Opinion: ing Father Joe as his centers enter their 75th year
Father Joe Carroll is ed as the hustler priest. When he became director of Father Joe’s Villages, then known as the St. Vincent de Paul Center, he arrived with a...
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Opinión: La mejor manera de terminar con la falta de vivienda es detectarla a tiempo
Voluntariarse, abogar y donar si pueden. Juntos, podemos poner fin a la falta de vivienda, una vida a la vez.
Opinion: The best way to end homelessness is to catch it early. Here’s how.
I know of a family who recently had their only home towed away during a stay in San Diego. This situation could have easily resulted in the family ending up...
Opinion: Opioid crisis taking heavy toll on homeless individuals
Any approach to ending the homelessness crisis in San Diego must be rooted in both proven solutions and a willingness to meet every neighbor in need where they are. For...
Homelessness can easily lead to substance abuse. But there is one way to stop the cycle.
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages and lives in La Jolla.No matter what we try, it seems like the homelessness crisis is only getting worse. Data from the...
Countless San Diegans face housing, food insecurity. Here’s how Father Joe’s is helping.
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages and lives in La Jolla.From Nov. 13 to 21, cities and counties across the country will commemorate Hunger & Homelessness Awareness...
Hunger and homelessness prevail in San Diego. We can make an impact.
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages and lives in La Jolla.From Nov. 13 to 21, cities and counties across the country will commemorate Hunger & Homelessness Awareness...
To stop homelessness soaring in San Diego, we need to invest in housing and health care
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages. He lives in La Jolla.Nearly 5,200 men, women and children sleep on the streets of San Diego County in dangerous situations,...
San Diego must get children and families off the street. Here’s how we make it happen.
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages. He lives in La Jolla.Every parent wants what’s best for their children. Yet, every single day, too many families face the...
San Diego’s growing homelessness crisis impacts all of us. More housing is the solution.
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages. He lives in La Jolla.Even after facing a lifetime of struggle, he always held tight to a single photograph. It was...
San Diego homelessness statistics are not just numbers on a graph – they’re our neighbors
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages. He lives in La Jolla.For an increasing number of San Diego residents, access to affordable housing is becoming less and less...
Substance use is causing devastation and suffering in San Diego. Here’s why street health is a game changer.
Four years ago, the Father Joe’s Villages Street Health team encountered a young man in his early 20s who was facing substance use disorder.The team came across this young man...
We must work together to provide immediate assistance to those falling into homelessness
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe's Villages. He lives in La Jolla.For the first time since 2020, the Regional Task Force on Homelessness released its annual Point-in-Time count report...
Why California’s CARE Court idea is a good way to help people with serious mental illness
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages. He lives in La Jolla. Norris is the chief medical officer at Father Joe's Villages. He lives in North Park. Every day,...
Families need housing. And housing needs everyone’s .
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages. He lives in La Jolla.Joe Fish and his 7-year-old daughter, Abigail, were given 45 days to find a new home when their...
Here’s how Father Joe’s Villages acted to help the most vulnerable during the pandemic
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages. He lives in La Jolla. We can all attest to the numerous annoyances, discomforts and dangers of living during the time...
Riddled with obstacles, homelessness is not a condition endured by the lazy
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages, and a member of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Community Voices Project. He lives in La Jolla.I know a local woman who became homeless...
Our neighbors sleep on the sidewalks with no food or hope. Here’s how you can help.
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages and a member of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Community Voices Project. He lives in La Jolla. Billimoria is senior vice president...
We all have a part to play in addressing hunger and homelessness. Here’s what you can do.
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages, and a member of The San Diego Union-Tribune's Community Voices Project. He lives in La Jolla. Billimoria is senior vice president...
High housing costs, economic distress may lead to homelessness
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages. He lives in La Jolla.Anyone can fall into homelessness under the right (or wrong) conditions. Since many people are just a few...
Why are overdoses up? Many factors work against recovery and there are no sure-fire solutions.
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages. He lives in La Jolla.Last year, Father Joe’s Villages’ security officers saved the lives of 42 individuals who were experiencing an overdose...
An aging generation is struggling to survive its ‘golden years’ in San Diego
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages. He lives in La Jolla. A World War II veteran became homeless in San Diego for the first time at 89...
Additional mental health training would benefit both police officers and the people they serve and protect
Every day in my work, I am pained to witness the indignities that our neighbors experiencing homelessness endure.With so few public restrooms available and so many without a home, our...
When I think of inspiring mothers, I think of the ones at Father Joe’s Villages
Deacon Jim Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages. He lives in La Jolla.Walking the campus of Father Joe’s Villages’ Family Living Center, I’m blessed to see countless...
As CEO of Father Joe’s, people ask me what can be done to end homelessness. Here’s what I say.
Vargas is president and CEO of Father Joe’s Villages, and a deacon at Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church. He lives in La Jolla.On March 15, a motorist crashed...
Measure A would build 7,500 apartments and help end chronic street homelessness in San Diego
Being homeless was a nightmare, moving around from place to place. That’s how one resident of Father Joe’s Villages’ Benson Place, an affordable community for people overcoming homelessness and struggling...
How medication-assisted treatment can curb drug crisis
At Father Joe’s Villages, we see firsthand that drug use is one of the most common and destructive factors driving people to life on the street. Our neighbors experiencing homelessness...