Community-Based Correctional Facility
(CBCF)
Oriana House, Inc. is a nationally renowned chemical dependency
treatment and community corrections agency. The CBCF program
provides a highly structured and secure community sanction for
felony offenders and offers chemical dependency treatment, academic
assessments and opportunities, community service, and employment
training which are all imperative to the rehabilitation of
offenders. Offenders sentenced to CBCFs usually complete the
program in four to six months and are involved in a multi-tiered
treatment plan. There are four phases of programming and offenders
are given more responsibilities as they progress through the
phases. Oriana House, Inc., has an excellent record of putting
quality educational programs in place to better address the needs
of the client population they serve.
Louis Stokes Veterans Medical Center
(Domiciliary)
The Domiciliary Care for Homeless Veterans program (DCHV) and the
Health Care for Homeless Veterans program (HCHV). Both programs
provide outreach, psychosocial assessments, referrals, residential
treatments, and follow-up case management to homeless veterans.
Recent evaluations have found that these programs significantly
improve homeless veterans' housing, psychiatric status, employment,
and access to health services.
HAVEN OF REST TODAY
As the largest private social service organization in the Summit,
Medina, Portage, Stark, Tuscarawas, Wayne, Holmes Counties area,
Haven of Rest Ministries is widely recognized and respected for its
work among poor, homeless, and spiritually destitute people.
The men's day room is the entry point for homeless men to begin the rehabilitation process that will lead to the stabilization and reestablishment of their lives. As the homeless come in off the streets, they find a variety of essential services available to them, including laundry, showers, and mail pick-up. In addition, there are counseling rooms where they can meet privately with Haven of Rest staff or other social service agency workers to discuss problems and needs. Classroom space is also provided for life skills training, Bible studies, and group meetings. Testimonials
South Street Ministries is a congregation serving the Summit Lake community in Akron, OH. We started out in 1997 when Duane and Lisa Crabbs and their children- following the example of Jesus- "relocated" to the neighborhood they felt called to serve. They didn't set out to start a church, but as they lived with, loved, and served their new neighbors; a congregation grew up around them. These days we meet every Sunday for worship at noon in the Summit Lake Community Center (380 W. Crosier Street, Akron), but that's just the beginning of who we are and what we do. Check out this site to find out more about us. Better yet, come find out for yourself; we're a "church without walls, where the doors are always open!" Instead of hanging out on the streets, the young people hang out at South Street, playing basketball, getting tutoring, using computers, working on bicycles in the bike shop. Testimonials
Veterans Resource Center
Volunteers of America is committed to ending homelessness for those
already on the street and preventing others from becoming homeless.
Volunteers of America provides a wide array of well-designed and
managed services to meet the specific needs of homeless
veterans. Nearly 154,000 veterans are homeless on any given
night and twice as many experience homelessness during a year.
Right now, the number of homeless Vietnam era veterans is greater
than the number of service persons who died during that war.
Already, veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are appearing
in the homeless population.
Freedom House
Freedom House provides emergency shelter and supportive services to
adult male veterans who are experiencing a housing crisis.
Essential to our mission is improving the quality of life for our
residents by providing a 90-day shelter that includes individual
case management, advocacy, information and referrals to area
resources. The Resident Advocate meets regularly with the shelter
residents to establish a case plan that will focus on goal such as:
housing, income, job training, education, counseling, financial
planning and other goals. Housing Specialists are available around
the clock to answer the support line, admit new residents, and
provide a supportive environment to the homeless veterans staying
at the shelter.
Lakeside Men's Shelter
This shelter is the newest addition to Lutheran Metropolitan
Ministry, joining in January 2005. The shelter is in line with the
vision of LMM, called to stand in solidarity with those who are
oppressed, forgotten, and hurting of ALL faiths. LMM began nearly
40 years ago with the support of local Lutheran churches and
national church organizations. In the late 1960's, Rev. Richard
Sering was "called to serve" a grassroots effort that became known
as Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry