Cabrini Partnership

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?" My husband and I have five children, 12 grandchildren and an addiction. We had a plan to get away from drugs. But the problem is that drugs are everywhere. 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
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 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 125 individuals. These are individuals who were living in shelters or on the streets, some for as long as a decade.

Over the last 15 years, those working to end homelessness began to understand that if we were ever going to support those efforts effectively, we must first find these individuals a place to live. Knowing where you're going to sleep each night, where you can shower and eat each day is the first in regaining dignity and stability. The next step is furnishing an apartment to create a home. But then it's essential that support and resources are put in place to maintain mental health and encourage sobriety or reduced use.

To break the cycle of homelessness also requires access to education, from GED's to post secondary schooling. Regaining independent living skills, volunteering in the community and reunifying with family are also pieces of restoring lives. That's when stabilized housing can be achieved, hope restored and our own larger community strengthened.

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

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