It takes a family to house a family
Recruiting, cultivating, and retaining qualified and inspired frontline workers are essential to Hamilton Families’ mission to end family homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area. The increasing number of families without housing, skyrocketing levels of domestic and community violence, and a growing demand for affordable housing have presented service providers like us with incredible challenges. Even though great strides have been made to address homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area, the social service sector’s high turnover rate significantly impacts service delivery, making it difficult for us serve the most vulnerable families in our communities.
Without staff, homeless service providers cannot function.
Hamilton Families sees an opportunity to invest in our most valuable asset—our staff—who are deeply committed to housing and helping families in our communities. As part of our strategic plan, we are building a robust workforce by refining our recruitment and retention strategies, creating growth opportunities, and strengthening relationships among staff. This means promoting accountability and ownership and continuous assurance that women, staff of color, and LGBTQIA+ staff, feel seen, heard, and understood.
Our Chief People Officer Wendy Lee said it best: “Hamilton Families’ staff investments are focused on valuing employees—with an ultimate goal of retention and recruitment. Our primary focus is fair, equitable compensation and strengthened professional development for job success and career advancement opportunities. We believe these investments strengthen our ability to best support low-income and families of color in our community.”
I couldn’t agree with her more; without our staff at Hamilton Families, our mission of ending family homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area cannot be achieved.
In community,
CEO Hamilton Families
We asked AND you responded 📣
Thank you to our amazing Hamilton Heroes who helped support the families in our programs this past month!
Whether you donated baby formula to mothers and infants in our residential programs like Ali Rae, or started a fundraiser at your school like the kids at North School Elementary, or you’ve been a long-time Hamilton Hero who simply wants to brighten up a dad’s day like our friend Marsha at Bloomingdale’s, our Hamilton Heroes are vital to helping us make sure every family we serve can become housed!
Put it on your calendar! The Hamilton Families Annual Benefit is on October 6 🎉
Dance alongside our CEO Kyriell Noon and help us ensure families in our community stay stably housed as we continue to help hundreds of families move into permanent housing in the coming year!