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Saint Francis House is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, daytime shelter, primarily for the homeless, located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, and founded in the early 1980s. It is the largest daytime shelter in New England and serves as an early model of such a center.
St. Francis House was dedicated in 1984. The center began hiring a professional staff providing clothing, psychological services, and nursing care as well. St. Francis House has since created its own board of directors and is a separate non-profit, but the friars and the Shrine have still remained connected with the people and the work there.
Groeschel was Chairman of St. Francis House and the Good Counsel Homes. He was on the board of Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida, and was a member of the American Psychological Association. He was also involved with the Padre Pio Shelter, St. Anthony Residence, St. Francis Youth Center, [16] and St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center in ...
FALL RIVER — The residents at an illegal rooming house at 234 Tripp St. where a man was stabbed to death on March 15 were placed there by St. Francis House, the Boston-based agency that assists ...
The center's operating budget was $1.1 million in 2008, and 22 paid staff plus more than 350 volunteers served thousands of clients. Because of the transient circumstances of many of the people who seek the center's help, an exact number of clients is impossible to gauge.
The St Francis House Project, "History & Legacy of St Francis House: A Home for Inland Children", was established in 2018 to document the history of the home. [13] A film about St Francis House and its founds Percy Smith and his wife Isabel Smith is being made by director Mark Webber. The film is called Finding Miss Almond. [14]
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