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He was only six in 2007, but Lorenzo A. still remembers the nine-hour trip to Miami. He recalls piling into the car with his mother and three sisters and heading south. “My mom was trying to get away from my…

MIAMI, FLA – Today, Camillus House recognizes its 62nd Anniversary of serving homeless persons in Miami-Dade County. In 1960, Brother Mathias Barrett, founder of Camillus House, came to Miami and responded to a need to aid Cuban immigrants arriving in…

Lawrence is a 64-year-old who hails from Arkansas and is the youngest of three siblings. Raised in what he says is a “good family and someone who has always been surrounded by successful people,” tragedy struck Lawrence, a U.S. military…

By 7 a.m. Monday through Friday the four-person outreach team of Camillus House’s Lazarus Project piles into a City of Miami van. Lazaro Trueba, assistant program administrator for the Office of Homeless Programs with the City, gets behind the wheel…

11 years ago, Destiny, then a 20 year old and a Rhode Island native, moved to Miami with her mother and stepfather. Now 31 and thriving thanks to Project Phoenix, her life took a series of twists and turns before…

February 17, 2021 MIAMI, FL -- Camillus House was awarded an $85,000 grant from the Simply Healthcare Foundation to support Project Phoenix, the only residential housing and treatment program in Miami-Dade County for women survivors of human trafficking. As…

Authors like Andrew Solomon and R.O. Kwon tell us in this week’s columns that sharing our grief is a must. And maybe that’s why Veronica, a Camillus House resident-in-healing, is the kind of modern-day messenger we need just past…

Playwright Eve Ensler, who worked in a homeless shelter for eight years, writes last year in The Apology—excerpted throughout this article— that “there is no pain we can ever truly bury or avoid within ourselves.” After years of avoiding the…

Gary Allen is seen softly smiling, holding a cage with a single egg within. The egg is facing a door-less entry-way. The egg, once hatched, has every opportunity to leave, yet remains hesitant within the copper bounds of the…

Upon meeting Samson Howard, one quickly sees his warm smile and an indelible sense of gratitude in his eyes. Samson, who has been working for Camillus House for more than ten years, was recently promoted to Emergency Housing Manager.…