Provide Shelter:
Terms like emergency shelter and transitional housing are common among the housing programs providing housing services to individuals and families who are homeless. This type of housing is time limited and though it will provide respite, often there is not enough support and intervention to end a family’s poverty. This falling back into the cycle of homelessness reflects limits on housing programs, not a failure of the family or individual. The ladder out of chronic poverty and persistent homelessness requires achieving and strengthening one level before moving successfully to the next. Shelter Care Ministries is committed to self reflection and evaluation of our housing programs in our commitment to recognizing the extraordinary and complex needs of families, as well as developing a process for moving towards health and wholeness.
Awaken Hope/Honor Dignity:
The housing staff at Shelter Care believes that people are whole and complete — that they have natural resources, and when given support and coaching will move to a place of hope and achievement for themselves and their children. This takes time, resources and space for people to discover they have the ability to plan and shape the path they will travel on in the future, and that circumstances are merely opportunities for reflection and re-framing.
Shelter Care is unique in that it houses families together, keeping mothers and fathers with their children or single moms or dads with their children together in one unit. The current eligibility is that parents must have children in their custody.
Shelter Care offers the following housing programs:
Emergency Shelter– average 3-6 months – 4 units
Transitional Housing – Up to 24 months -6 units
Rapid Rehousing – 8-12 families housed and supported at a time
Our Housing Program staff works with residents in partnership always honoring the resident’s agenda, while holding accountability structures that support converting breakdowns to breakthroughs.
Effective January 1, 2015, Shelter Care Ministries no longer takes applications for its housing programs. All families who are homeless and interested in our housing programs must contact the Single Point of Entry at 844-710-6919 or visit their office at 612 N. Church Street., Rockford, IL 61103.