Human Services Campus in Phoenix AZ

The Human Services Campus has five service providers in one location.The 14-acre campus is located south of Madison ST. If you go south of Madison ST on 11th or 12th AVE...you will see it. You can also go west of 9th AVE on Jackson ST to get to the location. The actual address is 1209 W. Madison ST near downtown Phoenix, Arizona.

The campus opened on Monday, November 7, 2005 and it will help the homeless in the Phoenix area. The campus is made up of three buildings with 150,000 total square feet.The project cost $24 million. One of the five services that can be found is located south of Jackson and west of 10th Avenue. It is the St. Vincent de Paul dining room. The room has 300 seats and it's expected to serve 900 meals each day. In the large building west of the dining room you will find three services for the homeless. One of those three services is a Day Resource Center where the homeless can get off the streets to use the restroom, take a shower, or relax in a comfortable chair. This resource center also provides therapists, counselors and advisors from state, county, city, and private agencies too. These include substance-abuse and mental-health counselors, job counselors and housing advisors. St. Joseph the Worker is a job placement organization that assists the homeless in finding employment . Another service is offered by CASS, Central Arizona Shelter Services. This emergency homeless shelter has 400 beds. Mark Holleran is the Central Arizona Shelter Services Director. The CASS fund-raising Director is Martin Shultz. The third service located in the largest building is Health Care for the Homeless. This is a clinic offered by Maricopa County. Corinne Velasquez is the program administrator for this program. The 14,000 square-foot clinic has eight examination rooms. Dentist Kris Volcheck started a one-station dental clinic at CASS in 2000.He is now one of about 130 dentists that staff the dental clinic inside of the new CASS facility. Nova Safe Haven opened in 2006, I believe. It is a shelter for the homeless that are mentally ill. It is located in the separate building north of the largest building on the campus.

Thank you to EVERYONE who donated money to make this campus a reality !!! I pray that this campus will help many of the 12,000 homeless people living in the Valley of the Sun.

I also have a link to their website below and in the title of this post.

I am uncertain if all the information above regarding the Human Services Campus is still accurate as of today, 5/30/2007.

http://www.maricopa.gov/HSCampus/contact.aspx

May 30, 2007 WED. 12:34 PM