In 1998 CityTeam acquired the West Coast Peniel Mission in San Francisco,
which had been serving the needs of the poor and homeless since 1893.
CityTeam San Francisco operates four programs with comprehensive services; our
Residential Addiction Recovery program, Learning and Career Enhancement Center,
Transitional Shelter & Homeless Job Empowerment program, and Homeless/Community
Outreach program. These programs create the ideal ‘wrap around effect’
for the client, offering such services as meals, food boxes, shelter, counseling, case
management, education, job preparation, recovery from drug and alcohol addictions,
foot-washing, medical and dental treatment, clothing giveaways, and breast cancer
awareness education for women.
Our Residential Recovery Program for 17 men suffering from drug and alcohol
addiction, is a 9-12 month program that offers these men the ability to escape
the vice-grip of addiction through individual and group counseling, Alcoholics
Anonymous meetings, sexual addiction classes, anger management meetings, Bible
studies, life skills classes, education classes, career enhancement classes, and
an after care program for graduates. Our recovery program is based on the
Classic Alcoholics Anonymous Way Out Program that is client driven. To
learn responsibility, leadership, and stewardship they also are required to
work at the mission in all capacities, including dishwashing, cooking, cleaning,
etc.
This program allows men in our recovery program, as well as people in the
community, to achieve their individual learning goals with individually designed
curriculum that addresses such issues as reading comprehension, math, vocabulary,
analytical thinking, writing, and spelling. This self-paced learning program,
developed for use with the homeless, enables students to learn to function in
a job-like environmentwith set schedules, deadlines, and responsibilities, and
to achieve and maintain long term employment as a result of career enhancement
classes.
We are currently ministering to a growing number of the 4,000 people living on 6th street. We have discovering God Bible Studies in several Single Room Occupancy Hotels (SRO’s) as well as AA meetings. Our food box program includes distribution from our building, delivery to hotels, and apartment complexes. We have special events and programs to meet the needs of families such as backpack give away to school age children, special holiday food boxes. Soon we will have English as a second language as well as GED help and computer skills for the adults in the communities where we are working. The end result is to see individuals, families and whole communities transformed.
Some of the ministry highlights of this program include:
Bags of Love ministry:  Delivers Bags of Love filled with
groceries, hygiene items, and information about CityTeam to the Single Resident Occupancy hotels in
our neighborhood.
Saturday Clinic: Every Saturday from 12-3 pm we serve an
all-you-can-eat buffet, provide clothes, foot washing, and personal prayer to
the homeless, needy, and poor of our neighborhood. Every other Saturday
we provide medical access.
Project Homeless Connect:
We also partner with
Project Homeless Connect and the Mayor’s Office on Homelessness to provide
foot care services including: foot washing, clean socks, prayers,
and love at each bimonthly outreach day. We wash an average of 70 pairs of
feet on each outreach day.
The Transitional Shelter program provides a stable and safe environment and case
management for 10 chronically homeless men and graduates from our addiction recovery
program. For entrance into the transitional shelter, these men must be enrolled
in school, working, or looking for work. For those needing additional job readiness
skills and work placement assistance we offer entrance into our Homeless Job Empowerment
Program (HJEP). HJEP is a soft skills/ job readiness training program.
The HJEP program assists these individuals in achieving economic self-sufficiency and
housing by addressing the barriers most homeless people face in obtaining employment
and housing. We offer a bed with shower and laundry facilities and mail, phone,
and internet access, nutritious meals, job preparation, search and placement, resume
assistance, instruction in interview skills, computer skills classes, money management
and financial education classes, legal services, and case management for each client.
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