St. Francis of Assisi, as a Passage Home faith partner, adopts a house or apartment to make a comfortable home for women coming out of prison or a family transitioning from homelessness.  Our team of volunteers provides light maintenance repair as well as redecorating.  Furniture and other household items are solicited through donations.  We stock the kitchen with a week’s worth of groceries.  When the family moves in, the program concludes with the St. Francis team and family enjoying a meal of celebration, thanksgiving, and fellowship.

St. Francis adopted our first house in September 2007.  It was commissioned that October as the Magdala House and serves as a safe and comfortable home for four women coming out of prison.  Our second home, St. Margaret of Cortona adopted in July 2008, is an apartment where a family who was previously homeless can live in a secure and private environment. 

For more information or if you would like to join this team, contact Donna Mariani at 326-3768.