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We are committed to empowering individuals whose life challenges have resulted in them living on the streets by providing guidance, promoting personal connections, driving collaboration, and delivering impactful solutions. Through this work, we strive to restore individual hope and dignity, foster healing, build resilience and create lasting change for our community. We are dedicated to supporting our homeless neighbors in gaining access to safe, humane places to dwell and the essential services they need, not just to survive, but to reach stability and achieve long term well being. Recognizing that every individual's journey is unique, we address the complex intersections of mental health, substance use, criminal justice involvement, and poverty with compassion, innovation, and strategic partnerships.

Originally founded in 1927 by All Saints' Episcopal Church to provide social welfare programs for the poor, elderly, sick, and "those who might otherwise be forgotten", Episcopal Community Services (ECS) expanded its scope in 1954 to provide programs to address the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all San Diegans. ECS was incorporated in 1955 and obtained its first government contract with San Diego County to provide counseling and jobs for men released from prison. Today, ECS provides more than $27 million in health and human services in the areas of homelessness, mental health, poverty, addiction and early childhood education to more than 8,000 clients in San Diego. Operating under its mission of serving God by serving those in need through programs that foster hope, dignity, and independence, ECS inspires children, empowers adults and transforms communities by providing vital, high-quality social services that encourage healthy interdependence. Every client is served regardless of ethnic background, culture, gender, age, sexual orientation or religious creed. The overarching goal of ECS is to provide services that build a bridge to a brighter future.