Never Miss a Chance to Do the Most Good
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Never Miss a Chance to Do the Most Good
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A Recovery-Focused Homeless Initiative
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 housing to 750 people who are unstably housed or struggling with addiction.
Providing a Proven Path. For Anyone Who Wants It.
Our Impact in San Francisco
700
Housed Each Night
221,837
Days Reduced Homelessness
453
Received Drug Treatment
Harbor Light Recovery Wellness Center
The Salvation Army’s Harbor Light Recovery Wellness Center is often the first step toward transformation. As a client-centered social model detox and stabilization center the program offers immediate access to care via Treatment on Demand, stabilization, and withdrawal management.
Harbor Light Residential Drug Treatment
The Harbor Light Residential Drug Treatment Program emphasizes therapeutic community values, accountability, recovery-based lifestyle, and adaptive coping strategies. The six-month program offers an evidence-based curriculum focusing on whole-person care and overall lifestyle changes, not simply abstinence from drug use. Upon program completion, participants will possess a strong recovery foundation, paving the way for a successful transition to the Joseph McFee Center.
Women’s Adult Rehabilitation Center
The Salvation Army’s Women’s Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) is a six-month, faith-based, women’s recovery program. Through a holistic approach, the ARC serves as a beacon of hope to people seeking help for any number of social and life issues, and focuses on the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of participants.
Joseph McFee Center
The Joseph McFee Center is a pilot project expanding access to long-term, recovery-focused, transitional housing for San Franciscans exiting residential treatment. The two-year program offers onsite supportive services and case management, connections to workforce development opportunities, and cultivates a transformative community based on the principles of recovery, accountability, and service. It fosters lifelong change by promoting positive values and behaviors through peer interaction, instruction, and community service.
Railton Place
The Railton Place Extended Transitional Housing program offers graduates of the Joseph McFee Center who are stably employed an additional two years of sober housing in a supportive environment. Participants live in individual apartments and are required to engage in onsite case management, recovery support groups in the community, and The Way Out’s Alumni Support Network.
Culinary Training Academy
The Culinary Training Academy (CTA) is a 10-week course led by Chef Timothy Tucker. The program teaches knife skills, food terminology, kitchen safety standards, recipes, effective work performance, and ServSafe Food Manager Certification. Students will receive life coaching, job placement support, resume building, interview skills, work clothes, and a professional knife set.
Alumni Support Network
The Alumni Support Network provides ongoing support and community building opportunities for individuals who have transitioned from the Joseph McFee Center to independent living. The Alumni Support Network fosters a sense of community and understanding among peers who share similar experiences. It provides a platform for mutual encouragement, resource sharing, mentorship opportunities, career guidance, and social gatherings and outings.
Who We Are and What We Believe
The Salvation Army has been serving San Francisco’s poor and homeless since 1883. A top provider in recovery services, the Army is bringing its expertise to give those struggling with addiction The Way Out.
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.
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Questions?
Contact Steve Adami
Executive Director, The Way Out
steve.adami@usw.salvationarmy.org | 415-608-8595
