Episcopal Community Services' Timeline In 1974, ECS Senior Services (located at Canon Kip Community House) began working with the neighborhood elderly who were then primarily Filipino. Today ECS Senior Services serves over 1,000 seniors annually, including 250 homeless elders. In January 1983, ECS began providing homeless individuals with nightly shelter, starting with 40 cots in Grace Cathedral and expanding to 500 beds. Today, ECS's shelters include: The Sanctuary, one of the largest and most respected shelters in the city; the fully-case-managed "Next Door" shelter; and a winter shelter rotating between four volunteer churches. In 1986, remedial and job readiness classes began in the shelters as a forerunner to the ECS Skills Center which opened at the Canon Kip Community House in 1994, and now serves 900 homeless or extremely low-income students yearly with adult education, vocational, and computer classes at multiple sites, including two shelters, two supportive housing sites and the main Skills Center campus at Canon Barcus Community House. In 1994, ECS opened Canon Kip Community House, San Francisco's first permanent supportive housing program for homeless adults with disabilities. Beginning in 1996, ECS made a commitment to employ formerly homeless individuals when possible. Today more than 50% of ECS employees were formerly homeless and occupy positions at all levels within the agency. In 1998, the ECS's CHEFS program began preparing homeless adults for employment in food industry and today maintains an 80% job success rate for CHEFS graduates. In 2002, ECS opened Canon Barcus Community House, a model supportive housing site with 47 units for homeless families, serving over hundred homeless children. In 2006, ECS has grown to ten supportive housing sites providing a permanent home and on-site support services to over 1,000 formerly homeless individuals. The stability of a home and the array of on-site services enable beneficiaries to begin to address those factors arising from or contributing to their homelessness.