Deep Roots

Ending homelessness one family and one child at a time - in addition to serving as a homeless shelter for children and families in the community, Deep Roots strives to break the generational cycle of homelessness. Our program encourages children and their parents to envision a brighter future, to sustain healthy relationships, and to navigate a course towards personal and social responsibility. Through better life experiences, with mentors, and by providing healthy life-models, education, and supports, Deep Roots seeks to show our families that homelessness is not destiny. Ending poverty and homelessness begins with the building of community, relationships, and in genuine human meeting - beyond barriers of race, class, and religion. Community enriches all our lives, and the lives of our children; it lays the foundation for the gentle and peaceable world we long for: one in which the violence of poverty and homelessness have no more place. Additional accomplishments beyond our shelter services include a full service soup kitchen providing three meals a day to all shlter residents or anyone else in need, and intensive case management programming to promote self-sufficiency and independence for the families we serve. We also provide a comprehensive employment program for adults, as well as a family rehousing program. Lastly, and in addition to the extended support services Deep Roots continues to provide to alumni families after they have successfully moved off the shelter and into permanent housing, we offer a children's program which includes after-school classes, tutoring, mentoring, events, and field-trips for the children and their families.

Deep Roots works with children, who are disconnected through homelessness or other similar marginalization: connecting hearts. Our program challenges children to envision a brighter future, to sustain healthy relationships and to navigate a course towards personal and social responsibility through better life experiences, with mentors, providing healthy life-models for relationships.