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Making a difference for over 100 years.
Compass Family Services' predecessor, Travelers’ Aid San Francisco, is founded in anticipation of the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition (World’s Fair) -- which attracted 19 million visitors -- to provide assistance to newcomers to the city. The organization continued to provide a helping hand to American pioneers and new immigrants who became stranded on their journeys throughout this time.
1914-1934
Traveler's Aid
Due to the influx of refugees arriving from Europe and Asia, Traveler's Aid's caseload increases exponentially. A “Transit Lounge” is opened in Southern Pacific Railway Station (at 3rd and Townsend Streets) in response to influx of war refugees and increase in transient juveniles.
1940-1951
Refugees
After celebrating 75 years of “assisting transients, newcomers and travelers alone in the city,” the focus begins to shift to issues of homelessness as more and more people appear in San Francisco’s streets lacking shelter, employment, and other resources.
1989
Focus Shifts to Homelessness
Traveler's Aid San Francisco is renamed to Compass Community Services. The City of San Francisco awards Compass a grant to form Compass Connecting Point, allowing Compass to centralize access to services for homeless families and manage the city-wide family shelter waiting list.
1990-1995
Compass Community Services
In midst of Great Depression, extra workers are hired to conduct outreach to youth in need. As part of the New Deal, a National Youth Administration project helps update clerical work, freeing up social workers for greater client service. An office is opened on Treasure Island to provide full-time social workers for the Golden Gate International Exposition.
1936-1939
The Great Depression
Aquarius House, a 30-day residential program in the Haight to help with the influx of teens and young adults, is established in addition to the Tenderloin Childcare Center, which opens in the YMCA Ballroom in response to growing need for subsidized childcare among San Francisco’s poorest families. The Tenderloin Childcare Center becomes the first licensed childcare center in San Francisco to reserve slots for homeless children.
1969-1978
First Programs Established
Over this time frame, Compass Family Shelter opens as one of the city’s first family shelters to alleviate the burgeoning crisis of family homelessness in addition to Compass Clara House, a two-year transitional housing program for families, opens on Page Street. Compass establishes Family Follow-up Project to provide aftercare services to homeless families in permanent housing.
1990-1994
Growing Programs
Compass has been recognized as one of the Best Non-Profits in the Bay Area by the San Francisco chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and has been awarded the national Mutual of America Community Partnership Award. Compass has been one of 23 agencies nationwide to be awarded a federal grant through the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development to rapidly re-house homeless families.
Today
Compass Family Services