Dinner Meeting April 2, 2024

Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Our speaker will be Sara Mirhadi, Chief Programs Officer at Poverello House

Sara Mirhadi has worked at Poverello House for over ten years. She supervises all client services programs such as Street Outreach and Navigation, emergency shelter programs, Map Point, and the Mens Residential Program. Her duties at Poverello House include designing and implementing programs for Poverello House. She is also the Secretary for the Madera Continuum of Care. Sara is a graduate of Fresno State and San Joaquin College of Law. She has lived in the City of Fresno most of her life. Sara has worked for the National Park Service, State Senator Jim Costa, City of Fresno, and the Workforce Investment Board. Poverello House is her dream job. Ms. Mirhadi will talk about the state of homelessness/unhoused women in Fresno and the programs and services available at Naomi’s House and the Poverello House.

Located on the grounds of the Poverello House in downtown Fresno, Naomi’s House is a 34-bed, emergency overnight  shelter for single, homeless women. Residents receive access to basic necessities, such as showers, clothing, meals and medical and/or dental care. Case management services are also provided, which assist residents in finding housing, accessing mental health care, and learning to make positive life choices to achieve self-sufficiency.