The Salvation Army's Railton Place, clean and sober living, is a brand new 110 unit, transitional and permanent residence for the homeless. Of these units, 27 are provided to young adults between the ages of 18-24 who have aged out of the foster care system. Another 83 units are available to chronically homeless adults and veterans. Program services include case management, substance abuse counseling, plus help with cooking, education, employment, and money management through the life skills program. Some of the workshops/classes we offer and will be offering include: cooking classes, education workshops, computer classes, art support groups, music support groups, smoking cessation groups, etc.

To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.

William Booth

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About Railton Place

Mrs. Joan Kroc and her husband Ray-founder of McDonald's-were long-time supporters of The Salvation Army. During the 1950's and 60's, Ray volunteered as a bell ringer and used to deliver hot coffee and hamburgers from his Golden Arches restaurant to bell ringers along Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. Mrs. Kroc remembered hearing her family talk around the dinner table about how The Salvation Army helped people during the depression and she was very impressed. She made her first large gift - in excess of $90 million in the 1990's to establish the first Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in San Diego. In 2004, she bequeathed $1.5 billion to The Salvation Army to build similar community centers across the country. The Kroc Center in San Francisco was dedicated in 2008 and is the first of approximately 25-30 centers to be opened. The Kroc Center is Joan Kroc's vision-achieved through The Salvation Army-to provide underserved kids and families with recreational and spiritual opportunities.

I want my gift to convey to the world my trust in The Salvation Army

Joan Kroc

In 2004, Joan Kroc donated approximately $1.5 billion to The Salvation Army, specifically for the development of community centers across the country, similar to the landmark Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in San Diego. This $60 million center is the largest redevelopment project The Army has undertaken in its more than 125-year history in San Francisco.

The Salvation Army is serving more than 2,000 people annually at the 135,380 square-foot Kroc center in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco with an array of recreational and educational components for youths and adults open to the public at low cost.

Some of these features include: a college regulation gymnasium with Desso Armstrong Linoleum Line of Multipurpose Sports Flooring, dance studio, fitness center, climbing wall, outdoor courtyard, activity rooms for mentoring and education, a swimming pool and a traditional Salvation Army worship center. There is also a state of the art game room, computer lab and library.