Special Events
St. Francis Center hosts two annual events, a gala in the Fall and a lunch in the Spring. Our special events help raise integral dollars to support our mission, and are a great way to engage with our greater community of support.
Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 11:30a.m.
PPA Events Center – 2105 Decatur Street, Denver, CO 80211
• NEW LOCATION FOR 2025 •
“Caring for our Neighbors:
Housing as the starting point for community integration and healing following homelessness.”
We hope to focus on the resources needed to help people regain a sense of community and belonging. Within this focus we want to explore how “being with” a person on the journey creates a more healing and trusting environment rather than “fixing” or “placing” people in housing as the end and only result of the process out of homelessness.
Our Keynote Speaker is Dr. Aron S. Wolf, MD. Dr. Wolf is a psychiatrist in Anchorage, Alaska and is affiliated with multiple hospitals and service systems in Alaska including the Alaska Psychiatric Institute and Providence Alaska Medical Center. He has recently published a paper with the University of Colorado Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health focusing on needed elements of a responsive behavioral health system. Dr. Wolf’s work in supporting people in community settings with the philosophy of “being with” a person in crisis as opposed to a more clinical focus is well known and regarded as groundbreaking. He has supported Permanent Supportive Housing sites and the staff working in these sites for more than a decade in Anchorage. Dr. Wolfe will be presenting on the vital and complicated process of building community in permanent supportive housing programs.
Attendees will have an opportunity to sign up to participate in a tour of our newest apartment building, St. Francis Apartments West located at 221 Federal Blvd (2 miles south of our luncheon site). This project consists of 60 one-bedroom apartments for seniors experiencing homelessness.
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St. Francis Center is an HCTC designee.
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