Shelter Program

Introducing The Freedom House – A Homeless Shelter Helping Families in Need

The Freedom House can accommodate seven families, 22 people in total, at once. When families leave the shelter, they remain in the nonprofit’s follow up program for up to 12 months.

People who are eligible to be serviced in their shelter program are parents or legal guardians with minor children who are homeless or in imminent risk of becoming so.

Families must be willing to temporarily reside in a supervised communal living environment and the parents or legal guardians much be able to maintain fulltime employment.

Families who reside in the shelter can do so for 120 days before they need to move out, hopefully into their own home.

For the past four years the organization has been helping homeless families in need by allowing them to stay in a hotel, but knew that was not a permanent solution.

Shelter Program – Provides Support

Our guests are provided with temporary shelter during which time they receive:

• • comprehensive case management;
  • assistance in securing employment;
  • access to medical care, childcare, school placement;
  • support in locating affordable housing and;
  • transportation (if needed) to interviews, medical appointments, places of employment, childcare and school. 

The parents participate in our Life Skills Programs which provide guidance in:

• • household management;
  • parenting skills;
  • budgeting, and;
  • skills necessary to sustaining independence.

We provide our guests with a hand up, not a hand out.  We focus on the long term, not the here and now and our program is designed around that concept.

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