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Delancey Street Foundation
Delancey Street is a leading residential self-help organization for former substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless and others who have hit bottom.
Quick Facts:
- Focus of initiative/program:
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- Education
- Employment/Job Training
- Housing
- Mentoring
- Substance Abuse
- Inititative/program name:
- Delancey Street Foundation
- Year Established:
- 1971
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Delancey Street Foundation
- Population served by initiative/program:
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- Returning from local detention facilities
- Returning from local jails
- Returning from prison
- Under community corrections supervision (parole or probation)
- Adults
- Men
- Women
- People convicted of a violent offense
- People convicted of a non-violent offense
- Gang members
Delancey Street Foundation
Contact:
Charlotte BakerSecretary-Treasurer
Delancey Street Foundation
Phone: 415-957-9800
600 Embarcadero
San Francisco, California 94107
cbembno@aol.com
www.delanceystreet.org
Delancey Street Foundation
Initiatives and Programs
- Focus of initiative/program:
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- Education
- Employment/Job Training
- Housing
- Mentoring
- Substance Abuse
- Inititative/program name:
- Delancey Street Foundation
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Delancey Street Foundation
- Funding sources for initiative/program:
- Social enterprise income and donated goods
- X
- X
- X
- X
- X
- X
Funding
Partners in the reentry initiative/program
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| Education and training providers (e.g., local public school officials, vocational instructors): |
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| Institutional corrections (e.g., DOC, jail, prison): |
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| Law enforcement agencies (e.g., police, sheriff's office): |
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| Members of the community (e.g., people who have been incarcerated, their families or neighbors): |
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| Other criminal justice agencies (e.g., prosecutors, judges): |
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| Work force development and employment agencies (e.g. business associations, unions): |
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Participants
- Population served by initiative/program:
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- Returning from local detention facilities
- Returning from local jails
- Returning from prison
- Under community corrections supervision (parole or probation)
- Adults
- Men
- Women
- People convicted of a violent offense
- People convicted of a non-violent offense
- Gang members
- Total number of people who have participated in initiative/program to date:
- 15,000
- Total number of people currently participating in initiative/program:
- 1,500
- Total number of people who can be served at one time:
- 1,500
- If your initiative/program serves people under community corrections supervision, how does your organization work in partnership or work in collaboration with participants’ probation or parole officers?
- Delancey Street provides resident progress information to probation and parole officers.
Data Collection
- Does your organization collect demographic data on participants?
- Yes
- If "yes", what kind of data? And what results has this data yielded?
- We only collect data for internal use.
- Does your organization collect data about the process of your initiative/program?
- No
- Does your organization measure and/or track the outcome of participation?
- No
Activities
- What, if any, activities does your initiative/program include for people while they are incarcerated and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
- NA
- What activities does your organization engage in post-release and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
- Life skills, job skills, housing, food
- How are people placed into your program?
- Voluntary/Interview