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Franciscan Workers Of Junipero Serra

Franciscan Workers Of Junipero Serra

Salinas, CA 93901
Tax ID77-0081240

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About this organization

Revenue

$2,028,011

Expenses

$2,184,742

Website

dorothysplace.org

Mission

With love, respect and compassion, Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra provides essential services and transitional support to people experiencing the injustice of homelessness and extreme poverty. No one realizes until they are here to witness it and hear testimony from the impoverished people we serve that struggle daily with chronic homelessness just how horribly inadequate, degrading, and scary life is for these people. They're here, existing moment to moment, believing in their home community, but numb from being threatened, insulted, and hassled by those that should be providing help. We're here to love and house them, and try to understand them.

About

Franciscan Workers offers five core programs in service to those suffering through homelessness: Dorothys Drop-In Center, Dorothys Kitchen, Women Alive Emergency Shelter, House of Peace Transitional Residence and the Chinatown Health Services Center(CHSC). Four core programs are housed at Dorothys Place (the facility) at 30 Soledad St and the CHSC stands at 115 E. Lake Street in Salinas, California. The mission of Franciscan Workers and the goal of Dorothys Place programs is to provide basic needs, essential services and transitional support that move people that are chronically homeless into housing. We serve clients that have multiple barriers and disabilities. Commonly, 80% of our clients require mental health or addiction intervention. In 2017, we continue to focus on basic needs, safe shelter, transitional programming and data gathering and research that not only creates an evidence base that informs our services, but also stimulates community discussion on the greatest challenge of assisting chronically homeless people into housing, that of meeting unaddressed mental health needs. The Drop-In Center is a day shelter designed to be a safe gathering place where homeless, marginalized, and others who are our clients can meet basic hygiene needs (shower & laundry), be treated at our weekly health clinic, and access other services that are geared towards helping them live with greater health and dignity (mail, phone, clothing, activities and volunteering). This year, we developed a database designed specifically to record client progress into housing as data to develop an evidence base. Our goal in data collection, analysis, and reporting is to discover root problems of chronic homelessness in our local area and bring attention to practical ways to help the chronically homeless off the street. Our research efforts indicated that trauma-informed care in healthcare organizations yielded positive results, but there was insufficient research found on trauma-informed care in the setting of social service outreach to the homeless. Franciscan Workers has been utilizing trauma-informed care for years, building relationships with our guests and clients, discovering their emotional needs, and what was keeping them from succeeding in housing. We expanded our case management capability and our research efforts by employing specific expertise that will allow us to create more effective interaction with clients, collect their data, record their progress, analyze the data and through reporting to community leaders, use the analysis to inform solutions and positive change. In 2017, we had four social workers that successfully assisted 43 chronically homeless people into housing.Women Alive: The primary objective of the Women Alive program is to create a safe, non-judgmental, nurturing space for women beginning with an emergency overnight shelter. Currently Women Alive is the only no-questions-asked emergency walk-in shelter for street women in Monterey County. We served 88 women in 2017, a reduction in services owed to the opening of an area warming shelter. Our shelter staff assisted women with housing, drug treatment referrals, mental health referrals, IDs, critical transportation, employment counseling and access to health services. Although this program operates at night, client interviews and basic data gathering and recording are accomplished by evening staff.House of Peace Transitional Residence: Program that promotes and provides safety, stability, and wellbeing for 24 adults who have experienced chronic homelessness.This program provides needed structure, access to health care, assistance with housing vouchers and supportive services, including emotional support, linkage to community resources, educational direction, financial and literacy programs, as well as assistance with benefit applications, employment readiness, and job searches. House of Peace is where we see the greatest lifestyle improvements in our clients and is the program where our data analysis and research is most effectively applied.In 2017, 19 chronically homeless residents of House of Peace graduated into permanent, sustainable housing of their own. The Chinatown Health Services Center was created to meet the medical and mental health needs of chronically homeless people encamped throughout Chinatown by bringing services to their neighborhood. Opened in October of 2016, it served more than 300 clients in 2017, with on-site medical treatment, out-patient mental health treatment, County social services, harm-reducing syringe exchange and 24/7 safe restrooms and showers(31,058 restroom visits, 17,058 showers). St. Clare's Corner is an extension pantry of the Food Bank for Monterey County, offering supplemental food for more than 260 farm worker families during the months of October through May, as well as clothing and household items.Dorothys Place also hosts a small walk-in health clinic for two hours on Wednesdays. It is staffed entirely by volunteers (licensed doctors, nurses, medical resident students and nursing students). Fundraising maintains an income for the clinic that supports prescription assistance for our clients. All services are offered at no cost to the client.

Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing

The purpose of the non-profit, as set forth in the filing, is “With love, respect and compassion, the franciscan workers of junipero serra provide essential services and transitional support to people experiencing the injustice of homelessness and extreme poverty.”.

When discussing its purpose, they were characterized as: “With love, respect and compassion, the franciscan workers of junipero serra provide essential services and transitional support to people experiencing the injustice of homelessness and extreme poverty.”.

  • The state in which the non-profit is legally authorized to operate is CA, as reported.
  • The filing confirms that the non-profit's address in 2020 was PO Box 2027, Salinas, CA, 939022027.
  • The form of the non-profit reports 68 employees as of 2020.
  • Does not operate a hospital.
  • Does not operate a school.
  • Does not collect art.
  • Does not provide credit counseling.
  • Does not have foreign activities.
  • Is not a donor advised fund.
  • Is not a private foundation.
  • Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
  • Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
  • Revenue less expenses is -$156,731.
  • The remuneration of the CEO of the organization is based on an independent review and approval process.
  • The organization has 9 independent voting members.
  • The organization was formed in 1985.
  • The organization has a written policy that addresses conflicts of interest.
  • The organization is required to file Schedule B.
  • The organization is required to file Schedule O.
  • The organization's financial statements were compiled or reviewed by an accountant.
  • The organization pays $1,528,122 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
  • The organization pays $107,322 in fundraising expenses.
  • The organization provides Form 990 to its governing body.
  • The organization has minutes of its meetings.
  • The organization has a written whistleblower policy.
  • The organization's financial statements were reviewed by an accountant.

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