In a response to the need for safe, warm shelter for homeless individuals and families in the Phoenixville area, a group of community partners from various organizations met and planned the pilot Code Blue Center program - initially knowns as the Code Blue Ministry of Phoenixville. Doors to the Center opened on Monday, January 2016 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) in time for a large blizzard. Code Blue operated for 11 weeks, 7 days a week from 8PM to 8AM, and served 48 homeless men, women, and children.

With the adoption of the Code Blue Overnight Emergency Warming Center as a program of Ann's Heart, the Board of Directors decided to hire the first staff person for the organization - an Executive Director. The new Executive Director was hired and began work on September 1, 2019, establishing an Ann's Heart office at 148 Church Street, Phoenixville, PA.

After a lengthy renovation process, construction was finalized and we were granted the final certificate of occupancy for the Sacred Heart Church Hall's use at the Code Blue Overnight Emergency Warming Center.

Challenged by an anonymous donor who believed in our vision for the Sacred Heart School's re-imagination into the HEART, Ann's Heart led and successfully completed a year-long capital campaign to raise $50,000 from area donors in order to receive a full $50,000 match. This was a great accomplishment as this was the first Capital Campaign ever completed by Ann's Heart.