I pick myself up, moving a little more slowly than pre-COVID, and I keep putting one foot in front of the other.

At 52, if you thought I might be getting to old for this, slowing down, or growing quieter, nope. I am just hitting my stride. Join us in caring MORE.

2021 Annual Report - Looking back at a year of impact with our 16 partner organizations depicts a solid story of might.

I choose optimism and love over fear and despair. I choose to pursue equal shelter and housing opportunity for all.

This work of "ending homelessness" is filled experiences. Life and death. Sickness and health. Regression and progression. Humanity.

When you see an unhoused, unsheltered person please make eye contact and ask them their name, see their strength and recognize their humanity.

It's beautifully simple. We can end homelessness by changing the systems that create and maintain homelessness.

Our first glance of fiscal year data (July 2020 through June 2021) is that more than 12,000 unduplicated individuals visited the Human Services Campus and received at least one service.

We've been busy with COVID, monsoons, fiscal year end, DOJ, and sending peace to those in need. We carry on. Heads down, focused on the work, doing the day to day, and pushing for systems change, taking the high road.

This coming Sunday marks one year since our champion, Mike McQuaid passed away due to COVID. I still expect him to walk through the door of my office. He would say "you got a minute?" And dang, it still hurts.