CENTRAL CITY HOSPITALITY HOUSE
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Mission Statement
For more than 50 years, Hospitality House has been a progressive, community-based organization located in San Francisco’s Tenderloin Neighborhood, Sixth Street Corridor, and Mid-Market Area. Our organization combines direct services to meet basic needs, civic engagement opportunities to strengthen community and opportunities for creative expression to foster cultural enrichment. Our six distinct programs are rooted in a peer-based model and grounded in harm reduction philosophy, i.e., those who lead our programs reflect the diversity of those who utilize our programs, and our priority is reducing behaviors harmful to the individual and the community - without judgment - by offering options that encourage healthful choices.
About This Cause
Hospitality House was founded in Spring 1967 as the Tenderloin neighborhood was emerging as a safe haven for thousands of LGBT youth fleeing oppressive homes and communities, seeking acceptance and belonging. San Francisco had little community-based capacity to support ever-increasing numbers of impoverished youth, even as the burgeoning gay rights movement had key watershed events in the City’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Concerned community volunteers decided to start Central City Hospitality House, beginning with a simple drop-in space offering a safe refuge for homeless youth. As poverty and homelessness emerged as national crises, Hospitality House strengthened its response and evolved into a full-fledged anchor institution serving low-income residents, both housed and unhoused, with a commitment to social change. Today, Hospitality House operates six programs at four locations in three core communities and serves community residents struggling with poverty, homelessness, and other barriers that limit opportunity and self-determination. Hospitality House provides community-based solutions to community challenges facing our neighborhoods, drawing guidance and relevant program design from those with lived experience of poverty and homelessness. The Tenderloin Self-Help Center and Sixth Street Self-Help Center are behavioral health-based community drop-in centers that provide a range of emergency and support services using a low-threshold, peer-based, self-help model, as well as on-site, harm reduction-based. individual and group therapy. These two innovative centers reach thousands of low-income residents each year. Hospitality House’s Shelter Program is one of the City’s oldest, housed in the same location for nearly 40 years. The Shelter Program is a small men’s dormitory that provides basic emergency shelter as well as one-on-one case management for up to thirty men, 365 nights a year. Founded in 1969, the Community Arts Program is the City’s only free fine arts studio and gallery space for low-income and homeless artists, celebrating art as a vehicle for social change. Neighborhood artists hone their skills through tailored workshops, as well as create, house, and sell artwork, with frequent opportunities to exhibit their work to a growing citywide audience and keep 100% of the proceeds from art sales. These elements help make the Community Arts Program a unique social enterprise, and a viable economic asset for the city of San Francisco. The Community Building Program is a hub for civic engagement and community building, volunteerism, and a trauma-informed leadership development program. We offer skills-building in community organizing for residents to actively participate in social change – each year nearly 400 residents participate in at least one civic event. The Employment Program offers job readiness services, employment and training resources, and job search support through two neighborhood-based employment resources centers. Last year alone, more than 250 low-income residents obtained gainful employment. All programs work together to provide a range of support, resources, and opportunities for people to achieve stability, and contribute to positive community change.