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Mission: Our mission is to provide food and shelter to families and individuals in need; to prevent homelessness
Programs: Transitional family shelter: at our shelter, we provide short term housing for homeless and at risk families. Most stays are around 90 days. Our transitional shelter consists of two homes - a one family, four bedroom home and a two family house with both a three bedroom and a two bedroom unit. At capacity, our three apartment units can shelter up to 18 people at any one time. Our goal is to support and maintain the family as a unit, provide case management and to assist our families to obtain safe, affordable housing. Our utmost priority is to keep each family intact so that they can maintain the normal rhythm of family life. Our families work with our social worker in cooperation with other services to obtain more stable, permanent housing and to identify causes that led to homelessness and resolve issues within the family. We accept families of an configuration, including inter-generational and extended families.
healthy community food pantry. Serving 800 household members each month, we provide a three day supply of healthy groceries to households in our community impacted by hunger with each visit, our goal is to provide healthy food including fresh produce, brown rice, low salt/sugar foods, meats as well as provide access to other services. Access to healthy food and combating hunger and poverty is just one of the obstacles facing our pantry members. We offer a full range of services including assista