Georgia Travis of Los Gatos died at the age of 93 on March 12, 2002. A Social Worker, she was an outspoken advocate of care for the growing homeless population in Silicon Valley, especially women and children. InnVision's drop-in day center in San Jose bears her name.

Most guests at the InnVision Georgia Travis Center are walk-in homeless women with children who have heard of the program by word of mouth or have been referred by social service programs. Self help workshops, a computer lab, counseling, linkages to other community services, showers, laundry facilities, plus basic services such as food, clothing, and health care are provided with compassion and respect.

Georgia Travis was born in 1908. In 1931, armed with a Master's Degree from the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration, she set out on a long and illustrious career in medical social work that took her from the remote valleys of rural Tennessee and the dust bowl of the Depression to the faculty of San Diego State University. She retired in Northern California in the 1970s, only to begin a "new" career in the 1980s as a powerful advocate of care for the growing number of homeless. Her professional history provides a record of mid-20th century development of medical social work in America, and also of a remarkable life of caring for the country's sick and poor-especially for other people's children.

We thank Georgia Travis for her life's work.