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How He Helps Heal The Chronically Homeless | Father Tim McCabe
Father Tim McCabe grew up blue collar in Detroit, worked construction, ran refugee programs, and spent years with people at the bottom before he ever put on a collar.
He was assigned to a day center for the homeless in 2015. But after five people died of fentanyl overdoses within a couple of days, his team sat together and someone said it doesn't have to be this way.
So he started building and he raised nearly $40 million without a donor database.
The Pope Francis Center now has a bridge housing facility designed around trauma, with wide hallways, natural light, on-site medical and psychiatric care, a full curriculum, and people graduating to housing.
Here's everything we covered:
→ Why trauma-informed care is the only approach that works for chronic homelessness
→ How he raised $13 million from a family in California who found him on a Google search
→ Why Housing First doesn't fix "habitual homelessness”
→ The moment he knew the building was going to happen
→ Where the work goes next: housing, trades, and ending the cycle for good
Father Tim didn't wait for permission, a budget, or proof it would work. He just started moving and kept going until the resources caught up.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:00 How We Met: A Hospital, a Saturday, and a Stranger Who Stayed
9:03 The Pope Francis Center and What It Was Before
14:54 Five Deaths in a Week: Why He Decided to Build
16:08 The Consulting Firm Said He'd Never Raise $3 Million
19:25 The Google Search That Led to $13 Million
23:36 What Trauma-Informed Actually Means in a Building
35:34 Father Tim's Life Before the Priesthood
41:23 Why Government Money Makes the Problem Worse
50:53 A Day in the Life Running a 37-Person Operation
55:37 What Comes Next: Housing, Trades, and Finishing the Bridge
~~~
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By Matt LoriaFather Tim McCabe grew up blue collar in Detroit, worked construction, ran refugee programs, and spent years with people at the bottom before he ever put on a collar.
He was assigned to a day center for the homeless in 2015. But after five people died of fentanyl overdoses within a couple of days, his team sat together and someone said it doesn't have to be this way.
So he started building and he raised nearly $40 million without a donor database.
The Pope Francis Center now has a bridge housing facility designed around trauma, with wide hallways, natural light, on-site medical and psychiatric care, a full curriculum, and people graduating to housing.
Here's everything we covered:
→ Why trauma-informed care is the only approach that works for chronic homelessness
→ How he raised $13 million from a family in California who found him on a Google search
→ Why Housing First doesn't fix "habitual homelessness”
→ The moment he knew the building was going to happen
→ Where the work goes next: housing, trades, and ending the cycle for good
Father Tim didn't wait for permission, a budget, or proof it would work. He just started moving and kept going until the resources caught up.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:00 How We Met: A Hospital, a Saturday, and a Stranger Who Stayed
9:03 The Pope Francis Center and What It Was Before
14:54 Five Deaths in a Week: Why He Decided to Build
16:08 The Consulting Firm Said He'd Never Raise $3 Million
19:25 The Google Search That Led to $13 Million
23:36 What Trauma-Informed Actually Means in a Building
35:34 Father Tim's Life Before the Priesthood
41:23 Why Government Money Makes the Problem Worse
50:53 A Day in the Life Running a 37-Person Operation
55:37 What Comes Next: Housing, Trades, and Finishing the Bridge
~~~
Connect with Matt
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattloria/
https://www.facebook.com/mattloria
https://www.instagram.com/loriamatt/
Prefer to Watch?
https://youtu.be/FPfT5vDdwRo
This episode is powered by Auxiom.
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