The Turk Center Information Kit

Help us create the new

Interfaith’s New Abraham and Lillian Turk Recuperative Care Center Interfaith’s new Abraham and Lillian Turk Recuperative Care Center will provide a place of healing and restoration for our local neighbors working to overcome homelessness and rebuild their lives. Interfaith needs your support and partnership to bring this critical resource to reality. The completion of the project is projected within 2021.

Project Background In June 2019, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to award Interfaith Community Services a $6,000,000 capital grant to expand our proven-effective Recuperative Care Program and to create a Graduate Lodging Program. In October 2020, Interfaith purchased a 77-room motel located at 555 N. Centre City Parkway for $8.6 million. The refurbishment, upgrade and development of the Turk Center will cost $1.8 million for total project cost of $10,400,000. A community fundraising campaign has been initiated to fund the remaining $4.4 million.

Interfaith Community Services is proud to announce our new center for healing and transformation within walking distance of our Escondido headquarters.

Transforming an existing motel property, the new Abraham and Lillian Turk Recuperative Care Center will become the home of the Interfaith Post-Hospitalization Recuperative Care program and the new Interfaith Graduate Temporary Lodging program.

Meeting the Need

Interfaith Community Services plans to operate two distinct types of programs at the Abraham and Lillian Turk Recuperative Care Center, each helping people with temporary lodging while they seek transitional or permanent housing: Recuperative Care: Adults discharged from local hospitals without housing and in need of care.

Join Us in Helping Provide a Pathway to Stable Housing for Our Most Vulnerable Neighbors Interfaith Community Services is actively seeking donor support and partnership to bring The Turk Center to reality. We cherish gifts of all sizes and closely guard your wish to remain anonymous. At the same time, it is a wonderful opportunity to honor your family, business, organization or foundation by considering a naming opportunity at our new center.

Naming opportunities are available in recognition of gifts of all sizes towards this project. Pledges can be paid over multiple years. All gifts supporting the completion of the Abraham and Lillian Turk Recuperative Care Center will be applied 100% toward the purchase and renovations.

550 W. Washington Avenue Escondido, CA 92025 760.480.6830 | interfaithservices.org

Graduate Lodging: Adults who have graduated from other Interfaith programs, including substance use treatment, homeless shelter, and recuperative care, and in need of temporary lodging.

Interfaith’s Recuperative Care Program (RCP) is currently a 32-bed, 24/7 facility, providing communitybased transient lodging care and treatment for individuals experiencing homelessness and needing further recuperation when being discharged from local hospitals. We have measurable success supporting people in overcoming crises through our programs and services, and our existing 32-bed Recuperative Care center is at capacity.

The Abraham and Lillian Turk Recuperative Care Center will support relocation and enable RCP to expand to 54 total beds. In addition, it will create critically needed Graduate Lodging, providing 33 rooms for graduates of Interfaith’s programs who are still seeking transitional or permanent housing.

Learn more: www.interfaithservices.org/turkcenter For more information about this project or other Interfaith areas of need, contact: Varinda Missett, Chief Development Officer vmissett@interfaithservices.org | 760.270.3422

Renovations to the center will convert a formerly 77 room budget hotel into a transformative and healing campus which will immediately provide: 54 beds Post Hospitalization Recuperative Care 33 residential rooms for Graduate Temporary Lodging

Each Graduate Temporary Lodging room can be converted to provide two Post-Hospitalization Recuperative Care beds, providing flexibility to expand by up to 66 beds, which would create a total of 120 Recuperative Care beds at the motel campus

Construction of new gurney-sized elevator Creation of 8 ADA residential rooms for Recuperative Care & Graduate Lodging residents Multi-Purpose Dining Hall and Programming Center Resident Computer Lab Nursing exam rooms & resident meeting rooms Offices for all on-site supportive social services and medical staff Resident common areas and group meeting rooms Outdoor rest and relaxation centers, including a healing garden terrace

“INTERFAITH MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE HELPING ME GET OFF THE STREETS”

How To Get Involved NAMING OPPORTUNITIES AMOUNT NAME

# OF GIFTS

# AVAILABLE

$1,000,000 The Center

1

Committed

$400,000 The Garden

1

Committed

$250,000 A Building

3

2

$100,000 Computer Lab, Entry Way,

4

3

Game Room, Dining Area

(Entry Way Committed)

$50,000 Terraces, Food Pantry

3

3

$25,000 Elevator

1

1

$15,000 Gallery Wall

30

30

$10,000 Client Rooms

55

55

$1,000 Pillars of the Community

200

200

$500 Pathway Pavers

500

500

COMING SOON

SPRING 2021

SUMMER 2021

Giving Opportunity “GO” Boxes Call-A-Thon Volunteer Garden Day

Family Scavenger Hunt Golf Tournament with The Friends of La Posada Volunteer Spruce Up Day

FALL 2021

VIP Receptions Grand Opening

MAKE YOUR GIFT TODAY: Visit interfaithservices.org/donate or mail your donation to 550 W Washington Ave, Escondido, CA. Please note “Turk Center” on your check or select in the drop-down menu online.

What is a Capital Campaign?

A capital campaign is a targeted fundraising effort designed to raise funds for a specific project. These concerted community efforts often support building projects that require raising substantial funding in a short time frame.

Project Timeline 1

2

Planning Phase

3

4

Kick-Off Phase

January 2020 September 2020

Grand Opening

March 1, 2021 April 2021

Silent Phase

September 2020 February 2021

5

September 2021

Public Phase

March 5, 2021 September 2021

Media Coverage

Interfaith prepares to open healing place, housing for homeless - The San Diego Union-Tribune March 15, 2021

By Gary Warth The Pandemic Paused Efforts to Provide Post-Hospital Care for the Homeless - Voice of San Diego The Pandemic Paused Efforts to Provide Post-Hospital Care for the Homeless The recuperative care resources that regional leaders agreed were needed before the pandemic largely haven’t materialized. In the meantime, the flow of homeless patients into local emergency rooms has continued – and some homeless San Diegans have been forced back onto the street.

March 2, 2021 By: Lisa Halverstadt New ‘Hotel of Healing’ Planned For Homeless In Escondido | KPBS Thursday, October 15, 2020

By Tania Thorne New ‘Hotel of Healing’ Planned for Homeless in Escondido, California - Economic Hardship Reporting Project Thursday, October 15, 2020

By Tania Thorne Interfaith buying motel to offer housing, place of healing for homeless - The San Diego Union-Tribune The Escondido service provider also is starting a new program to help faith leaders address racial inequality.

September13, 2020

By Gary Warth

Varinda Missett Chief Development Officer vmissett@interfaithservices.org 760.270.3422

Interfaith Community Services 550 W. Washington Ave Escondido, CA 92025

Learn More: www.interfaithservices.org/turkcenter

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