Never Miss a Chance to Do the Most Good
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SOBER LIVING, THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES.
SOLVING HOMELESSNESS, THE SALVATION ARMY WAY.
Rebuilding Lives
One Story at a Time
What is 'The Way Out'?
San Francisco is experiencing a humanitarian crisis. We’re here to deliver a solution.
Homelessness, drug addiction, and untreated mental illness is all around us. But it doesn’t have to be. The Salvation Army believes that every person who wants a way out should have it.
On any given night in San Francisco, The Salvation Army provides 750 beds in its facilities
across the City to the unhoused.
The Way Out is The Salvation Army’s ambitious initiative to add up to 1000 beds for San Francisco’s homeless population by redeveloping several of its existing properties. It is a groundbreaking, first-in-the-city program that combines stable housing with workforce training and wraparound social services to help unhoused clients who suffer from substance abuse disorder gain control over their futures, achieve economic independence, and permanently move off the streets.
What The Way Out Offers
A compassion-first model that incorporates three best practices proven to reduce clients’ recidivism by 90% over short-term treatment. To-date, 50% of clients in The Way Out Program have found their way out of homelessness.
Our approach is to provide:
PROVIDING A PROVEN PATH, FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS IT.
What We Believe
Residents should have choices and multiple options for therapy
Our programs should offer results and full transparency
Our culture should be based on mutual accountability and effective outcomes
Clients must have high expectations for themselves, each other, and the community
Not a Revolving Door
During the first 15 months of our pilot program, 86% of participants who completed the program achieved stable housing.*
*Preliminary findings
30% of SF’s total homeless population have been living on the street for more than a year.
63% of those living on the street are dealing with substance abuse issues.
60% of participants in a 60-90 day immediate addiction treatment program come from the street.
30% of SF’s total homeless population have been living on the street for more than a year.
63% of those living on the street are dealing with substance abuse issues.
60% of participants in a 60-90 day immediate addiction treatment program come from the street.
The Salvation Army is operating its pilot program, building up to 100 participants by 2024 in its Mission neighborhood location. Plans are underway for a new 250-bed facility on Harrison Street in the SOMA neighborhood by 2026.
We’re out to show that The Salvation Army has a real solution to improving homelessness in San Francisco and to create a sense of hope and rebirth when it comes to finding a way out.
The Salvation Army has been serving San Francisco’s poor and homeless since 1883.
OUR MISSION
The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Our message is based on the Bible and our ministry is motivated by the love of God. Our mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.
A top provider of addiction treatment deeply effective at transforming lives.
An unwavering policy of non-discrimination welcoming all who need help.
One of SF’s largest non-profit landowners with a broad presence across the Bay Area.
Questions?
Contact Major Matthew Madsen
Divisional Secretary for San Francisco
matthew.madsen@usw.salvationarmy.org | 415-553-3592
