We are excited to celebrate the Shepherd’s Gate building expansion, adding three two-bedroom cottage apartments, a laundry facility and pantry addition to serve program graduates at their Brentwood California campus.
Shepherd’s Gate is a faith-based nonprofit with more than 40 years of programmatic experience. Shepherd’s Gate has helped over 15,000 women and children find recovery and hope from trauma situations. The women who come to Shepherd’s Gate have experienced poverty, homelessness, aging out of foster care, trafficking, addiction and domestic violence.
“These families have suffered different traumas in their lives; poverty, homelessness, aging out of foster care, sex trafficking, addiction and domestic violence. Over 84% of our Shepherd’s Gate graduates, after one year, can support themselves with permanent housing and sobriety while working or attending college,” said Carol Patterson, CEO of Shepherd’s Gate. “Our graduates become active members of the community and continue to live a sober life with new skills learned at Shepherd’s Gate.”
The new cottages will support program alumni graduates who have found stable employment or are attending college. Allowing graduates an additional six to nine months to work on their sobriety, legal cases and child reunification while staying on campus and freeing up additional beds to accept new families that are currently on the wait list for treatment.The expanded program will give children the opportunity to remain in the same school as they continue to receive support services while they heal.
“We are so grateful to HomeAid Northern California and Shea Homes for making this dream a reality to help us extend our program to provide more safe housing and supportive services for women and children in extreme need,” said Patterson.
HomeAid would like to thank our incredibly generous construction team including Builder Captain Shea Homes, SDG Architects, CBG Engineering, vanderToolen Associates, Vizion Utility Partners and Advanced Engineering Solutions for their support of this important project and all of the trades and contractors who donated labor and materials to complete the project construction at 40% of the market rate cost.
HomeAid Northern California builds and renovates multi-shelter units for homeless families and individuals so they can rebuild their lives. As the charity arm of the building industry, HomeAid’s work is made possible through the generosity of homebuilders, their trade partners, financial institutions and people just like you.
By Crisand Giles. She is the Executive Director of HomeAid Northern California. For more information or to get involved please visit www.homeaidnc.org
