"Getting Straight On Delancey Street"
Pacific Heights is San Francisco's most exclusive sectionand it looks it. Pretty young socialites walk their Afghan hounds along well-kept streets. Well-heeled business executives ride by in chauffeured Rolls-Royces. Baronial mansions overlook the rest of the city. The tenants of one of these mansions do not quite fit the neighborhood picture of opulent elegance: they are 170 former drug addicts and ex-convicts who have done time for crimes ranging from petty theft to armed robbery. Calling themselves the Delancey Street Family, these unlikely tenants have formed a new "therapeutic...
http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,906971,00.html
Another article re Delancey Street:
http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/grassroots/delancey/
Another article that shows Mimi Silbert as the founder of Delancey Street:
Project: Delancey Street Foundation
Location: San Francisco, Calif. U.S.A.
In 1971 Mimi Silbert founded
Delancey Street with four residents, a thousand dollar loan and a dream. She envisioned a place where substance abusers, former felons and others who had hit bottom would, through their own efforts, be able to turn their lives around.
Silbert has since built an empire grossing 20 million dollars a year with locations in New York, New Mexico, North Carolina and Los Angeles. She has never accepted a single penny of government funds.
http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/silbert.html
I wonder if it would be worth trying to contact Ms. Silbert to see if anyone from her organization might know if Rose ever joined Delancey Street?
Here's some contact info re Ms. Silbert:
Delancey Street Foundation
Dr. Mimi Halper Silbert, President
600 Embarcadero
San Francisco, Calif. 94107
(415) 957-9800
This well-known and widely praised program literally seems almost too good to be true. Visualize this: A full square block of stylish new stucco and tile buildings on
San Francisco's busy Embarcadero, featuring nearly 200 pricey-looking townhouses, well-kept parks, a Town Hall, small businesses and a fancy restaurant with a maitre-d' standing proudly at the door -- staffed entirely by ex-convicts, former drug abusers and formerly homeless people, some 450 of these folks pulling themselves up by the bootstraps through an organization that they run themselves, led by an unpaid staff of exactly one: Co-founder and President/CEO Mimi Silbert.