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If you are interested in supporting St. Francis Center through a Sponsorship, please contact Andrew Spinks: andrew@sfcdenver.org
Our Event
Our Event
Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 11:30a.m.
PPA Events Center - 2105 Decatur Street, Denver, CO 80211
We hope you will join us!
R.S.V.P. by May 15, 2025
PATH Lunch 2025
PATH Lunch 2025
Our theme for this year’s PATH lunch is “Caring for our Neighbors – Housing as the starting point for community integration and healing following homelessness.”
We hope to focus on the resources needed to help people regain a sense of community and belonging. Within this focus we want to explore how “being with” a person on the journey creates a more healing and trusting environment rather than “fixing” or “placing” people in housing as the end and only result of the process out of homelessness.
Housing First is a broad philosophical and evidence-based approach that includes tools and practices founded from decades of experience of walking alongside people who are homeless or who have had mental health challenges to regain stability, health and their sense of being a valued and respected member of society.
These concepts increase in importance as a person ages. In the SFA West program, we will support people aged 55 and older, most who have a life-long struggle to maintain stability and the resources they need to remain housed. Following our luncheon, the guests will be invited to participate in a tour of the SFA West housing program.
Valerie's Story
Valerie's Story
Valerie started coming to SFC 17 years ago. Valerie has been unsheltered for the entirety of the time she has been utilizing Day Center services. She has been living on the streets in the Curtis Park neighborhood for as long as staff can remember. The Day Center is her safe place and “sense of place” from open to close, 7 days a week, year in and year out. Valerie suffers with observable mental health disabilities which makes it difficult for her to navigate the everyday world. Valerie uses all the Day Center services when she visits, including hygiene support, and storage. Most importantly, she is shown much grace from other guests in the Center who represent her community and are patient with her mental health challenges. Although she is service resistant to long term case management, she has built rapport through the years with one particular outreach support navigator and this relationship has been leveraged to obtain housing with the Cornerstone Residences at St. Francis Center which is a remarkable outcome. In fact, the only reason she was convinced of obtaining housing is due to the proximity of the Day Center which she will continue to visit and maintain community going forward. We hope that Valerie can maintain her housing and progress to even greater levels of self-sufficiency.
Sponsors
Sponsors
If you are interested in supporting St. Francis Center through a Sponsorship, please contact Andrew Spinks: andrew@sfcdenver.org