St Francis Center

SFC serves homeless individuals and families living in Los Angeles. Last year, SFCs staff and volunteers served over 140,000 meals to homeless guests through our warm, nutritious breakfast served on site six days a week. We also had over 44,000 visits to our drive-thru pantry program. Additionally, through our onsite shower program and our mobile shower partner, the CARE team through the City of LA, we provided 1,900 showers to our guests. Our program provides homeless guests with warm meals and sack lunches, health and hygiene services, and resource services including case management. SFCs breakfast program offers sit-down and to-go options. Breakfast program guests receive their meals in compostable and sustainable packaging in order to reduce trash in our community.

SFC benefits the extremely low-income families and individuals living in the neighborhoods surrounding SFC near downtown Los Angeles. Our pantry program is available four days a week through walk-up or drive-through which allowed us to continue safely serving our community in need. Traditionally, the Pantry Service has served parents, children, individuals, seniors, veterans, and disabled members of the South Park, Garment District, Pico Union and North University Park neighborhoods of Los Angeles. SFCs goal is to continue to meet the increased need for food in our community for as long as necessary through our served meal program, on-site pantry, satellite and pop-up pantry programs across LA, and by delivering our pantry directly to vulnerable guests through our partnership with Doordash. We aim to facilitate healthy living by directing our guests to available resources. This includes case management and resources that can assist with health and human service needs, which in turn will reduce stress and increase awareness of available opportunities. Achieving these objectives will lead to less homelessness and a greater likelihood for families and individuals to improve their situation and well-being.