St. Anthony's Foundation in SF ending many valuable programs.

At least 40 employees of St. Anthony's Foundation http://www.stanthonysf.org will be getting their pink slips, and hundreds of clients will be without shelter, and other valuable life saving programs when St. Anthony's closes or shuts down at least four of their services within the year.
According to an employee of St. Anthony's Foundation they plan to close the Marian Residence for Women in September 2008, and at least 60 people will be without shelter and access to "long term transitional residential services."



Clients in need of a "safe, supportive, and structured alcohol and drug recovery program" will have to go elsewhere when St. Anthony's closes and sells their "315-acre organic farm in Petaluma." It is slated to close by March 2009.

In the coming months many seniors will also lose help, when the SAF closes the Senior Outreach and Support Services Program, and many folks will not get help with employment when parts of that program are also closed.

Anyone can walk to St. Anthony's and see that neighborhood is nothing more than a war zone, and unfit for people who don't want to be exposed to, or deal with, violence, illicit drugs, property theft, or sexual predators, so the closing of those programs will be detrimental to the health and welfare of hundreds of people, but there has been no mention of closing the dining room, which has been in existence since the 1950's.