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“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…

Richard Smith’s confident handshake and sense of purpose compliment his southern hospitality and kind manner. Born in New Orleans, the 48 year-old former Navy Yeoman first came to Miami in 2008 after a mandatory evacuation of his home town…

After more than eight years of living on the streets of Miami, Olga Salfran is grateful to Camillus House's Lazarus Project for helping her break the cycle of homelessness. Recently, she was visited by representatives of the Telemundo Network at…

Mary Jane Janelle was a “free bird” as she describes herself in her youthful years, growing up in a Catholic household with her mom and dad. “I was daddy’s little girl!” she says as her smile widens and her eyes…