“Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.” – John Lewis Can we be…
Like you, we are incredibly distraught over the recent indictments in the case against the murder of Breonna Taylor. The truth is that a young, innocent Black woman was killed in her sleep by police. The only charge brought against one of the three officers was for endangering people in the neighboring apartment. At Larkin…
Thanks to your support, we served over 2,025 young people this year. Please see below for the full text of the letter from our Executive Director, Sherilyn Adams, and Board Chair, Susan K. Alexander, with their update on the past year, and what’s ahead: Dear Friends, As the two of us reflect on the roller…
/* wp:freeform */ On Friday, the world learned that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at age 87 after serving 27 years on the Court. She was a hero to many, and her passing is an immeasurable loss as an unwavering voice for equality. RBG was nominated for the Supreme Court in 1993, only…
/* wp:freeform */ Our very own Sherilyn Adams, along with leaders from 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic, Five Keys Schools and Programs, At The Crossroads, Community Housing Partnership, Homeless Youth Alliance, Huckleberry Youth Programs, LYRIC, San Francisco LGBT Center, and Young Community Developers, shared their expertise on the importance of investing in young people.…
San Francisco’s legislators will be making key decisions about the City’s budget priorities, and we need your help to ensure our collective voices are heard! On Monday, August 24, the Board of Supervisors will hear public comment on the budget and appropriations. You can take part by tuning in at sfgovtv.org. You can also take…
On August 10, we came together with our community partners Supervisor Matt Haney, Code Tenderloin, St. Anthony’s, Tipping Point, Megablack SF, and award-winning artist Malik Senefru to create a mural in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. “Let’s recognize the large number of unhoused Black people navigating and residing in the Tenderloin, and let’s hurry up and…
We are thrilled to announce that Google.org has chosen Larkin Street as one of the recipients of their new grants! Their support will help us ensure that young people experiencing homelessness can have what they need to recover from the impact of COVID-19 and continue to thrive. Read about Google.org’s Housing First approach here: In…
Updated July 22, 2020 Overview Larkin Street’s primary focus is on the health and safety of the youth we serve and our staff. We are committed to providing critical, life-saving services that young people need to come inside, get housed, and rebuild their lives, which is now more critical than ever. We are regularly updating our…
This week our nation and community lost one of the great men of the last half-century, U.S. Representative John Lewis. His legacy of freedom-fighting and justice-seeking stretched from the Jim Crow era to the Black Lives Matter movement. When Hollywood dramatizes his life, it will read like a fictional movie character created to span the entire civil rights movement through the eyes of one person. But we must remember, it was all true. A child of sharecroppers, growing up he…
Thanks to your tremendous outreach and support, California state funds for Homeless Youth Emergency Services and Housing Program will remain intact for 2020. The Governor’s budget also includes an 8% set-aside for youth in Homeless, Housing, Assistance and Prevention funds! Because of the ongoing advocacy of thousands of people like you, California continues to be…
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger with a regiment of Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. This event occurred two and a half years…
Before moving to San Francisco, Angel was scared to express who he really was. As a young gay man of color, he didn’t feel proud of himself or deserving of acceptance. These feelings became hard to manage, and he turned to substance use to cope. The turning point for Angel was finding a community within Larkin Street programs. Through…
To understand the seismic shift occurring everywhere around us, we must acknowledge that structural racism has existed since our nation’s founding. It persists today: from redlining (in which people of color were, and are, unable to purchase real estate), to the war on drugs, stop and frisk, and the disparities in crack versus powder cocaine…
The importance of home has never been more apparent. Under Shelter-in-Place, our homes have become our offices, gyms, restaurants, and most importantly sanctuaries. Your home quite literally determines your survival during a pandemic. But on any given night there are more than 1,100 young people on the streets of San Francisco without a safe place…
Huge thanks to KCBS Radio for featuring the new city-sanctioned Safer Sleeping Site in their “A Place to Shelter” series. We have partnered with the City of San Francisco and Homeless Youth Alliance to open a new city-sanctioned Safer Sleeping Site in the Haight Street neighborhood. With room for up to 40 tents, the site…
A special heartfelt thank you to these partners for supporting our work to end youth homelessness through COVID-19 emergency grants. Because of the generous support of these companies, we have been able to provide PPE, essential worker pay, food access and emergency funds for youth, remote service delivery and equipment, hotel rooms for young people,…
We are pleased to announce that on April 29, Larkin Street Youth Services, in partnership with the City of San Francisco, officially opened the doors to a new temporary Shelter-in-Place (SiP) hotel, known as Site #1. This site, part of the SiP Hotel Initiative in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, is available to for up to 55 young people…
As someone who’s recovering from past substanceuse, it’s been difficult not being able to go to mysupport group meetings. I’ve been sober for a yearand a half now and I intend to work very hard not tolet COVID-19’s impact get in the way of my recovery.That’s not to say it hasn’t been a struggle. Eventhough…
Giving back isn’t cancelled! Let’s come together on May 5 for #GivingTuesdayNow and respond to the unprecedented impact caused by COVID-19. The need for services to support young people experiencing homelessness has never been more real and immediate. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, almost 50% of young people accessing Larkin Street’s services have lost their jobs and they need our help now more than…