InnVision - The Way Home
currently serves 13,000 individuals a year, at 17 different sites.
Yet, the agency had a very small and modest beginning.
In 1973, the growing numbers
of homeless, and individuals at risk of becoming homeless, alarmed
a small group of concerned citizens from nine churches located in
downtown San Jose. They decided to do something about it, and The
San Jose Urban Ministry was born.
At first the ministry provided
only basic needs: blankets, food, love and support. Gradually, support
expanded from the founding churches to include schools, civic groups,
foundations, and some of the most successful companies in Silicon
Valley. Today the agency operates a continuum of care that includes
emergency shelters, transitional/supportive housing, and multi-service
centers featuring life-skills training, counseling, healthcare,
child development programs, vocational training and employment services.
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