People in crisis have access to emergency food, shelter and financial assistance
Bold Goal: Ensure that 100% of the people who access our community emergency support systems receive food, shelter or short-term financial assistance.
Strategies
- Access: People have 24/7 access to a coordinated system of crisis services
- Intervention: People receive food, shelter, and/or financial assistance to resolve an immediate crisis
- Linkage to Stabilization: Beyond the immediate crisis, people are linked to programs, services or systems so future crises do not occur
Programs
American Red Cross
Service to Military Families
These services, provided around-the-clock, consist primarily of Emergency Communications which contain objective, timely, confidential, and verified information regarding emergencies faced by local families with members serving in the military. These messages enable families, service members, and military authorities to make informed decisions regarding resolution of the emergency.
Catholic Social Services
Our Lady of Guadalupe Center
The Our Lady of Guadalupe Center serves the needs of the growing Hispanic community by providing emergency food assistance; health screenings; information on nutrition, housing, legal aide and finances; and guidance in acquiring basic needs.
CHOICES for Victims of Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence Shelter
CHOICES 24 hour domestic/intimate partner violence shelter provides an immediately accessible, safe, supportive environment for individuals and families forced to flee their home. The shelter is an integral component of the local system of services for anyone in Franklin County impacted by domestic/intimate partner violence.
Domestic Violence Hotline
CHOICES 24-hour crisis, information and referral hotline provides immediate access to the local system of services for anyone in Franklin County impacted by domestic/intimate partner violence. Staff answering the hotline receive extensive training on problem assessment, active listening, crisis intervention, documentation and available community resources.
Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resource Center
Family Services
The Family Services Program provides solutions to problems meeting basic needs such as food, healthcare, housing, clothing and financial issues. Family Services responds to individuals and families living in the service area and on a one time basis for those living outside of the area.
Community Shelter Board
Shelter Network
The Shelter Network supports the community result that people in crisis have access to emergency food, shelter and financial assistance by ensuring that single adults and families with children receive food, shelter and services to resolve a housing crisis and support future stabilization.
Direct Client Assistance
This program ensures that people in crisis have access to emergency food, shelter and financial assistance by serving individuals and families who experience homelessness. This program also provides intervention through emergency financial assistance for housing costs (security deposit, rent, & utilities) & costs related to securing housing (application fees, I.D. or drivers’ license fees, bus fare, etc.).
- FIRSTLINK
Information and Referral
The Information and Referral program helps individuals, families and communities identify, understand and effectively use the programs that comprise the human service delivery system. Specialists help people understand their problems and make informed decisions about possible solutions.
Gladden Community House
Community Services
Community Services provides emergency assistance and support to clients who are homeless or at immediate, documented risk of homelessness (eviction notice, utility shut-off notice, etc.) to help them maintain their current housing or acquire more adequate/ decent/ sustainable housing.
Gladden Food Pantry
The Gladden Food Pantry provides emergency food assistance to low-income clients in crisis due to food insecurity. The program provides three-day emergency food supplies to some 2,500 unduplicated households each year, providing approximately 275,000 individual meals.
Huckleberry House
Crisis Services
Huckleberry House's Crisis Services provide 24-hour crisis intervention; emergency shelter; outreach; individual, family and group counseling; aftercare; food; clothing; information, linkages and referral. This program is designed to meet the basic needs of teens and their families in crisis while strengthening family relationships, reuniting runaway and displaced youth with their families, and helping teens transition to safe and appropriate living arrangements.
Lutheran Social Services
Choice Food Pantries
Lutheran Social Services operates two pantries in Franklin County that distributed 2.5 million pounds of food to the hungry representing nearly 1 million nutritionally balanced meals.
Salvation Army
Bridging the Gap
The Bridging the Gap Food and Financial Assistance Program meets the immediate needs of individuals and families in Franklin County who are experiencing a financial crisis or a short term emergency. Through provision of food, rent, utility and/or material assistance, the program addresses the immediate needs of 12,000 households per year.
