Two Decades of Impact at 3rd Street

For 20 years, 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic has expanded access, deepened connections, and created more pathways for young people across San Francisco to thrive.

Just Home, a new 9-unit transitional housing community developed by 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic, celebrates its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

"When community partners come together around the belief that every young person deserves safety, stability, and belonging, we create possibilities far beyond housing. Episcopal Impact Fund’s partnership helped bring Just Home to life: a place where young people can exhale, begin again, and imagine a future beyond survival. This is what it looks like to invest in young people with care, trust, and a commitment to walking alongside them." —Joi Jackson-Morgan, Chief Executive Officer, 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic

Founded in Bayview Hunters Point, 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic serves young people ages 12 to 27 with a model of care that is genuinely holistic. Through a full-service primary health clinic, mental health counseling, youth leadership and workforce programs, a TAY (Transition Age Youth) Navigation Center, and housing services, 3rd Street meets young people wherever they are — not with a single program, but with a whole ecosystem of support that grows with them from adolescence into adulthood.

Their approach is rooted in dignity: helping youth correct missteps without shame, honoring each person's unique history, and recognizing that lasting change often requires healing family relationships and confronting the systemic barriers — racism, disinvestment, housing instability — that so many of San Francisco's youth carry.

Watch 3rd Streets 20th Anniversary video — a story of commitment and growth.

That commitment to meeting young people's full range of needs is now visible in brick and mortar. Earlier this year, 3rd Street opened Just Home, a 19-unit transitional housing community at 3900 3rd Street, giving homeless and recently released young adults ages 18-27 a stable place to live for up to three years while they build the skills and connections needed for independence. It's the organization's newest of eight sites across the city, and a striking symbol of how far it has come: from a single storefront clinic to a full continuum of care that now includes a home of its own for the TAY community it has always centered.

At Episcopal Impact Fund, we are proud to walk alongside organizations like 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic. Their growth — from a neighborhood clinic to a citywide anchor for youth housing and health equity — reflects exactly the kind of durable, community-rooted change we hope to help make possible. As 3rd Street marks its 20th anniversary, we celebrate not just their history, but the young people in San Francisco who now have a safer, more hopeful path forward because of it.