Our Impact
The Compassion Center serves around 800 people each year.
The most recent homeless census counted over 814 people who were homeless on a single given night in January 2019. Our many services and programs touch the majority of people experiencing homelessness in South Santa Clara County in one way or another.
During our last fiscal year—June 1, 2020 to July 30, 2021—137 people found permanent housing with the support of a Compassion Center program. These are children, women, and men who could otherwise still be living without a home.
Learn more about the work we do on our Services pages
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By the Numbers: Annually
137 Clients Returned to Stable Housing
As the first point of contact for most unhoused clients in our area, we enter them into the county-wide database that assesses their vulnerability and places them on a list for housing. By providing this service and connection to other services, more of our residents who have lost their homes are finding new ones.
More than 13,500 basic needs services delivered each year
250 days a year, we provide food, water, showers, laundry, hygiene items, access to clothing and mail delivery to the vast majority of unhoused residents of South Santa Clara County.
Food for over 15,000 meals
We provide enough food for two meals a day to most of our 800+ unhoused residents in South County.
More than 1,000 showers and laundry services
We’ve partnered with WeHope’s Dignity on Wheels mobile laundry and shower units to bring these services directly to the people who need them.
More than 700 personal care items
We provide hygiene items such as toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, and soap. This allows our unhoused residents not only to stay clean and healthy, but also hold on to a sense of dignity.
As the largest local non-profit working exclusively on homelessness, our programs and services are many and varied. We get funding from federal, state, and local governments, plus grants and individual contributions. Learn more about each of our programs on our Services pages.
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