Program areas at Dolores Street Community Services
Dolores shelter program - a 108-bed emergency shelter and support Services program for homeless people in san francisco's mission district.
Deportation defense & legal advocacy - provides free legal Services to individuals facing deportation
Immigrant resource Community empowerment - a network coordinated and led by dscs of thirteen agencies providing legal counseling, representation, processing, referrals, outreach, and education to san francisco's diverse immigrant communities.
Dolores hotel (dba casa quezada) - a 52-unit residential hotel, part of the city's direct access to housing (dah) program, that provides housing and support Services for formerly homeless individuals.
Mission single room occupancy collaborative - a collaboration of four agencies, coordinated and led by dscs, that provides outreach, tenant stabilization and Community programs for very low income single room occupancy (sro) tenants in the mission district.
Worker rights program - these programs economically and politically empower their members through the provision of job referrals and other basic Services, as well as engaging them in leadership development and Community organizing around issues of immigrant and worker rights.
Marty's place - a victorian home located in the mission district that, through a ground lease to the san francisco Community land trust, provides cooperative housing for people with hiv/aids at risk of homelessness.
Richard m. cohen residence - provides 24-hour attendant care in a supportive housing program to formerly homeless men and women with disabling hiv/aids.
Aid and subsidy assistance - this program provides direct cash distribution or rental assistance to san francisco residents. This aid is only made available through funding from foundations intended as direct financial support or rental subsidies from government entities.
Casa quezada - this is the supportive Services portion of the Dolores hotel.
Casa esperanza and mission inn - two transition-age youth (tay) permanet supportive housing facilities. Dscs has been working with mission housing and larkin Street youth Services to plan, develop, build out, and make ready the two facilities for tenant move-ins starting in august 2022. Casa esperanza is located in the mission district and mission inn is located in the outer mission/excelsior area.
Community wellness - this program is based on a promotores model, where members from the Community have been trained to prevent and educate on a diverse range of issues from covid 19 and diabetes to food insecurity.
Access point - a program that provides Community residents experiencing housing insecurity with problem solving and housing navigation Services. The program is currently operating out of one of dscs's current leased spaces, plaza adelante, and will open its own program offices in november 2022 at a storefront on mission Street.
Tenant rights counseling - this program provides Services to tenants from across the city but with a focus on the mission district. The program will focus on eviction prevention and educate tenants on their rights, help to provide them with documentation to keep for their records and share with landlords, and to refer them to other Community resources, including housing attorneys, where applicable.
Equity pilot co-op - this program helps Community members with limited income-earning potential to establish a worker-owned co-operative business. This incubator program mostly focused on planning and development in fy21-22 and will work directly next year with Community members to establish the business.