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Provides an emergency shelter with daily amenities, clothing, transportation and medicine as needed. Can assist residents with benefits entitlement, employment help, group counseling, education and training for self-sufficiency.

Provides a drug and alcohol free environment for veterans to identify the barriers to obtaining and maintaining housing. A case manager works with each veteran through support, advocacy and one-on-one life skills training to help them achieve their goals.

Assists individuals and families experiencing homelessness and to provide the services needed to help those in need move into transitional and permanent housing, with the goal of long-term stability.

Provides a transitional housing program with a longer-term option for eligible candidates. Offers individualized support services, including budget counseling, educational workshops, and information and referral to other community resources.

Provides short-term host homes as an intervention for youth who are currently experiencing homelessness. Also helps find subsidized housing for qualifying youth. Youth receive access to benefits and resources within the community as an additional benefit.

Offers temporary supportive housing. Assists consumers with connecting to supports and community resources in an effort to obtain permanent housing.

Provides temporary emergency shelter. Provides men with food, shelter, spiritual counsel, casework, and networking.

Offers women to pair with an advocate who counsels and directs them in developing and implementing a personal goal plan. Some of these goals include greater self-determination, establishing a source of income, and obtaining permanent housing. The advocates provide supportive listening and identify problems or issues and offer possible solutions. Also provides accurate information, referral and follow-up as necessary.

Helps homeless families obtain permanent housing while addressing the educational, vocational and social factors that contributed to their situation. Assists families in need and encourages self-sufficiency through a variety of programs and workshops over a 12 to 18 month period, covering health, driving, life skills, GED prep, and job readiness training.

Christian Organization that offers temporary housing. Provides a 3 to 6 month program that grows from temporary housing to moving out into their own apartment. Zero tolerance policy for drugs/alcohol 3 strikes policy with their clients 10:00pm curfew Requires weekly church attendance.

Provides safe, decent, single room occupancy at reduced rent for 13 single low-income, self-sufficient women. Supportive services include linkages to community resources and case management.

Provides safe, decent, single room occupancy at reduced rent for four(4) single, low-income, self-sufficient women. Supportive services include linkages to community resources and case management.

Provides case management, transitional housing and supportive services to homeless women and their children. Supportive services include case management, counseling, and schooling support for each child.

Offers transitional housing for individuals who have been recently released from Federal or State Department of Corrections.

Provides a 30 day emergency shelter for women, men and children, providing a safe place to stay while working to secure permanent housing, case management, life skills education, employment readiness, and financial literacy.

Supportive housing for chemically dependent and homeless men and women.

Provides transitional housing to any individual that is 18 years or older. 25 room occupancy, with one handicap accessible unit. Serves anyone from any area, not just Chester County.

Provides a thirty-day residence for parents and guardians with children 18 and under experiencing homelessness in Lackawanna County. Services include: shelter, case management, transportation, linkages to community resources, medical assessment, and health service referrals, and life skills through a trauma informed lens.

Operates a ten-unit scattered site transitional housing program for homeless women with or without children. Clients coming from the Center's Emergency Shelter or the Women's Resource Center Shelter receive rental assistance and supportive services while residing in scattered site apartments. Services include: case management, assistance in acquiring safe housing, rental and utilities assistance for up to 12 months, life Skills training and goal setting, furniture and household items, emergency food and clothing, art therapy, counseling and legal services, assistance with job training and education, linkages to community agencies, and recreational opportunities.

Provides victims of domestic or sexual violence who are clients of the Women's Center and who need long term temporary housing support (up to one year) while they work toward goals that will enable them to achieve economic independence and secure affordable housing. Three apartments are available. Various supportive services are provided by program staff.

In partnership with other agencies, operates a transitional housing program for women leaving prison. The program identifies women from the Lackawanna County Prison who might effectively use this opportunity to change the direction of their lives, and offers alternative housing options and support services for up to one year. The ultimate goal of this program is to empower women to sustain independent living following their release from prison. Services include: group sessions in pre-release phase, intensive case management, assistance in finding safe housing, setting measurable goals with each client, assistance in finding employment and job training, rental assistance up to one year, assistance in moving, procuring furniture and personal supplies, art therapy, linkages to community services, assistance in being reunited with children, and recreational activities. All services are provided free of charge.

Provides communal housing to assist homeless individuals with mental illnesses who are active members of society and want to live independently. Those who benefit most are persons who may not be able to afford things like rent, food, transportation and utilities on their own, but could do so with the help of other house mates. Lodge members share in the day-to-day experiences of running a home, and do so more affordably than if they lived on their own. Lodge members create their own house rules and manage their own activities. Lodges are member-managed. Staff assist only as needed and are available in emergency situations.

Provides transitional housing to help families achieve sustainable independence through safe shelter and services by a collaborative network of community organizations. Case Manager works with each family to plan their rapid return to independent housing. Helps with the services a family might need, such as: securing housing, employment, job training, and connecting to services. Pets with a Promise allows families to keep their pets while working towards independence in the program.

The Path to Autonomy Safe House is a short-term emergency shelter for female-identifying survivors of human trafficking. The program includes case management, individual and group therapy, psychoeducational groups, life skills workshops, and mentorship.

Operates 36-bed shelter for families experiencing homelessness, including couples and parents with children, who may have been evicted, victims of fire or domestic violence, or stranded in the city and in need of shelter. Crisis intervention is provided. Bridge Housing Program provided for families who have completed the Emergency Shelter Program.