Our Day Center offers showers, mail services and homeless services many don’t know about
Scheck is manager of the San Diego Day Center at Father Joe’s Villages and lives in Santee. I am the manager of the San Diego Day Center at Father Joe’s Villages, where people experiencing homelessness can receive basic needs we all take for granted. Things like...
Father Joe Carroll’s empowering approach to social work has inspired me for 25 years
Bruland is the chief program officer at Father Joe’s Villages and lives in La Mesa. If you came on the Village campus in the fall of 1998, you maybe would have seen me during my once-a-month visit to San Diego. If you’ve come onto the Village campus in 2023, odds are...
Opinion: Looking for a job as a homeless person comes with obstacles. Here’s how I overcame them.
Grant is a Father Joe’s Villages’ program participant and lives in San Diego. I work at Bloomingdale’s. That’s my reality now. Here’s what it used to be: The bills are piling up and my mind is telling me everything will be OK if I could just find a job. I have job...
I ended up at the Father Joe’s shelter by accident. It led me to embrace culinary arts.
Villarberg is a Father Joe’s Villages’ program participant and lives in East Village. I came to Father Joe’s Villages by accident. My original plan was to go to Los Angeles, but God had other plans for me. Before I could carry out my big ambitions of making big in...
