Monthly Update for SFC Volunteer Community
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After this month, the Volunteer Newsletter will be going on pause for the summer. The newsletter will continue Fall 2022!
Following the announcement of the city's updated mandate for shelters, masks are again required for all volunteers, guests, and staff of the St. Francis Center (SFC).
SFC's Safe Outdoor Space (SOS) at Regis University is moving locations! On July 1 the Regis residents will be moved to a new location at 2nd and Federal in the Barnum Neighborhood in west Denver. We are looking for volunteers to help tear down the old site and help build the new one (click on the links to sign up!). You can read more about the upcoming site here. Or, check out this FAQ page with more details!
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(Resident at SFC's Safe Outdoor Space)
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The 2nd and Federal SOS location will be home to the SOS residents until construction begins for St. Francis Center's newest affordable housing project! St. Francis West Apartments will provide 60 units of Senior Housing. Funding for the project is still being finalized, but foundational support by the City and County gives us hope for significant funding supports from a diverse group of sources including tax credits and other public sector players. Construction is scheduled to begin in June of 2023 and will take approximately one year.
Huge thank you to everyone who participated in the 2022 PATH Luncheon! Thanks to the generosity of SFC donors, $70,000 was raised for the upcoming St. Francis Center West Apartments!
The Denver Department of Housing Stability (HOST) released the final numbers for the recent housing surge. You can read more about the surge here. Below are the final number of Households leased up during February 1 - May 11:
- Households = 359
- Individuals = 597
- Unsheltered = 90
- Sheltered = 252
Thank you for the many ways you continue to support the mission of St. Francis Center. Without you, this life saving work would not be possible!
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This Month from JEDI
The JEDI committee wants to take a moment to acknowledge the racially motivated shooting in Buffalo, NY that occurred over this past weekend in which 10 people were killed and three were injured. We are angry, heartbroken, and grieving. We are also emboldened to encourage all of us at St. Francis Center to keep doing the critical work of identifying our implicit biases and how we each participate in systems of oppression that harm our Black friends, family members and community members.
Please take some time to read this article, highlighting a response by Buffalo's poet laureate Jillian Hanesworth. Her words are powerful, honest, and important for us to hear.
We also want to take a moment to grieve the students and teachers who were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. It is hard to put words to such a horrific tragedy. Our hearts are with the parents and families who lost their loved ones.
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