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Siena/Francis House

Organization: Homeless Shelter
Facility Type: Shelter
Status: Open

Address:
1702 Nicholas Street
P.O. Box 217 - Downtown Station
Omaha, NE 68101

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Main/General Business Number: Phone: 402-341-1821, FAX: 402-341-5270
Website: http://www.sienafrancis.org/


Mission: From their website:

Serving the Omaha and Council Bluffs metropolitan area since 1975, Siena/Francis House creates an environment in which people can find the motivation needed to precipitate adult behavioral change, moving in small, manageable steps.

The first step is to get our guests off the streets. Next we encourage sobriety in our recovery program, a traditional 12 step recovery process. Then we move to training in social and job skills, education and self-esteem, and finally to independent living training in transitional housing.

The Siena/Francis House is unique in that it cultivates the kind of responsibility required for productive lives. A result of this initiative is that our shelter is run almost entirely by homeless people in recovery. It has proven to be an excellent motivating factor, with many guests in our wet shelter anxious to join our therapeutic community and acquire job skills and training, By daily interactions with people in the work/recovery program, guests who are still caught in the homelessness and addiction cycle can see clear evidence of the potential to regain control over their lives.

Our belief is that by finding value and untapped abilities in people society has overlooked, we help them find value in themselves. With education, job training, counseling, and peer mentoring, we hope to furnish the tools that help residents recover from the primary problems that brought them to the doors of the emergency shelter, reducing recidivism rates among the population served. The primary goal of the Siena/Francis House is to work towards successfully ending the homeless cycle rather than providing only short-term, stop-gap treatments.





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

siena1702@sienafrancis.omhcoxmail.com

See website for email addresses for individual staff:
Mike Saklar, Executive Director
Debbie Thompson Homeless Management Information Systems database
Irene Tryon Homeless Management Information Systems database Email

Shelter Operations:
James Hayes, Francis House Manager Contact for men's shelter
Patty Cunningham, Siena House Guest Manager Contact for women's shelter
David Kjeldgaard, Procurement Manager Inkind Donations Email
Kyle Templeton, Maintenance Manager Email

Counseling - Miracles Treatment Center:
Bill Keck, Miracles Treatment Center Director
Frank Bailey, Senior Chemical Dependency Counselor
Tory Stafford, Women's Treatment Center Coordinator & Counselor Contact
Brian Brown, Day Program Outreach Counselor
Jason Reid, Men's Treatment Center Coordinator & Counselor Contact

Day Services:
Rod Bauer Day Services Director

Services:

- Men's Shelter
- Women's Shelter

Exercising a policy of unconditional acceptance, the Siena/Francis House is dedicated to providing services to all individuals who are without a home, including those viewed as difficult to serve, chronically addicted and mentally ill individuals who are not currently receiving treatment or taking medication.

- Food & Nourishment

Siena/Francis House provides approximately 900 meals per day over the course of one year with an annual food budget of about $200. In order for this to be possible, the donations and dedication of many individuals is a constant need. Last year we served over 331,000 meals.

- Clothing

In an average year, Siena/Francis House will provide over 20 tons of clothing to its guests. During an abnormally hard winter, this number will go up substantially, creating a greater need for this basic necessity of life.

- Recovery

Approximately 15% of all individuals entering the dependency and addiction program at Siena/Francis House remain drug free. This is roughly the same percentage of success enjoyed by nationally known dependency treatment programs.

- Education

Beyond providing food, shelter, and clothing. Siena/Francis House is dedicated to providing a means of education to our guests. This helps to break the cycle of homelessness.

- Job Training

Siena/Francis House provides fundamental job training. This includes training in interview skills as well as actual job training. As part of the continual job training, guests learn necessary skills by working at the house in many different capacities.

- Medical

Siena/Francis House provides medical services for its guests with the help of volunteer doctors and nurses. This provision is unconditional, and over the course of a year, the positive impact that this has on Siena/Francis guests is immeasurable.

Normal, "non-disaster time" needs:
http://www.sienafrancis.org/daily-needs-list.htm
They also usually need soup kitchen volunteers. See website for details. Call first to see if they still need volunteers.
Terra (6/14/08): Needs info is from the website. Call for current needs list.

Info Source/Changes:
corrected org/removed C&C avails
(see full history)

Created At: Sat Jun 14 03:44:39 +0000 2008
Updated At: Mon Dec 29 03:43:38 +0000 2008
Updated By: LTel


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