A pre-pandemic memory that freshens the air of Camillus consciousness is that of The Hug—freely given by CEO Hilda Fernandez and others from our team to the homeless we serve. These happened spontaneously as the best of hugs should. There…

For 22 years, Paul Johnson – then known in our community as “Brother Paul” – led Camillus House from a small soup kitchen and overnight shelter to a nationally recognized and respected charitable organization. The longest serving Executive Director…

May 20, 2020 – Miami, Florida – It was “going once, going twice, sold” to virtual guests with hearts of gold who “attended” The Auction, Uncork & Unwind event held recently to benefit Camillus House, a nonprofit organization at the forefront of providing…

With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting everyday life, I wanted to reach out to see how you are doing and send wishes for good health and peace. At Camillus House, we adapted to these unprecedented circumstances and continue to serve…

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…

The TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, recently donated a total of $125,000 to Camillus House as part of the foundation’s Housing for Everyone grant competition. A total of $3.75 million was…

As we all work to meet the unique challenges presented by the global, COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic, Camillus House is working around the clock to ensure the safety, health, and wellbeing of our community’s homeless population, and in particular, the…

“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…

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…

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…