About Us

God’s Shepherd Outreach Ministry is a faith-based transitional housing program created to provide services and solutions designed to address various foundational issues resulting in homelessness and create a trajectory of successful sustainability for an underserved population.  Through a continuum of care, this program initiative focuses on providing re-entry assistance (short-term housing, life-skills development, education/training, etc.) to ex-offenders and housing and resources to individuals/families recovering from the residual effects of addiction/alcoholism.

God’s Shepherd Outreach Ministry strives to create a foundation on which to build sustainability, to produce positive measurable outcomes and successfully reunify individuals/families back into mainstream society.

God’s Shepherd Outreach Ministry overall program goal is to provide transitional housing and program objectives that promote recovery “the restoration of those things lost…” and continued societal success.

Our Vision

Support our targeted population, achieve and sustain housing, financial independence and viability.

Our Mission

To promote healing and restoration for individuals, families and communities.

Background

While emergency shelters traditionally serve displaced people experiencing economic shock or personal trauma.  Transitional housing typically involves a temporary residence of up to 24 months with wrap-around services provided to increase the likelihood of success in developing and sustaining viability within the surrounding community.  Individual/family health shelter, life skills, stability and support are required in order for a targeted population to sustain meaningful lives.  Transitional housing offers safe and stable housing environments with voluntary and flexible support and services to help people manage serious chronic issues such as reentry after incarceration and substance abuse.  Research shows interventions to prevent homelessness are more cost effective than addressing issues after someone is already homeless.  The longer a person is homeless, the harder and more expensive it becomes to re-house this person.  Rapid re-housing helps people move from emergency/transitional shelter or on the street into stable housing as fast as possible.  It also connects people with supportive, community-based resources that help them maintain housing.  Other strategies showing evidence of effectiveness for preventing homelessness include:

  • Programs seeking to increase the supply of affordable housing in America
  • Benefits advocacy, which helps people find public and entitlement benefits such as Social Security Disability Insurance (SSD), veterans’ benefits, food stamps, childcare assistance, Medicaid, and low-income energy assistance
  • Discharge planning for people released from institutional care (e.g. substance abuse treatment centers, jail, prison).
  • Case management that focuses on determining clients’ needs for housing assistance, helping them find and get housing, and securing other resources needed to maintain housing stability (e.g. health insurance, childcare services, medical treatment, psychological services, food, clothing).