The Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco

Good Shepherd Gracenter (Gracenter) helps women without resources break free from drug and alcohol addiction. By providing long-term transitional housing with an individualized 12-Step recovery plan, we offer each woman the opportunity to live a healthy and meaningful life. Gracenters approach is both comprehensive and preventative, providing a clean and sober residence, weekly counseling and mentoring meetings, three healthy meals each day, linkages to social and safety net services, higher education and internships, job readiness and employment opportunities, skill-building classes and workshops, and a community of support to help women achieve independent and sober living. Gracenter clients have an excellent recovery rate due our utilization of best practices in the recovery field which include: a) the 12-Step approach, which is practical and therapeutic; b) Restorative Justice practices of accepting responsibility for one's actions, repairing the harm through apology, restitution,