Services for Homeless Residents

 

 

Emergency Shelter:  Residents receive overnight and daytime housing, meals, and a range of support services they need such as clothing, hygiene assistance, parenting support, and case management.  Shelter residents whose needs are many and who will need help over a long period of time are encouraged to enroll in Transitional Housing.  Shelter residents whose homelessness is rooted in an addiction to drugs or alcohol are encouraged to enroll in substance abuse treatment.  In addition, while in that program, counselor’s help residents get referrals to needed area health and social services. Residents typically stay from thirty to ninety days.  

 

Transitional Housing:  Provides housing, meals and support services for up to two years to homeless women and their children, as well as men or women without children.  Support services available to residents include case management, children’s services, education services, employment assistance, the New Beginnings job and substance abuse treatment, aftercare mentoring program, health care, daily living skills training, mental health services, transportation, and twenty-four hours a day staff assistance throughout the year.  In addition the program offers permanent housing placement assistance to men who have completed the program.  Transitional Housing for Teen Moms also includes help with high school classes, tutoring, and staff assistance twenty-four hours a day throughout the year.  In addition the program provides housing placement assistance when teen mothers have completed high school.

 

Permanent Housing:  Is available for homeless families with a disabled head of household and children and homeless single men with one or more disabilities.  Services include housing in either an agency-owned apartment, Single Room Occupancy building, or two-family house. Services include case management, substance abuse treatment aftercare support, health care, mental health services, and daily living skills support.   Occupants pay thirty percent of their monthly income in return for housing.