Denver · since 1980
Helping homeless achieve independence
Sacred Heart House of Denver helps single moms with kids and single women experiencing homelessness become self-sufficient.
Need a safe place? Call (303) 296-6686
Make a difference for women who need a safe space
When giving to Sacred Heart House, your donation goes directly to helping homeless families, moms and their kids, as well as single women experiencing homelessness become self-sufficient. Just a little goes a very long way! Our goal is to keep children healthy and in school, provide food on the table, and a roof over their heads.
Have something to donate? See the needs list
How you can help, or get help
Need a safe place
After a telephone interview with a case manager, a woman comes to Sacred Heart House of Denver for an intake interview and becomes a resident the same day.
Give
Just a little goes a very long way! Your donation will help women and children in Denver leave homelessness behind.
Donate items
Have something to donate? Gift cards and supplies like diapers, deodorant and toilet paper are always needed.
Volunteer
Trained volunteers stay with residents from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. each evening, and while securing the House, provide support in conversation without judgment, as friends; they also provide child care during Life Skills classes.
A holiday Adopt-a-Family Program gives families, businesses and churches the opportunity to share their joy with those less fortunate.
How we help Denver homeless families
In 2024, Sacred Heart House of Denver impacted the lives of 1,204 women and children and their families experiencing or recovering from homelessness through its In-House Stabilization, Follow-Up, and Transitional Housing Programs!
- Single Women
- 133
- Families
- 280
- Children
- 560
Programs to support homeless families
Sacred Heart House of Denver provides a number of services to homeless moms and kids as well as single women in need. These programs including the In-House Stabilization, Follow-Up and Transitional Housing Programs enable homeless women and their families to move to stable housing and become self-sufficient.
- In-House StabilizationOur services are offered in a home-like, life-giving, safe environment.
- Follow-Up ProgramSHH distributes emergency food boxes, cleaning supplies, birthday bags for children and bus tickets for transportation to access medical care, mental health services and housing appointments throughout the year.
- Transitional Housing ProgramOur 2-year Transitional Housing Program offers affordable living to mothers pursuing educational/job training goals.
About Sacred Heart House
Sacred Heart House of Denver was founded by Catherine Bevanda in 1980 after she learned the convent next to Sacred Heart School in lower downtown Denver had closed. Catherine, who came to Denver to study at Loretto Heights, supported herself by working at an orphanage and at Marycrest Convent, which was operating a skeletal homeless shelter at the time. Thinking she could expand on that idea in the abandoned convent, she opened its doors to those people in Denver, who, for one reason or another, found themselves homeless.
In April 1991, Sacred Heart House of Denver was incorporated in Colorado as a non-profit organization for charitable and educational purposes.
Over the past four decades, the programs at Sacred Heart House of Denver have become focused on meeting the needs of Denver’s most vulnerable population: single mothers with children and single women experiencing homelessness.
Read our history
To our supporters, thank you!
See the gallery
Thank You Letter 
Mother & Child 
Girls in blankets 
Mother & Baby
Get in touch
Send us a note, or call if you need a safe place today.
- Call
- (303) 296-6686
- Visit
- 2844 Lawrence Street, Denver, CO 80205
- PO Box 1679, Denver, CO 80201
- Fax
- (303) 296-2903