What's New?
- St. Luke’s LifeWorks has an immediate need for new twin bed sheets, fleece blankets and towels. We also need glow in the dark children’s snap-together bracelets for emergencies.
- Please check back to hear more about our upcoming St. Luke’s LifeWorks Holiday Gift Collection!!
- Shelters Feel State Budget Squeeze – click here to read Stamford Advocate article.
- Participants in Life Long Learning at St. Luke’s LifeWorks are benefiting from the use of $3,500 worth of ProLiteracy materials donated through the Charles Evans Book Fund. Click herefor photo.
- New St. Luke’s LifeWorks CEO in the news. Read more..
- Check out our all new wish list!
- Want to know more about LifeWorks? Click here... to enter our Press Room.
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Welcome
141 Franklin Street Stamford, Connecticut 06901 (203) 388-0100
St. Luke’s LifeWorks is a non-profit organization providing learning opportunities, housing and support services to people overcoming homelessness in lower Fairfield County.
"It is estimated that over 4,000 people experience homelessness everyday in Connecticut. Every night, 2,000 people, including 400 children spend the night in emergency housing."
- CT Commission to End Homelessness.
According to the Partnership for Strong Communities, people experience homelessness due to:
- Low income – unemployed or underemployed, working low wage jobs
- High housing costs consume too much of the family/individual income
- Unexpected event triggers a downward spiral – loss of a job, injury or illness, divorce, loss of a spouse, costly car breakdown
In addition, serious life issues can lead to long-term homelessness:
Mental illnessSubstance abusePhysical disability or illness such as HIV/AIDSClick here to watch a St. Luke’s LifeWorks success story.
Who We Are
Services are available at 10 locations, eight of which are in Stamford, for families, single adults, people living with HIV/AIDS and people recovering from mental illness.
St. Luke’s LifeWorks focuses on providing permanent solutions that enable program participants to achieve greater self-sufficiency.
CLICK HERE to watch a participant success story. CLICK HERE to read about St. Luke’s LifeWorks’ partnership with Norwalk Community College.
Fairfield County Community Foundation Awards
$15,000 to St. Luke’s LifeWorks
Stamford, CT., July, 2010 – The Fairfield County Community Foundation recently awarded a $15,000 competitive grant to St. Luke’s LifeWorks for its executive director transition and board
transition/training. St. Luke’s LifeWorks is a non-profit organization that helps people achieve –and maintain – permanent housing and stability in their lives.
Jason T. Shaplen joined St. Luke’s LifeWorks as Chief Executive Officer earlier this year. Mr. Shaplen came to St. Luke’s LifeWorks from Project Renewal in New York City - an organization that serves homeless adults, a mission similar to St. Luke’s LifeWorks. His appointment came shortly after the retirement of the organization’s founding executive director, the late Rev. Richard Schuster, who led St. Luke’s LifeWorks for 22 years.
The Fairfield County Community Foundation’s award is assisting with costs incurred to identify and hire, first an interim executive director, and ultimately Mr. Shaplen as permanent CEO.
Additionally, a portion of the Foundation’s grant will help fund a Board of Directors’ retreat designed to provide comprehensive training focused on board governance. This training will provide the Board with the needed training to be more knowledgeable and informed as it leads St. Luke’s LifeWorks and the more than 400 people it serves each year. “We are grateful for the support from the Fairfield County Community Foundation. They are a valued community partner to the agency” states Jason Shaplen.
The Fairfield County Community Foundation has been a supporter of St. Luke’s LifeWorks since 1998.
