Program areas at Journey Home
The Journey Home provided hunger relief to the homeless and needy in the community through our community cafe program during 2023, we served meals seven days a week, providing over 30,000 meals, additionally, the community cafe program provided boxes of food staples, dairy and produce. Approximately 3,000 boxes were distributed to clients of our outreach center. The cafe bread room also provides bread and baked goods daily for clients to take as they leave the center. All of this is provided at no charge to the clients to meet basic nutritional needs as well as being an engagement tool for other programs.
The Journey Home assisted the homeless and needy and clothing, laundry, showers, hygiene items, medical assistance, transportation assistance, mail and phone service, computer lab, identification documents, counseling/coaching, financial assistance and service coordination through the outreach center.
The Journey Home provided overnight shelter, housing, case management and supportive services through our housing programs. Housing programs range in scope including cold weather, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention services which keep people from losing their housing and becoming homeless, re-housing of the homeless into marketplace housing, and our supportive services as they get back on their feet and reintegrate into community life. The shelter program operates seasonally from november to april. Other programs operate year- round.