Cabrini Give to the Max!

Mission: Cabrini Partnership provides housing and services to support homeless adults with mental illness and chemical dependency to strengthen their lives, families and community.

One Resident's Story: "Someone asked me, 'How did we become homeless?' Well, this is our story. My husband and I have five children, 12 grandchildren and an addiction. We moved to Minnesota in 2003 with the plan to get away from drugs. But the problem is that drugs are everywhere. When our family refused us a place to stay--which was the best thing for us--we ended up in different shelters. This made us take a hard, long look at our lives. The shelter housing director gave me the number for Cabrini Partnership. I never thought they would find us a place, but in about four weeks they had found us an apartment. As I think about our life and the help that Cabrini Partnership has given my family I realize that not only have they given us a home, helped us furnish it, but they have really given us our lives back. Thank you Cabrini Partnership for putting my family back together. We love you."

How Cabrini Partnership works: Set in a quiet residential neighborhood in Southeast Minneapolis, the Cabrini Partnership transitional house provides housing and supportive services for up to two years in a setting that facilitates increased self-sufficiency for individuals with chemical dependency and mental illness. Cabrini Partnership also provides permanent supportive housing for individuals who are persistently mentally ill and who need a safety net of support. These residents include individuals who previously had lived in the Cabrini Transitional Housing Program, as well as long-term homeless adults and families who come directly from “the street” or emergency shelters.

Programs: Cabrini Partnership has two programs. The Transitional Housing Program houses and stabilizes dually diagnosed adults in a community setting. The program can accommodate 23 adults at a time. Annually we serve 55 to 60 in this program. The Permanent Supportive Housing Program makes available affordable, one-bedroom apartments to people with a history of severe and persistent mental illness/chemical dependency and who are long term homeless. Currently, we are providing a home for 100 individuals. The majority are long-term homeless who previously were living on the streets or in shelters. Our two programs share three primary components: stable housing, a strengths-based model of case management and the availability of assistance when it's needed.

Learn more at http://www.cabrinipartnership.org/