Gubbio focused on providing onsite Healthy Hub Services

Healthy Hub Services at Gubbio

Gubbio Project SANCTUARY SUPPORT SERVICES:

Blankets: Gubbio gives out approximately 150 blankets per month. Socks: On average, 100 pairs of socks per week are distributed.

Hygiene Kits: include shampoo, conditioner, lotion, and soap. Gubbio gives out an average of 75 hygiene kits, 75 razors, and 50 toothbrushes each week.

Referrals to Outside Services and Resources: All of Gubbio's Hospitality Leaders are responsible for referring Gubbio guests to outside agencies and resources. Chaplaincy Services: Interfaith Chaplains are available 5 hours a day, 3 days each week to provide nonjudgmental deep listening and accompaniment.

Foot Care: a Registered Nurse Foot Care Specialist comes 4th Tuesday of every month and cares for 5 to 10 guests in the quiet and beauty of the sanctuary.

Massage Services: Gubbio partners with the Care Through Touch Institute to provide head/neck/upper back massage for 2.5 hours a week. Gubbio pays for this service. 2nd and 4th Mondays each month at the Gubbio Project 1661 15th St,(enter on Julian) (Mission).

Free pet food/supplies via the Full Belly Bus Mobile Pet Care Team at 12pm the 3rd Monday of every month at Gubbio.

. Wednesdays are Healthy Hubs at Gubbio featuring health services from the UCSF Mobile Vaccine Team, Street Outreach Services via SFCCC, including wound care, and rapid HIV testing and linkages to care with the Native American Health Center.

. Free Wifi and device charging stations are available onsite via a partnership with ShelterTech and new digital kiosks are forthcoming for our guests.

The Gubbio Newsletter is BACK!

Hey everyone!

Here at Gubbio we are all very excited to start releasing our Newsletters once again! COVID was hard on us all and it feels so good to start the newsletter again! The Gubbio Community newsletter is a great way to stay in touch with Gubbio and with what we are up to currently! For August, we are really focusing on all the extra services we have each and every month aside from our Sacred sleep and Coffee Program. As we continue to expand our line up for our guests, it means that it’s more important now than ever that if you haven’t subscribed to the newsletter that you do so now. A few clicks from you can help us Spread the word! You can sign up below to get on board with the newsletter, and from there you can easily sign up to volunteer and/or you can help support our operation by donating straight from the newsletter. Every month we will focus on different new aspects/services for the Gubbio Project. We’ve increased our services for our guests, as our theme for 2022 is “Partnering with a Purpose” we have worked hard to build relationships with other community organizations. This year we’ve started our Bi Monthly resource fair, which brings organizations from all over the city to our wonderful garden courtyard to provide quick and easy access to 5 or 6 service providers at one time. Things like free phones, dental and medical assistance, harm reduction supplies, housing assessments, harm reduction programs, and also traditional drug treatment programs. We try to bring as much stability as we can for people, having somewhere where you can exist can be the biggest factor in helping guests heal and grow at their pace. We love meeting people where they are at, so we strive to be low barrier, which for those we serve means,

No paperwork, No questions, No ID
ALL LOVE.

An Update from Gubbio

Dear Friends and Supporters of The Gubbio Project,

We hope that this finds you and your loved ones safe and well during this holiday season. At Gubbio we continue to be mindful of those for whom the holiday season is especially challenging – our neighbors who are unhoused. 

We want to let you know that we are continuing to monitor the Covid-19 pandemic and are taking direction from public health and infectious disease experts.  We continue to interact with our local partners to monitor the situation, provide our input and engage in advocacy.  In addition, we have been exploring potential new partnerships and additional sites. The Board of Directors remains committed to reopening and engaging our mission of providing Sacred Sleep as soon as it is safe to do so. We will continue to keep you updated on any developments.  

We are grateful for your support of The Gubbio Project and our unhoused neighbors. We wish you well this holiday season.  

In gratitude,

The Gubbio Project

An Update from the Board Chair, Tom Nolan

Dear Friends and Supporters of The Gubbio Project, 

I am writing to you as Chair of the Board of Directors of The Gubbio Project to inform you of a recent painful decision we had to make. As you may know both of our churches, St. Boniface in the Tenderloin and St. John’s in the Mission have been closed for some time now.

We have spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how and when we might be able to reopen. We have met with City Health Department officials, an infectious disease specialist working with people who are unhoused, and colleagues in other organizations serving our unhoused neighbors. The overwhelming consensus of those we consulted was that reopening safely could be a year away. Some said they believed it is safer for people to be outside rather than in a closed facility such as the churches.

The Board agonized over this and finally concluded that we would go into a pause period until we know more from the City and health experts. We have decided that we will look at the situation in quarters, namely monitor where we are every three months and decide next steps at that point. Our firm intention and hope is to be able to return as quickly as is safely possible. We will do all we can to serve the community by assisting other agencies serving people who are unhoused.

For me personally, I was always deeply touched when visiting our guests at both churches. Our mission of providing sacred sleep touches our hearts deeply. My pledge to you on behalf of the Board of Directors is that we will keep you informed at least quarterly on any progress we have made toward reopening.

Please know that we are deeply grateful to you for your support and love for Gubbio.

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us. The most up to date information will be posted here on our website.

Faithfully and sadly,

Tom Nolan

Gubbio Board Chairman

FROM THE DIRECTOR: REFLECTING ON COVID-19 AND A MESSAGE OF HOPE

April 9, 2020

Dear Friends and Supporters of Gubbio, 

This crisis has shown us that we are inextricably connected.  We are learning how the decisions we make impact others near and far.  We wear gloves and masks, practice social distancing and shelter in place to flatten the curve, for our safety and the safety of others.  But what about our neighbors who live on the streets?  What does it mean to shelter in place when you have no shelter or to practice social distancing when you have no place? 

In recent weeks, as the city is struggling to determine how it will respond and step up to protect our unhoused kin, we are seeing a barrage of statistics – infection rates, numbers of homeless people, numbers of meals served, numbers of available hotel rooms.  These numbers matter.  But what can get lost in the wash of these numbers is the fact that behind them all are people. Behind the numbers are living, breathing, dynamic humans.  Humans with beautiful, complicated lives of love, and loss and dreams.  Humans inherently deserving of safety, shelter and care. 

When we focus just on numbers, it becomes dangerously easy to “other” one another.  Whole groups of people become one generalized monolith, and as a result, can be considered less human and are more easily ignored. For many of us right now our only link to the “outside” world is a screen, making it easy for others to feel less real. 

This is the power of Gubbio - we provided sanctuary yes, but a core piece of that sanctuary is relationship.  At Gubbio we believe that we get close to one another, particularly those we consider to be so different from us, transformation is possible and we discover our common humanity.  

So this week, considered Holy by so many, as you gather with loved ones online, in the safety of your homes, I ask that you pause, take a moment to acknowledge, to feel the truth our interconnectedness and remember those who cannot shelter in place, who cannot practice social distancing. Breathe with that truth. Allow it to move you. 

As we move forward, with whatever is ahead of us, may we hold close the example of San Francisco's namesake, St. Francis. May we recognize the inherent worth of all and to be what he was – the living embodiment of our inter-connectedness and a model of compassion in service of and with those most marginalized. 

In Solidarity,

Shannon Eizenga

Executive Director

The Gubbio Project