Dolores Street Community Services

Dolores shelter program: Dolores emergency shelter - a 108-bed emergency shelter and support Services program for homeless people in san francisco's mission district.the safe sleeping village - a temporary shelter program where guests can stay in tents within a safe outdoor environment. The program launched at the begnning of the covid-19 pandemic to provide additional housing to people living on the streets and has since continued due to its success.stay over program - a cross-sector collaboration program between san francisco unified school district, city of san francisco department of homelessness and supportive housing (hsh) and dscs located at buena vista horace mann Community school (bvhm) which connects participating families with resources and Services to help them secure a more stable housing situation.

Deportation defense & legal advocacy - a program that provides pro bono legal defense and advocacy for immigrants facing imminent deportation from the united states. The program was combined with the immigrant legal & education program in 2016, then reestablished as a separate program during the 2018 fiscal year.

Immigrant resource Community empowerment: san francisco immigrant legal and education network - 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.rapid response network - consist of 21 organizations that provide legal and education Services to immigrants living in san francisco. The primary goal of the network is to respond immediately in the event of any immigration enforcement activity.

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 provides cooperative housing for people with hiv/aids at risk of homelessness. Marty's place is managed by marty's place affordable housing corporation.

Richard m. cohen residence - a ten-bed, twenty-four-hour residential care facility for formerly homeless individuals with disabling hiv or aids that supports residents in acquiring the skills to live independently.

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 may 2023. 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 promotor model, where members from the Community have been trained to prevent and educate on a diverse range of issues from covid 19, monkeypox, and diabetes to food insecurity.

Access point - a program that provides Community residents experiencing housing insecurity with problem solving and housing navigation Services.

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.

The little market - formerly known as food hub, a large-scale food pantry which provides essential and culturally appropriate groceries for individuals and families living with food insecurity. Dscs operates the distribution as a market-style pantry on wednesdays and fridays, where members can select food items to prepare healthy and delicious meals for themselves and their families at home.

Innovative neighborhood food support - a program that helps Community residents experiencing food insecurity with access to meals and groceries. The stratgies included distributing meal vouchers to sro tenants, food distributions to the Community at-large and at casa quezada, specifically, and to upgrade equipment in the women's building and cohen's kitchens.