St Vincent De Paul Of Baltimore Inc

Homelessness & supportive housing servicesminimizing the length of time individuals and families experience homelessness is key to avoiding long-term, negative effects on both adults and children. For this reason, we make re-housing the central focus of all of our services for persons experiencing homelessness. For those who have experienced a crisis but are capable of sustaining housing, we employ best practices that involve short-term interventions including brief shelter stays, rapid re-housing, and homelessness prevention and shelter diversion services. For those who, due to disabilities or other circumstances, need more intensive and longer-term support to remain stably housed, we offer permanent supportive housing services. St. Vincent de paul of baltimore operates the following homeless services programs:sarah's hope family sheltersarah's hope is a 150-bed comprehensive, family shelter that provides 24 hour services for families experiencing homelessness in baltimore city. Sarah's hope offers emergency shelter and family-centered support services that provide immediate stabilization and help families quickly regain permanent housing, improve their economic health, and achieve self-sufficiency. Services at sarah's hope include intensive case management and service linkage, employment services and job placement, health screenings, on-site early head start, school referral, support and advocacy, and child and youth activities. Sarah's hope serves over 130 families each year.hannah more family shelterhannah more is an 85-bed comprehensive family shelter that provides 24 hour services for homeless families in baltimore county. Hannah more offers emergency shelter and family-centered support services that provide immediate stabilization and help families quickly regain permanent housing, improve their economic health, and achieve self-sufficiency. Services at sarah's hope include intensive case management and service linkage, employment services and job placement, health screenings, early childhood education and school referral, support and advocacy, and child and youth activities. Hannah more serves over 80 families each year.interim house family shelter interim house transitional family shelter with 32 beds in baltimore county serving 15 families per year. Interim house helps families prepare for living independently by providing intensive case management and supportive services, including helping families increase income and resources through access to mainstream benefits and employment. Beans & breadbeans & bread is a day resource center where persons experiencing hunger and homelessness can access low barrier services such as meals and, through effective client engagement strategies, are assisted with services that achieve positive outcomes in four core areas: housing, employment, substance abuse/mental health, and health care. Beans and bread serves more than 300 individuals each day.home connectionshome connections is a permanent supportive housing program that serves single adults and families with disabilities who have experienced long term, chronic homelessness. Home connections, founded in 2006, was one of the first programs in baltimore to adopt the "housing first" best practice approach, with is based on a philosophy that an individual's first and primary need is to obtain stable housing, and other issues that contribute to their homelessness can and should be addressed once housing is obtained. Home connections serves138 households at a time.front door, baltimore city front door is a rapid rehousing program that quickly moves families and individuals experiencing homelessness into market-rate rental units. Staff provides rental assistance, housing coordination services, flexible client assistance, workforce development services, and intensive case management to help households obtain and maintain housing. Front door, baltimore city provides services to 120 households annually. Front door, baltimore county front door, baltimore county is a rapid rehousing program that provides rental assistance, housing coordination services, flexible client assistance, and intensive case management to help households obtain and maintain housing. Front door, baltimore county provides services to 60 households annually.interim gardensinterim gardens is a scattered-site permanent supportive housing program located in baltimore county that addresses the immediate need for housing stability for 10 families who are experiencing homelessness and who have a head of household or child who have a diagnosed disability by providing permanent, stable, rent-subsidized housing coupled with intensive, in-home supportive services. Cottage avecottage avenue community contains sixteen, two- and three-bedroom homes clustered in a neighborhood setting in the park heights community of baltimore city. Cottage ave community provides families that previously have experienced homelessness with affordable permanent housing and supports their efforts to live independently in the community. Frederick ozanam housefrederick ozanam house contains four, four-bedroom units for larger families experiencing homelessness located at the beans and bread center in the upper fells point community of baltimore city and provides families with affordable, permanent housing and supports their efforts to live independently in the community.

Food access servicesmany of the clients we serve experience hunger on a frequent, if not daily, basis. A big part of the solution to hunger is increasing food access, and last year we provided more than 1.2 million meals. St. Vincent de paul of baltimore operates the following services to address the issue of hunger for our low-income clients: good harvest community kitchengood harvest community kitchen is our social enterprise that expands access to healthy food for children, adults, families, and seniors in group settings such as shelters, pre-schools, after school programs, summer camps, adult day care centers, group homes and senior centers. Good harvest prepares and delivers more than 5,000 nutritious meals each day throughout the greater baltimore region. Good harvest food service training good harvest operates a 12-week intensive food service training course that incorporates both classroom training and real food production experience at our good harvest community kitchen. By learning in a working production kitchen, students master the skills they need to achieve a more stable, successful career, and ultimately a better future for themselves and their families. Good harvest serves over 60 individuals each year.parish conferenceswe have 39 parish-based conferences that provide food assistance and operate food pantries, distributing more than $500,000 in groceries each year throughout the greater baltimore region.