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Welcome to the Housing and Supportive Services Virtual Open House!Today's YWCA provides safe, affordable housing and supportive services for homeless families with children. Our programs in Housing and Supportive Services go beyond simply providing a place to live. At the YWCA, people stabilize their lives, decrease their dependency on emergency services and work to keep their families united and children safe. |
YWCA St. Paul has responded to the need for safe, affordable housing for more than 100 years!
Whether providing housing for single women, opening Minnesota's first emergency shelter for women and children, or the Twin Cities' first transitional housing program — we are proud to be the place that thousands of women and children have called home.
Today's YWCA provides housing and supportive services for homeless women, children and families.
A full spectrum of programs and services helps families to combat homelessness and work toward self-sufficiency.
Families also have the option of participating in other YWCA offerings like the Youth Achievers Program, Youth In Motion, IMPACT, the Health & Fitness Center, and special events.
YWCA St. Paul owns and operates 4 housing sites. Three of the sites house our Transitional Housing Program. The buildings are home to 36 families.
Putting homelessness in your past takes more than just a safe place to live.
Working closely with case managers and program staff, women stabilize their lives, build their skills and embrace changes that will help their families to move forward in life.
As moms learn budgeting, job search strategies and life skills...
...children participate in activities that support their growth and development.
It's hard work and a process that takes time. Families may elect to remain enrolled in the Transitional Housing Program for up to two years.
Although THP's three housing sites make it more visible in the community, more than half of the families served by YWCA Housing and Supportive Services are served through our Outreach programs.
Outreach programs provide intervention, stabilization, case management and other supportive services to help families succeed.
With supportive services and ongoing assistance from case managers, families secure housing in the community at sites including Legacy Management and Development's University-Dale and Winnipeg apartments and the YWCA's newest site, Cleveland-Saunders Supportive Housing.
No matter what program a family chooses, they find the same unwavering support and encouragement.
Within our walls, they find not only a place to call home, but the courage to start again.
We hope there will come a time when there are no more homeless families...
...until then, we will continue to meet community needs and fight homelessness.
One mother, one child. one family at a time.
