Home & Hope

Home & Hope offers homeless families shelter and support while they work to regain their self-sufficiency. Each year, we provide 5,110 shelter bed nights and 15,000 meals to families across San Mateo County. We operate on the simple principle that homeless families are our guests. We engage 30 local faith congregations, whose members volunteer as hosts. Home & Hope offers overnight shelter, three daily meals, case management, mentorship, employment support, job search assistance, resume help, educational support, help with housing search, a day center for families, kitchen access, showers and bathrooms, and computer suite. We offer these free to our guests, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our unique model has a great success rate: 50% of our families have returned to permanent housing directly from our emergency shelter program, bypassing the transitional shelter step used by conventional shelter programs.