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- EIN 74-3038890
- (414) 831-0394
- 845 N Van Buren St Milwaukee WI 53202-3918 USA
- www.cathedral-center.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Christianity, Religion
Mission: To provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness, one life at a time. The cathedral center serves women and families who are homeless or experiencing a housing crisis. Clients served primarily come from the milwaukee county area, though services are extended to those from the tri-county area - and even some from out of state. Unaccompanied women and families with dependent children (including married couples, single fathers and single mothers) are provided emergency shelter services, as well as case management services which include a comprehensive assessment, independence planning, supportive services such as mental health and addictions assessments and brief intervention, as well as outreach to homeless families and linkages with services in the community.
Programs: The cathedral center operates an emergency shelter with the capacity of providing temporary shelter to 32 individual women and 8 families each night - with an additional capacity for 10 women in our cot based overflow shelter during periods of extreme weather. Additional emergency and flexible housing services are provided at a 2nd location, at the friendship house. This location has the capacity to provide emergency housing services for up to 8 families and 4 women each night. Case management services are provided to those residing in shelter, emergency & flexible housing, as well as those who are temporarily stabilized in the community via our community case management and outreach services. Cci measures success based on the accomplishment of goals related to income, housing and personal skills, as well as removal of potential barriers to identified goals. Cci serves nearly 1,000 women and families in crisis each year. Our team was successful in aiding 75% of shelter families, 61% of unaccompanied women in shelter, as well as 68% of community families and 63% of community singles to avoid shelter via securing safe housing. In 2017, 95% of total households exiting friendship house left for a safe placement and 39% increased their income through employment and cash benefits. We are proud to report that cci staff has been successful in responding to a higher needs population, while sustaining success in safe placement rates, with 59% of all shelter households leaving shelter to safe placements - of which 56% moved directly to permanent/independent housing. As well, 19% of single women and 37% of shelter families increased their income during their stay with cci. Of the families in the community, 36% increased their income - as well as 35% of single women in the community. Finally, but not of least significance, community case management services aided 68% of families and 63% of single women in avoiding a shelter stay altogether.