A Womans Place

About A Womans Place

A Womans Place is a community-based health clinic in San Francisco County, CA . They serve the inner city population. This clinic is open only nineteen hours a week so call in advance. A federal grant awarded to sub-recipient San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium helps maintain operations. Opened since 1900, A Womans Place opens on a part-time schedule.

A Woman's Place (AWP) is the only gender-specific emergency shelter and transitional housing of its kind in San Francisco, providing a safe haven for homeless women and victims of crimes (domestic violence, rape, sexual assault) with a comprehensive range of flexible services, including health care, mental health counseling, case management services, and money management. The facility serves all women, catering to the chronically homeless who are most at risk and serving individuals other agencies turn away. Emergency housing is provided to single women without children, the LGBT and HIV/AIDS communities, those who experience mental illness, domestic violence, and substance abuse. AWP serves adult women of all ages and ethnicities who feel they have nowhere else to go. At A Woman's Place, individuals receive the structure and support needed to attain permanent housing, a stable income, and if possible, gainful employment. The average length of stay is 6 - 12 months in the Transitional Housing Program. At capacity, 54 women can be housed in the building. Transitional housing (15 beds), Substance Abuse (14 beds) and the emergency shelter (25 beds) serve more than 450 people each year.