Simply Healthcare, a leading managed care company for people enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare programs in the state of Florida, generously awarded a $100,000 grant to Camillus House to help its Day Center provide meals for the street homeless…

Stacie Archer understands how challenging it can be for families on a budget to enjoy healthy, affordable meals. At one point in her life, she had to find ways for her three children to have low-cost, highly nutritious meals. So…

“Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.” Dr. Frank Pittman’s words embrace the journey of John Hugo. A single parent to his son Randy, their path to a better life meant he had to…

One person’s trash is another man’s treasure…especially when that young man is Josh Finvarb. A 12th grader at Miami Country Day School, Josh wanted to find a way to help others. After hearing about Camillus House and its shower program,…

A pre-pandemic memory that freshens the air of Camillus consciousness is that of The Hug—freely given by CEO Hilda Fernandez and others from our team to the homeless we serve. These happened spontaneously as the best of hugs should. There…

“YP” appears on her identification badge and in a few years’ time she’ll be a young professional in a Young Professionals’ Organization but for now it’s “youth program” at the college-like Camillus campus. Born in 1997 in the Kendall…

As Dave Barry riffs in Lessons From Lucy, “This is a beautiful thing about dogs. They don’t care what they look like—they don’t even know what they look like—and they don’t care what anybody else looks like. I won’t go…

There are different loves you see if you walk slowly around the Camillus campus. There’s the kitchen cook who graduated from homelessness and greets someone newly going through it with words cheered to perfection as if to say, “I see…

Three things about Mr. Glenn tell me he’s an artist before he gets into his bona fides. Not unlike many of the luminaries in the book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, Mr. Glenn methodically awakens at the same early morning hour…

Geraldine and her team of committed volunteers work at Women’s Shower Program at Camillus House, starting her morning promptly at 6:00 am to prepare for the influx of homeless women soon to arrive. In operations now for the past fifteen…