Bridge to Home, Santa Clarita’s homeless shelter is seeking an Executive Director, as they say goodbye to Tim Davis, who is retiring and moving out of the SCV.

Davis, who was one of the founders of Bridge to Home in the 90’s, is retiring and relocating to Alabama.

“Our wonderful Executive Director, Tim Davis, is retiring from his ‘third career’ and leaving both Bridge to Home and the Santa Clarita Valley,” according to Bridge to Home’s website. “The Board of Directors is recruiting for the position and is seeking candidates that can build on the strong foundation that Tim is leaving. We are so very grateful for the service and leadership that Tim and Laurel Davis have given to our community.”

Bridge to Home provides support services – including an emergency winter shelter case management, housing navigation, and medical and dental clinics – that help individuals and families in the Santa Clarita Valley transition out of homelessness, according to their website.

“It was a pleasure working with the Santa Clarita community,” said Davis. “There are so many nice people here, and it’s hard to express the pleasure it’s been working here.”

The nonprofit is funded through contracts with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, subcontracts with Los Angeles Family Housing, private and public grants, and extensive in-kind donations and participation from the local community, according to their website.

Bridge to Home is a growing organization that currently operates with a year round staff of 13, an annual cash budget of approximately $600,000 and an annual in-kind budget of approximately $300,000, according to their website.

The new Executive Director will work with an energetic board of directors, a strong, compassionate staff, and a supportive community as we design and implement plans to build a new permanent facility and new ways to effectively serve the homeless residents of the Santa Clarita Valley, the hiring post on their website said.

More information, including a detailed job announcement with qualifications and directions on how to apply, can be found at the following page.

About Bridge to Home

Since 1996, Bridge to Home has provided shelter to the homeless residents of Santa Clarita Valley during the winter months. In 1996, the budget was 60K, and the shelter was located in a city-donated warehouse. Since then, the Shelter has moved several times to locations including the Aquatics Park, the Via Princessa Metrolink Park and Ride, the County Equipment Maintenance Yard on Centre Pointe Parkway, and on Golden Valley by the Fire Station.

Today, the shelter has a $1M budget and is located at the end of Drayton Street off of Railroad Avenue.What started as a volunteer effort to provide shelter during the winter months has blossomed into full-service agency providing a continuum of comprehensive support services that help individual and families transition out of homelessness.Bridge to Home provides a crossing point in many people’s’ lives. It is where hope meets home. It is where lives change. It is where the hungry, homeless and hurting of Santa Clarita Valley experience the compassion that abounds in this community.The Santa Clarita Shelter offers 127 nights of safe, warm, and welcoming shelter for homeless people in Santa Clarita.

The Bridge: Client Care Center, our case management center, offers year around support through a collaborative process to assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate the options and services required to meet the client’s health and service needs to transition out of homelessness.Bridge to Home’s goals include identifying a permanent shelter location and expanding services to provide comprehensive care. As one of the fastest-growing communities in the United States, the Santa Clarita Valley will continue to be challenged to fund the social services required by a rapidly developing society. With public funds increasingly scarce for social programs, Bridge to Home has taken a primary role in meeting the needs of the hungry and homeless in this community. Although the organization has made significant progress in providing shelter and services.

Bridge to Home will face countless new challenges in the months and years to come. The organization continues to need the community’s help to provide a permanent year around shelter. Community support, combined with a broader array of support from the private sector and increased grant funding from private foundations, will enable Bridge to Home to achieve its objectives.

For more information visit the Bridge to Home website here.