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Fall 2025
More Than Just a Makeover
In our Men’s Crisis Center, hope shines even brighter.
John Hazlewoodd will never forget the day he first stepped into the Day Room in the Mission’s Men’s Crisis Center. It was 2005, and his life was a mess. He hoped he was in the right place, but he was scared.
“I walked through a doorway and into a room that had four big round tables and plastic chairs around the tables and then one big TV in the corner,” he says. “It was very crowded, and I was very intimidated.”
Until recently, the Day Room in our Men’s Crisis Center hadn’t changed a lot since the Mission moved to this building in 1999—well, except for the predictable wear and tear. Given that the room is used hard, 365 days and nights every year (providing a combined 25,379 nights of shelter last year alone), it looked run-down and out of date.
But this year, the Day Room that John found so intimidating 20 years ago has been transformed.
This story is featured in the current issue of The Rescuer.
