How He Helps Heal The Chronically Homeless | Father Tim McCabe
BLTnT Podcast by Matt Loria
Episode notes
Father Tim McCabe grew up blue collar in Detroit, worked construction, ran refugee programs, and spent years with people at the bottom before he ever put on a collar.
He was assigned to a day center for the homeless in 2015. But after five people died of fentanyl overdoses within a couple of days, his team sat together and someone said it doesn't have to be this way.
So he started building and he raised nearly $40 million without a donor database.
The Pope Francis Center now has a bridge housing facility designed around trauma, with wide hallways, natural light, on-site medical and psychiatric care, a full curriculum, and people graduating to housing.
Here's everything we covered:
→ Why trauma-informed care is the only approach that works for chronic homelessness
→ How he raised $13 million from a family in Cal ...