Posted September 30, 2025
DOORWAYS | 1101 N. Jefferson Avenue | St. Louis MO 63106
DOORWAYS Participates in Pride Fair in Tower Grove Park September 27-28, 2025
Thank you to all the DOORWAYS employees and the many volunteers who welcomed visitors to the agency’s booth throughout the weekend.
St. Louis, MO – Each year, DOORWAYS provides information on agency services to guests attending the Tower Grove Pride Fair. Pride 2025 was a vibrant two-day community-powered festival in Tower Grove Park.
Celebrating community, connection, and inclusion, this year’s program ran Saturday, September 27, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, September 28, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It featured hundreds of vendor booths, many food selections, music on multiple stages, and the People’s Joy Parade Sunday at 1 p.m.
Sponsored by #STLMADE, attendance numbers have not yet been announced, however, Pride 2024 welcomed an estimated 17,000 people.
ABOUT DOORWAYS
Founded in 1988, DOORWAYS provides housing and 360 degrees of wrap-around services to people at the intersection of poverty, homelessness, and illness from HIV. Each year, we serve approximately 3,000 clients and family members in 124 counties spread across Missouri and Illinois. Expanding over the years to meet growing depth and breadth of need, DOORWAYS evolved from a hospice caring for the dying to an agency building lives for the living. We currently own 11 buildings with 219 apartments offering five housing platforms—emergency housing, flexible housing, assistive housing for those too ill to live independently, permanent housing, and, to prevent homelessness for people in their own accommodations, rent/utility subsidies.
Housing is supplemented by empowerment services to build the social determinants of health (housing, health, food security, employment/income, education, community, etc.) that are needed to advance towards a life of opportunity and independence. We use individualized case management, resource referrals, self-development programming, employment support, behavioral health counseling, and psychiatric care. To remove barriers to essential resources, we have arranged to have a BOCA Pharmacy and a Key Clinic on campus. Both are open to anyone in the community who wishes to use these services. Pairing a clinic next to a pharmacy strengthens the circle of care.
Through this mix of services to stabilize housing, health, and hope, clients begin their journey toward a more self-directed life. Once housed and linked with their care coordinator, clients are encouraged to comply with an HIV-medication regimen that can help them attain undetectable status. When HIV is undetectable, life span and quality of life improve for the individual. Additionally, undetectable means untransmittable (U=U), stopping new cases–opening the door to ending HIV in future generations.
For more information, please review this website or contact the agency at info@doorwayshousing.orgs
