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.
Since CityTeam has so many clients that are homeless, low-income, or from the
SRO hotels within a few blocks of our mission, we have a number of outreach
ministries that focus on caring for and ministering to these underprivileged and
marginalized neighbors. Many of these people will never step inside
CityTeam’s door or seek help elsewhere, so it is our mission to seek them
out. The Homeless/ Community Outreach Program provides hot meals, food boxes,
clothing, medical access, foot-washing, women’s breast cancer awareness
education and screening, community Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, hotel Bible
studies, and participation in Project Homeless Connect.
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 SRO 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.
Hotel Bible ministry:There are more than 10 hotels in our
immediate vicinity with SRO (single room occupancy) rooms that contain people who
will probably never see the inside of a church. Our Hotel Team is currently
providing Bible studies once a week to three SRO hotels.
Avon Women’s Breast Cancer Awareness program:  In 2004,
we started our Avon Breast Cancer Awareness education, screening,
case management, and other essential care for low-income and homeless women in the
Sixth Street area. It takes place as a bi-monthly ‘Ladies Day’
on Fridays. We invite these women to enjoy a restaurant style lunch, shop for
used clothing, watch a movie, and receive breast cancer awareness education and
screening. Based on screening information, we assist those women who need
mammograms, pap smears, and a basic medical check ups in receiving the services
they need at the Tom Waddell Center. We schedule their appointment, take
them to it, and accompany them through the entire process.
Project Homeless Connect:
We alsopartner with
Project Homeless Connect and the Mayor’s Office on Homelessness to provide
our spirit-filled foot care ministry which involves 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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