Partner Agency Programs Supporting Valley of the Sun United Way’s Homelessness Strategies Agency Name
Program Name
Program Description
A New Leaf's Domestic Violence Services
A New Leaf’s domestic violence programs provide crisis intervention and shelter services to assist abused adults and their children with up to 120 days of shelter care, advocacy, case management and ancillary services.
A New Leaf, Inc.
La Mesita Child Development Center
The La Mesita Children’s Services program promotes and enhances physical, emotional, cultural, social and recreational development for preschool aged homeless children who reside with their families at the La Mesita family shelter.
A New Leaf, Inc.
La Mesita Shelter
The La Mesita Family Homeless Shelter provides emergency shelter and support services for homeless and working poor families. Services target housing, education and employment in an effort to assist family’s re-gain social and financial independence.
A New Leaf, Inc.
Mesa CAN's East Valley Men's Center-VSUW
The East Valley Men's Center provides the region's only emergency and/or transitional beds for homeless men, 18 and over. Services include basic and safe shelter, three meals daily, work assistance services and case management.
Arizona Housing, Inc.
Steele Commons Resident Service Coordinators -RSCs
The goal of the Steele Commons Resident Services Coordinator program is to ensure that formerly homeless individuals, especially those with special needs maintain their self-sufficiency and permanent affordable housing.
Catholic Charities Community Services (CCCS)
Dignity Domestic Violence Programs
Program provides shelter, case management, safety planning, counseling, and other related services for victims of sex trafficking and/or victims of domestic violence and their minor children.
A New Leaf, Inc.
www.vsuw.org
Central Arizona Shelter Services (CASS)
Emergency Shelter, Case Management and Child Care for Homeless Single Adults and Families
CASS provides emergency shelter, case management, employment services, child care and dental care for homeless single adults and families.
Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc.
De Colores Domestic Violence Program
Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence, Inc.
Domestic Abuse Shelter Service Programs
De Colores' mission is to provide a safe and secure environment, where families can recover from the devastating effects of domestic violence as they acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to become independent and break the cycle of violence. The program provides emergency shelter and transitional housing for adult victims of domestic abuse and their children. The services improve residents’ stability and self-sufficiency – core outcomes of the goal to stop terror in the home.
Community Bridges, Inc. (CBI)
Pathway to Hope
Community Legal Services, Inc.
Legal Aid for Individuals and Families in Crisis
Community Services of Arizona
Crisis Intervention Programs
Community Services of Arizona's(CSA) Crisis Intervention programs provide homeless prevention service including financial assistance, HUD certified foreclose intervention services and emergency home repairs.
Friendly House
Family Services
The Family Services department assists individuals and families to access needed services in a crisis situation through the provision of emergency food boxes, direct cash assistance, and referrals to other community agencies.
The "Pathway to Hope" program will help chronically homeless adults and families who struggle with substance abuse and mental health problems. CBI will focus on immediate needs, crisis care, shelter/housing, and a continuum of supportive services. Community Legal Services, a non-profit law firm, provides civil legal services, including direct representation in court, to eligible, low-income Maricopa County residents to resolve their civil legal problems impacting their basic human needs.
www.vsuw.org
Homeward Bound
Social Services for Homeward Bound
Labor's Community Service Agency
Emergency Relief Fund
Labor's Community Service Agency
Foreclosure Intervention
This program provides counseling, advocacy and arrearage assistance to low-income homeowners that are in jeopardy of losing their homes through foreclosure.
Labor's Community Service Agency
Transitional Housing
LCSA’s Transitional Housing program stabilizes and empowers homeless families by providing them with safe, transitional housing and comprehensive case management services.
Lodestar Day Resource Center
Lodestar Day Resource Center-VSUW
New Life Center
Emergency Shelter
The LDRC provides a safe, engaging, holistic community that empowers people to end their homelessness and create positive, long-term life changes. We welcome and engage, inform and connect to services, and empower clients to end their homelessness. In addition to a safe place to stay, we offer: advocacy with individual and group sessions for women and children; employment services; legal assistance; children’s program including art, music and recreation; transportation; and, outreach.
Phoenix Indian Center (PIC) Project Transitions
HB provides transitional housing and a 12-24 comprehensive social services program including client-centered, case management; employment services; mental health services; subsidized childcare; access to emergency pantries; and life skills programs. This program provides immediate cash assistance to working families in crisis situations. Examples of crisis situations are eviction notices, utility disconnections, and lack of food.
Project Transitions' professional case management services address the immediate threats to individual and family household safety while promoting the development of customer skill sets that foster selfsufficiency and community well-being.
www.vsuw.org
Phoenix Shanti Group, Inc.
HIV Homeless Transitional Housing
Promoting self sufficiency for homeless HIV+ individuals/families by providing supportive transitional 2-bedroom apartment housing (up to 2 years) in two Phoenix Shanti owned sites.
Save the Family Foundation of AZ
Comprehensive Housing and Supportive Services for Homeless Families
Save the Family, through its Homeless Families Intervention Project provides transitional housing, professional case management and supportive services to assist families in achieving financial, personal, parental and self-sufficiency.
Sojourner Center
Domestic Violence CenterVSUW
Sojourner Center’s mission is to overcome the impact of domestic violence, one life at a time. Services for victims of domestic violence include emergency shelter, transitional housing, and related support services.
Tempe Community Action Agency
Tempe Community Action Program
The Respite Shelter for Homeless Men, Inc.
The Respite Shelter
The Salvation Army
Elim House Domestic Violence Shelter
The CAP program assists low income Tempe residents and homeless individuals with a full range of basic needs that include: shelter, food pantry, homeless prevention assistance, weatherization, case management, and workforce development services. The Respite Shelter for Homeless Men is a temporary place of rest where nine homeless men may recuperate following their hospitalization for surgery, injury, or illness. We do provide case management to help guests follow up with medical problems. Elim House is an emergency shelter for women and children fleeing domestic violence. While staying at Elim House, families are provided with a safe place to live, three meals each day, and services needed to begin a new, independent, safe life.
The Salvation Army
Emergency Assistance Program
The Emergency Assistance Program (EAP) provides families with utility and/or rental assistance, as well as food boxes and vouchers during times of crisis.
www.vsuw.org
The Salvation Army
Homeless Services
Homeless Services is Kaiser Family Center and Project HOPE. Kaiser is a homeless family shelter. HOPE provides outreach to homeless individuals living on the streets.
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Ozanam Manor
Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development
Casa de & Centro Suenos, Young Men's Transitional Program & Open Hands
Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development
Phoenix Drop in Center and Tempe Youth Resource Center
St. Vincent de Paul's Ozanam Manor provides transitional shelter for elderly and disabled homeless adults with case management, mentoring and and group life-skill training activities to help participants obtain permanent housing and selfsufficiency. Housing and safe shelter for minors, runaway, homeless, and troubled youth. Programs also provide life-skills training, acculturation, counseling, case management, job development, tutoring and language development for youth ages 12 through 17. TCYD Drop-in Centers help abused and neglected youth ages 12 through 25 on the streets. Centers provide safe and nurturing respite for estranged youth, including former foster care, runaways, homeless, truant, or in other personal turmoil.
Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development
Young Adult Program & START
YAP and START provide subsidized housing and services to vulnerable and homeless youth ages 16 through 25. Youth receive a safe living environment, life-skills training, counseling and job development to transition into permanent housing.
UMOM New Day Centers, Inc.
UMOM Emergency & Transitional Shelter for Homeless Families
This program provides emergency (120 days) and transitional (up to 24 months) shelter for homeless women, men and children. It houses nearly 500 men, women and children nightly – 60% of whom are children age 0-15.
UMOM New Day Centers, Inc.
UMOM New Day Center's Child Care for Children of Homeless Families
UMOM's Childcare Program is designed to improve homeless children's academic success, social skills, self-image, and physical and emotional well-being by providing quality care and educational opportunities in a safe, nurturing environment.
www.vsuw.org