Terrible place. Great if you like to be treated like a naughty four year old by ex drug addicts and lushes who now run the houses. This is not a "shelter" this is a Program designed to strip you of all your freedom, rights, and happiness. If you ARE homeless and seeking help with housing and employment you will not get it until you throw away over a year of your life going to drug/alchohol AA/NA classes and thier extremely unstimulating "bible study" classes morning, noon and night. Your whole day will be drug classes, bible study, and chores for OVER A YEAR. So ok maybe a hard core dope addict or alchy may need a place like this in order to get thier kids back. But a person simply needing supportive housing and employment opportunities will not have thier needs addressed. You will have to suffer through the full program just like the junkies. No if andsor buts. YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED DRUG ADDICT. Also I must mention that the bible studies are not taught by lisenced, educated biblical scholars or parishoners. They are presented to you by undereducated ex convict/addict house moms who dont knoe s--t about teaching the bible accurately. Doesnt the bible warn about people who take on the respondsability of Gods teachings and that they better be sure they know what they are talking about and teaching lest they be held accountable??? Well these folks arent worried about throwing thier lack of knowlege at you about the bible. And dont let me forget to mention the main holy rollers who run the place. He is always crying and she claims that the very first night she ever picked up a bible and took it home (in her 30's) that very night Jesus came to her in her bedroom doorway and she became his wife......Uh and she still yet wasnt a believer. Uh ok. After that I just knew I was in the wrong place. So if you like cult/commune living. Then this is the place for you. If you need extensive drug/alchohol rehab and losts and lots of God and chores stuffed in. Then this is the place for you. If you need a job and housing...NOT the place for you. Oh yeah and did I mention your cell phone taken away for 8 MONTHS???? Oh yes. And if you have kids in school the school will NOT be able to reach you on the "house phone" because the most power hungry house mom will always have it locked and besides you will not be near it to hear it ring, and neither will anybody else because you will be immersed in thier "program" . So when there is an emergency at the school you will be unable to be contacted like I was. And the office is never open or answers the phone on a regular basis. Its just not the place for goal oriented ambitious people. Its for broken, last resort, no other options people. And last of all. If you do not retrieve your cell phone immediately upon exiting they will stael it from you and not return any of your calls. Which is what happend to me. I left messages for my case worker, the front office, etc... and no one returned my call. So they are also thieves. Everything about the place was given to them free. The buildings, materials, labor, plumbing. electric, counters, toilets, showers, everything was free to them and they covet it as if it was thier own. They are all dressed in sheeps clothing and something else underneath. Anyone with anything good to say about Shepherds Gate in Livermore must work there. Thats all I have to say. They sucked. And they are bitches from hell. read more