DID YOU KNOW…
FAMILIES MAKE UP 37% OF THE HOMELESS POPULATION?
52% OF HOMELESS CHILDREN ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 5?
MORE THAN 2.5 MILLION CHILDREN ARE HOMELESS EACH YEAR IN AMERICA.
FAMILIES ARE THE FASTEST GROWING SEGMENT OF THE HOMELESS POPULATION?
November 4, 2021
St. Mary’s Shelter’s 40+ year old, 6,090 square foot roof needs to be replaced! The cost to replace our roof is $100,000. Please consider supporting our “Rai$e For The Roof” project. Your support will provide a safe, dry home […]
Read MoreOctober 12, 2021
Here are some photos of St. Mary's new Transitional Housing Apartments, now open to serve the needs of our community.
Read MoreOctober 5, 2021
Executive Director of St. Mary’s, Sr. Bernadette Dougherty, SSJ, delivered brief remarks at the ribbon cutting event for the new Transitional Housing Apartments. Sr. Bernadette highlighted the history of St. Mary’s Shelter, why transitional housing was needed, how it […]
Read MoreSeptember 27, 2021
On Thursday, September 23, 2021, St. Mary’s Franciscan Shelter held a ribbon cutting event to formally open their new Transitional Housing Apartments. Located on the grounds of its existing emergency homeless family shelter, St. Mary’s converted a former schoolhouse into […]
Read Moreof Chester County’s approximately 100 homeless families.
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