Like all programs at St. Luke’s LifeWorks, Bread & Roses programs strive to help participants learn a living. LifeWorks staff help each participant build a personalized life plan and provide coaching and mentoring along the way to help participants stabilize their health and attain more independent lifestyles. Our Life Long Learning program is available to all participants to help them achieve their personal goals.

McKinney Stamford provides transitional living (up to two years) for single adults who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Participants work through their personalized life plan while they are in the program so they are equipped to move into a home of their own and live independently.

Bread & Roses Georgetown and McKinney Fairfield provide supported housing (with staff support just a phone call away) for families in which one or more members are living with HIV/AIDS.

In 1987, St. Luke’s LifeWorks responded to the AIDS pandemic by working in cooperation with St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Darien and The Stewart B. McKinney Foundation to help people suffering from AIDS by opening McKinney Residence - the first AIDS residence in Connecticut.

The Stewart B. McKinney Foundation was founded by the widow of Stewart B. McKinney, a Congressman for the 1^st District who died of AIDS. The McKinney Stamford Residence opened its doors in April of 1989 and served men and women who were seriously ill with AIDS.

Also in 1989, Bread & Roses began as a grassroots organization during the AIDS-related illness of David Berry, a clinical psychologist from Westport, Connecticut.  David’s family and a group of close friends wanted to offer others support and care that would ease their struggle with AIDS and enable them to live each day as fully as possible. Bread & Roses opened the Georgetown Residence in 1991; it was the only family-style residence between New York City and New Haven dedicated exclusively to around-the-clock and hospice care for men and women seriously ill with AIDS. 

In 2001, Bread & Roses and St. Luke’s LifeWorks formed a partnership to better serve people living with HIV/AIDS. A merger officially united the two organizations and St. Luke’s LifeWorks’ HIV/AIDS programs are now known as Bread & Roses.

Our commitment to serving people living with HIV/AIDS remains strong. Thanks to advances in medicine people are living longer, healthier lives, but there are still many challenges they must face. St. Luke’s LifeWorks’ Bread & Roses programs strive to help participants stabilize their health and lead more independent lifestyles.