Grace Place
A Catholic Worker House of Hospitality
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Those We Serve Serve
We offer our home as a temporary residence (up to one year) without cost to women - with or without children - who are in transition from homelessness. We accept referrals from emergency shelters and social service agencies. In a setting that is homelike, healthy, loving and supportive, resident guestsare given time and support to address the problems that underlie their homelessness. This may include unemployment, leaving an abusive situation,lack of education or job skills, health problems, mental illness, substance abuse, release from prison, etc.

Core Values
We do not permit the possession or abuse of drugs or alcohol.

  • We avoid violence of any kind, including physical abuse, threatening, name calling or similar violent uses of language. This applies equally to interactions between adults and between parents and their children. Hitting children is not an acceptable form of discipline.
  • We do not have weapons of any kind, including toy weapons, on our property.
  • Workers' bedrooms and guests' bedrooms are off limits unless an invitation has been extended and the hostess is present.
  • A guest who violates any of our core values will be asked to leave.
'"What we would like to do is change the world -- make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And… fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can to a certain extent change the world;
we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world.

We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever-widening circle will reach around the world. ..there is nothing we can do but love, and dear God - please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor,
to love our enemy as well as our friends.'"
Love is the Measure" by Dorothy Day.

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