal is to increase education on SH issues in efforts to lower the rates of evictions in SF’s Supportive Housing. We have a training component at each of our meetings—usually a speaker invited to share their expertise on a related topic.
Supportive Housing Network wiki page
TEN YEAR PLAN IMPLEMENTATION COUNCIL
The TYPIC monitors the City's Ten Year Plan to End Homeless and works with government agencies, the Local Homeless Coordinating Board, and other groups and the public to ensure that the directives of the plan are being implemented. The council meets at quarterly meetings with the Policy Cluster, LHCB, and Shelter Monitoring Committee. As of 2008 the council meets quarterly and its meeting place is usually Room 305 at City Hall.
The Council's meeting schedule is not set in advance, and when they meet there is usually short notice. We will try to post meeting dates when we learn them, or you can contact the Council staff person Ali Schlageter for more info.
San Francisco Ten Year Plan Implementation Council wiki page
BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM
HOMELESS ADVOCACY PROJECT
RESOURCE MANUAL
LOCAL HOMELESS COORDINATING BOARD
Meeting Schedule:
- Full Board, TBA (usually first Monday of month), 11:00-1:00, at 170 Otis, Born Auditorium
- Policy Committee, TBA, 11:00-12:30, 1440 Harrison, 2nd or 3rd floor conf rm
- Funding Committee, TBA, 10:00-12:00, 1440 Harrison, 2nd or 3rd floor conf rm
The Local Homeless Coordinating Board is the lead entity for the San Francisco Continuum of Care. The Local Board works to ensure a unified homeless strategy that is supported by the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, City departments, nonprofit agencies, people who are homeless or formerly homeless and the community at large. All efforts are aimed at permanent solutions, and the range of services is designed to meet the unique and complex needs of individuals who are threatened with or currently experiencing homelessness.
LHCB wiki page
SAN FRANCISCO HOMELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS' NETWORK
Service providers and advocates meet from 10:00 A.M. through Noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month to network, discuss issues, and confront challenges facing the homeless community. We meet in the Program Room of the lovely CHP Arnett Watson Apartments at 650 Eddy Street between Polk and Larkin. Please ring the buzzer to be let in and sign in at the front desk.
Upcoming Meetings
August 19, 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon. Brian Dobbs from the Veterans Administration will be presenting on the Obama Administration's Five Year Plan to End Homelessness and the CHALENG program.
September 16, 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon. Ed Doonan will be presenting on Benefits Management Corporation / Living in Familiar Environments, A Representative Payee Services Company.
October 21, 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon.
November 18, 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon.
December 16, 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon.
Chair, Ben Graff bengraff@gmail.com
SFHSPN also maintains a discussion group for regular e-mail communications.
To join, send an e-mail to sfshell@pacbell.net
Joining and Using SFHSPN's discussion group
PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT
- PHC 35, location TBD, Sept. 29, 2010
- PHC 36, Veteran's, location TBD, Nov. 11, 2010
- PHC 37, TBD, Dec. 8, 2010
TBD = to be determined
Check web site for date changes and updates! PHC Web site
SHELTER MONITORING COMMITTEE
The Shelter Monitoring Committee provides the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, the Local Homeless Coordinating Board, the public, and any other appropriate agency with accurate, comprehensive information about the conditions in and operations of shelters and resource centers. The 13-member body meets monthly to hear concerns and suggestions about City-funded shelters and resource centers and conducts announced and unannounced site visits.
The Shelter Monitoring Committee has changed the day and place of their meetings in 2010!! They now meet on the Third Wednesday of the month at City Hall, and in a different room, Room 408. Please post for clients and members of the public. Committee Meetings begin at 10:00 AM. For more information about the meeting or to request a copy of the agenda, please call 415.255.3642.
- August 18, 2010
- September 15, 2010
- October 20, 2010
- November 17, 2010
- December 15, 2010
Shelter Monitoring Committee wiki page
DOCUMENTATION
PDF or link to many popular handouts, brochures, training material, and misc literature used by the homeless and advocate community. Documentation Page
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Click here to add or modify these listings.
August 11, 25, 26
Radio broadcast and two public presentations by author of a new book about the homeless in San Francisco
In Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders, author Teresa Gowan vividly depicts the lives of homeless men in San Francisco and analyzes the influence of the homelessness industry on the streets, in the shelters, and on public policy. This powerful ethnography makes clear that the way we talk about issues of extreme poverty has real consequences for how we address this problem-and for the homeless themselves.
Teresa Gowan ia acheduled to talk about her book on KPFA FM 94.1 on Wednesday morning, August 11 between 8:30 AM. and 9 AM.
Presentation on Wednesday, August 25th, 6-7.30 PM, at University Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704, ph: (510) 548-0585
Presentation on Thursday, August 26 at Modern Times Bookstore, 7pm at 888 Valencia St. @ 20th.
San Francisco.
August 17, 2010
YOUTH RALLY TO END HOUSING ABUSES
Youth Housing Advocates speak out on housing issues and present solutions to the community in an effort to win fair housing. San Francisco, CA Tuesday, August 17, 2010-- Housing abuse goes up during hard economic times. Job losses, foreclosures, and fear for the future put tremendous stress on community organizations and property managers. Unfortunately, those stresses are taken out on vulnerable members of our human family...the youth. YHA believes that it is the responsibility of all Americans to participate in housing abuse prevention in their communities. There are things that you can do to help youth who are in danger.
YHA and the clients of CYHI will help the public become aware of the current issues facing homeless youth at the Perramount Hotel as well as present solutions to ensure safe and fair housing.
About the Youth Housing Advocates
Our mission is to ensure that every youth housed in city-funded programs will learn about their rights, are protected and are able to make improvements for themselves and their communities. We encourage clients to become representatives of their programs by providing them methods to empower themselves and support their efforts to organize fair housing campaigns. The Co-Founder of YHA, Devyn Pleasants, is available for interviews.
Contact: Devyn Pleasants, Media Liaison www.youthhousingadvocates.wordpress.com -- youthhousingadvocates@gmail.com (617) 816-3717 (cell) SFYHA, 2047 15th St,San Francisco, CA
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