SHARE! Hosting Memorial Service for Janet Davis, Feb. 12

LOS ANGELES – SHARE! will honor the life of longtime friend, coworker and treasured community member, Janet Elizabeth Davis, by hosting a memorial service for her, Saturday, Feb. 12, at 2 p.m.

Davis passed away Saturday, Dec. 4. For the past eight years, she had worked as program coordinator at SHARE! Downtown Los Angeles, supervising peer specialists and building community, inspiring personal growth and change, and connecting people with self-help support groups, housing, jobs and volunteer opportunities.

According to SHARE! Founder and Executive Director Ruth Hollman: “Janet was an integral part of the Downtown Community, working with her team at SHARE! Downtown to inspire people to leave addiction and homelessness behind and join the recovery community. She was well loved by all and gave great hugs to all who wanted them. She will be sorely missed."

Seconding that, Camille Dennis, SHARE! program manager and Janet’s supervisor, said: “Janet was not only a co-worker but also a sister in recovery. Janet loved the Skid Row Community and went the extra mile to get people into self-help support groups for addiction and mental health issues. She made sure that anyone who wanted to get housed found a place immediately in SHARE! Collaborative Housing and got on with their lives. She loved the people in the Skid Row community as family, sometimes referring to them as ‘her babies.’”

Adding to the tribute, Maria Gonzalez, program manager of SHARE! Collaborative Housing noted: “Janet was keen on getting every homeless person housing as soon as they wanted it. She would call the SHARE! Collaborative Housing homeowners with the person needing housing on the phone and she would house them on the same day. Then she would keep following up with them to make sure they had the support they needed and were attending their self-help groups. Janet impacted so many lives. We all feel the loss tremendously.”

The memorial service will take place at SHARE! Downtown Los Angeles (425 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013), and be livestreamed via Zoom (Meeting ID 834 7298 0396 | Password: sharelove).

For more information about the service or to make an in memoriam donation to SHARE!, visit shareselfhelp.org or call (213) 213-0100.

About SHARE!
Since 1993, SHARE! the Self-Help and Recovery Exchange has served Los Angeles through self-help support groups and building communities which provide recovery and social support. Participants develop skills to cope with substance use, trauma, mental health disorders and dysfunctional relationships. SHARE!’s goal is to contribute to ending homelessness in Los Angeles by providing its successful model of housing those in need within the first couple of days of contact, and ensuring they are aware of the services available to them including self-help support groups. This proven formula provides homeless people a pathway out of poverty and a way back to becoming full participants in society. For more information visit shareselfhelp.org.