The goal of the Emergency Shelter Coalition (ESC) is to end homelessness in the City of San Clemente. This can be accomplished by creating sustainable, long-term housing availability. The ESC seeks to establish a year-round emergency and services center to provide those individuals or families facing homelessness with a safe place to sleep, eat, shower, and wash their clothes, while they receive counseling and referral services.
The ESC recognizes that people face homelessness for any number of reasons, including job loss, foreclosure, financial misfortune, poverty, lack of affordable housing, mental illness, substance abuse, and/or domestic abuse. It is imperative to provide safe support for those who need it, because all persons deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. ~Bonhoeffer
Emergency shelter coalition