Program areas at Everyone Cooperating To Help Others
Food services - provides groceries from the food pantry, consisting of a week's supply of food for a family, once a month. Echo also serves people through its other food services, such as baby food, senior stock boxes, community meal, farmers market, thanksgiving groceries, christmas dinner, and emergency food at grocery stores. Echo also helps other pantries, nursing and group homes, senior centers, and other groups when they have an abundance of certain items, for example: bread, produce, snacks, etc.
Other services-includes transportation, household goods, personal supplies, school supplies, and much more. Just a few of these services include gasoline, bus tokens, school supplies, and christmas gifts To children through echo's christmas adopt-a-family program.
Housing services - housing services fall into two sub-categories, both of which include case management: lodging in motels and rent assistance. Rent smart is inherent in both parts of the housing program. Lodging in motels is provided To homeless people for 1-6 weeks. This plan is customized To the person's personal struggles and barriers To self-sufficiency. Rent assistance is usually one-month assistance once a year, unless the person is part of a grant-specific program allowing for multiple months of rent assistance, coupled with other support services and monthly case management. Case management is customized To the individual's needs and may include budgeting, credit, leases, communication, home care, tenant and landlord rights, linking To other community services, etc.