Florida Women`s Shelters, Transitional Housing: (WomenShelters.org)
WomenShelters.org is all about providing easy to find shelter listings for women in need. We want to make it simple and easy to use for women who need help quick. We provide listings of emergency shelters, transitional housing, family shelters, residential treatment centers, and other residential services for women.
Changing Homelessness: Changing Homelessness (Changinghomelessness.org)
How we work? We are the lead agency of the FL-510 CoC, a collaborative of over 40 agencies working together across Northeast Florida in Clay, Duval, and Nassau Counties. We are tasked by HUD to deliver a comprehensive response to homelessness, which includes coordinating funding and the delivery of housing services for people experiencing homelessness. We also manage the CoC’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), provide support and training for member agencies administering direct services, and build community awareness around the steps our CoC is taking to end homelessness. Most importantly, we are a leader and an advocate. We believe our community is better off when we ALL have a place to call home, and know we can only achieve this vision of a healthy and housed Jacksonville when we come together as one. Together, we are Changing Homelessness.
Our mission is to transform the lives of homeless men, women and children by providing crucial services to end their crisis of homelessness.
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida was formed in 1987 by a group of concerned citizens who noted a growing problem of homelessness in our community.
We are a low barrier residential shelter with a focus on housing, emergency services, and diversion. We help families and individuals return to stable, permanent homes as quickly as possible.
Each day we serve more than 500 men, women and children through our residential programs, as well as more than 100 unsheltered individuals through our community initiatives.
Through the support of our community, the Coalition has been able to evolve and adapt to the changing needs – and the changing faces – of the homeless for over three decades.
Access:
Food, Medical Assistance and Cash
Abuse Hotline:
1-800-962-2873
Florida Relay 711 or TTY: 1-800-955-8771
Lotus House: About Lotus House (lotushouse.org)
Founded in 2004, Sundari Foundation, Inc. is a non-denominational, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of women, youth and children experiencing homelessness by ensuring that they have the sanctuary, support, education and resources needed to heal, grow, and blossom into who they were truly meant to be. The first initiative of the Foundation was the establishment of the Lotus House Women’s Shelter in 2006 in the heart of Overtown, Miami serving homeless women.
Utilizing an innovative, trauma-informed, holistic format, Lotus House provides shelter and multi-faceted, comprehensive supportive services, including access to medical and mental health care, parenting education, counseling and parent/child therapy, life skills and educational advancement, job readiness training, and a host of enrichment activities from art and acupuncture to yoga and meditation offering alternative pathways to healing.
Help Now of Osceola provides safety, empowerment and healing for survivors of domestic violence and influence social change in the community.
The agency provides a temporary safe shelter for survivors of domestic abuse who are in danger and experience fear of abuse. Help Now is committed to supporting individuals as they establish violence-free living.
Help Now Domestic Abuse Advocates provide advocacy for any victim survivor of domestic violence and their children in our community. We operate an emergency safe shelter, an outreach advocacy center and a 24 hour crisis line that allow victim survivors to access our services for safety and support.
If you are living in a domestic abuse situation, and are in fear for your safety, please call our hotline at 407-847-8562 to speak with an advocate about available options and resources.
ShelterHouse: (shelterhousenwfl.org)
Mission Statement: Supporting victims of domestic and sexual violence by providing shelter, intervention and primary prevention programs to the community through education, awareness and advocating for social change.
Vision: All relationships violence free.
Founded in 1985, Shelter House is a non-profit center serving domestic and sexual violence victims and survivors in Okaloosa and Walton counties. The supportive, non-judgmental environment at Shelter House works to make every survivor feel safe, empowered and confident. Shelter House advocates use an empowerment-based model when working with survivors. We listen, present options and share resources. Our advocates do not tell victims what to do. Violence cross all age, racial, ethnic, nation-orientation, sexual, gender preference, spiritual and socioeconomic boundaries, and Shelter House is here to serve all who seek help.
All services provided by Shelter House are free and confidential for victims and include a 24-hour domestic violence hotline, 24-hour sexual assault helpline, confidential shelter, crisis counseling, advocacy, outreach, hospital accompaniment, play therapy for children, safety planning, transitional housing, support groups, on-site pet kennel, economic empowerment classes and supportive services for family members of sexual violence victims.
Family Promise of Greater Orlando gives parents the hope and encouragement they neeed to create a better future for their children and end the cycle of homelessness for families in Central Florida.
We are a proud affiliate of Family Promise National Family Promise of Greater Orlando has three primary focuses of support. Emergency Response includes our rotational shelter program, prevention & diversion efforts. Housing includes our Rapid Rehousing program, which utilizes a Housing-First approach to put families in homes and then focus on building better lifestyle habits. Our Stabilization program focuses on the long-term goals and outcomes for our families, so they can continue to stay stabilized long after their time with Family Promise.
HANDS was founded to assist Central Florida communities to increase the supply and availability of affordable housing, both rental and ownership. HANDS achieves this mission by providing many services.In accomplishing this mission, HANDS works to establish partnerships with other non-profits organizations, governments and the business community to build, acquire, and rehabilitate and manage low cost housing units which are sold or rented to individuals and families well below market rate.
Find how to get help with paying bills or free basic needs. Find how to get financial assistance with bills, free items, housing, food, and emergency or long term help for basic needs. There are local agencies near you, listed below by state or program type, as well as national organizations, including charities or government social services. Everything from rent or utility bill assistance to food pantries, mortgage payment help, free health or dental clinics and much more is listed.
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The Ocala Domestic Violence Center is Ocala’s only certified domestic violence shelter, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to helping domestic violence survivors and their children. All services are FREE of charge. Our professional and volunteer staff conducts a complete counseling, assistance, safe housing and referral program. Crisis Intervention Specialists are always available through our 24 Hour Hotline. Our agency provides various forms of community education and prevention, as well as group counseling and assistance through our Outreach program. We have an Attorney on staff to assist in filing for injunctions for protection and representation in court for the injunction process. We have Court Advocates who help victims file restraining orders and with filling out divorce paperwork, who accompany survivors in court for custody and child support issues, and who also provide relocation assistance
OUR MISSION: To stop domestic violence abuse for everyone through intervention, education and advocacy.
OUR HISTORY: Women In Distress of Broward County, Inc. was founded by Edee Greene and a group of concerned citizens in July of 1974. Initially, Women In Distress served as Broward County’s first refuge for homeless women in a modest four-bedroom home until a local tragedy brought light to the need for shelter for women and children in danger. Shortly thereafter, the agency’s founders were able to purchase a 54-bed shelter with generous contributions from Dr. Kona and Ruth Simon, and Walter and Peg Griffith, later expanding to 62 beds with a gift of a second 8-bed shelter from Lorraine Thomas. Women In Distress was now able to offer crisis shelter and support to victims of domestic violence and their children. In November 1995, the doors of the Jim & Jan Moran Family Center opened in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Family Center instantly increased our visibility, accessibility and capacity to serve more families. In 1999, Janet A. Boyle established a $1 million endowment for Women In Distress in an effort to help ensure the future operations of the organization. Mrs. Boyle’s generosity has established a legacy benefiting Women In Distress of Broward County, Inc., its participants and employees for future generations. Today, Women In Distress has expanded again in order to meet the increased needs for emergency shelter and services. In the Summer of 2011, the new Women In Distress Jim & Jan Moran Family Center opened its doors to the community. The new center allowed for the agency to double its emergency shelter and outreach services as well as offer new enhancements including a special population wing for families with special needs and a Broward Sheriff’s Substation.
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