Presbyterian Night Shelter
Mark Boerger currently serves as a Journey Home Guide for Housing Solutions at Presbyterian Night Shelter and as an Apartment Life Coordinator for Apartment Life, a nonprofit organization focused on community engagement. Boerger has extensive experience in case management and mentoring, having worked as an ERAP Compliance Specialist and ERAP Coach at Cornerstone Assistance Network, and as an Apartment Ministry Leader at West Fort Worth Center of Hope. Previous roles include Lead Case Manager and Case Manager at Presbyterian Night Shelter, as well as mentoring and outreach positions at Pathfinders. Boerger holds a Master of Divinity in Pastoral Counseling from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology from Angelo State University. Currently, Boerger is pursuing certification in Cybersecurity through Cisco Networking Academy and Tarrant County College.
Presbyterian Night Shelter
The Presbyterian Night Shelter is a place of trust, respect and caring for the homeless, helping them regain their quality of life. We serve the needs of the homeless while respecting their dignity. The Shelter is the only free area emergency shelter without length-of-stay restrictions. More than 4,300 individuals call the streets of Tarrant County home. Of these homeless, over 95% receive services from the Presbyterian Night Shelter sometime during the year. We served 4,439 homeless people in 2013. The Shelter is the largest provider of services for the area homeless population, supplying meals, beds and basic human care, case management and employment services to an average of 650 homeless clients each night of the week, every week of the year. Since it was founded 30 years ago by local Presbyterian ministers, it has provided more than 3 million nights of stay and served more than 5 million meals. The Shelter offers resources enabling clients to reenter mainstream society, and employs at least 30 homeless clients who handle day-to-day operations. Our mission is to lead the journey from homeless to home. Located east of downtown Fort Worth and one block south of East Lancaster on Cypress Street, the Presbyterian Night Shelter is a 5-acre campus of four facilities.