Underground Railroad

Supportive housing: the Underground Railroad (urr) offers three types of supportive housing for victims of domestic violence or sexual assault who need relocation assistance. Rapid rehousing is a six month scattered site housing assistance program that allows victims to transition from unsafe housing directly into a new housing situation (13 families served). Transitional housing is a 24-month housing assistance program for victims leaving shelter who need longer term assistance gaining financial independence. Housing is provided in either five apartments owned by urr or in scattered site rental units (90 families housed). Permanent supportive housing is a long term program housing program for survivors who have disabilities. The participants are housed in five homes located in the city of saginaw owned by urr; (10 families housed).

Children's services: the Underground Railroad (urr) offers three programs for children. Girls on the run (gotr) great lakes bay is a local council of gotr international, which is a national program for elementary and middle school girls. Urr's program is offered in the fall and spring at schools in saginaw, bay, arenac, tuscola, huron, midland, gladwin, clare, and iosco counties. Girls learn to make healthy choices and be joyful in a program that incorporates running and walking to build confidence and self-esteem. The spring 2023 program concluded with 137 girls participating in the dow runwalk. The fall 2023 program concluded with 133 girls participating in the girls on the run great lakes bay 5k.urr operates a state licensed childcare for residents of our emergency shelter and transitional housing programs and for non-resident victims who are attending group or individual counseling sessions (7,922 units provided). Individual and group counseling is available for children impacted by domestic violence (92 children served).

Domestic violence programming: the Underground Railroad (urr) is saginaw county's only domestic violence victim service agency. Services are provided for primary and secondary victims free of charge. These services include 24 hour helpline (2,942 calls); 46 bed emergency shelter (12,304 nights of shelter); individual crisis/supportive counseling (17,441 units); group counseling (784 unit); legal advocacy (3,400 court cases accompanied); personal protection order advocacy (529 ppos); and supervised visitation (93 families served).

Sexual assault intervention and prevention: the Underground Railroad (urr) provides advocacy, counseling and prevention education programming. Services are provided for primary and secondary victims free of charge. These services include 24 hour helpline (55 calls); individual supportive counseling (760 units); and supportive services(496 units). Victim's services are provided at various locations on the east side of the city of saginaw. Prevention education programming is offered at k-12 schools and summer camps throughout saginaw county. Programming includes bullying prevention and healthy relationship curriculums (3,830 participants).resale store: the Underground Railroad (urr) operates a resale store as a revenue source to support its programs and services and to provide clothing and household items free of charge to clients $35,614 client vouchers.