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Provides a hot meal to homeless individuals.

Provides a one day event to assist families, individuals, and veterans who are facing poverty and homelessness. Offering access to social service providers, haircuts, medical screenings, professional portraits, meals, and personal hygiene kits. Providing guests with a new or very gently used pair of shoes or boots and new socks.

Provides a drop in center with coffee, water, restrooms, Wi-Fi, prepackaged food, hot meals, and clean clothing for individuals experiencing homelessness.

Provides assistance to homeless individuals or families with finding resources to help with their basic needs. Assists with referrals for benefits, mental health resources, housing applications, and furniture needs. Provides assistance with filling out applications for benefits and other programs.

Provides bicycles, bike classes, bike repair, and essential bicycling equipment such as helmets, locks, and lights for eligible individuals.

Offers annual exams, blood pressure screenings, breathing treatments, diabetes and asthma care, EKGs, immunizations, laboratory services, physicals, treatment for skin conditions and minor injuries, specialist referrals, vaccinations and well and sick child check-ups. Has a full service pharmacy on-site. Also operates a mobile health clinic that visits area community shelters.

Assists people who are homeless in Summit and Medina counties with applying for Social Security benefits.

Identifies and attempts to introduce individuals who are homeless and experiencing mental illness or substance use disorders into the social services/ behavioral healthcare service delivery system. Services include case management and referrals to other supportive services. The Homeless Outreach Center offers showers, laundry facilities, and a telephone for homeless individuals to use.

Registers homeless eligible people to vote. Provides opportunities to vote both in person (on election day and before election day) and by using the United States' mails.

Provides re-housing assistance (rent deposit payment assistance and initial rent payment assistance). - NOTE: Does not provide assistance with keeping the current residence - will only help to establish a new one. - NOTE: Does not help with mobile home lot fee payments, back rent, or any assistance to maintain the current residence.

Provides a structured mentoring program. Mentees are matched according to their skills and interests with women in the professional community who serve as mentors. Mentors and mentees meet once a week to discuss specific topics such as resume building, life skills, job guidance, self-esteem, interpersonal communication, and goal setting. Participants also attend workshops centered on these topics.

Provides a packed lunch and toiletries to homeless individuals.

Advocates for the educational needs of homeless youth in Lorain County. Works to ensure that homeless youth in Lorain County receives a free, appropriate, public education in the least restrictive environment to enable each child to reach his/her highest potential. Offers tutoring programs for homeless youth who need to improve their academic performance.

Registers eligible people to vote. Provides re-registration for those who have changed their name or addresses. Also supplies forms for those wanting to do voter registration at a community location.

Provides opportunity for people to vote in person in the precinct closest to their home. Counties that have touch screen voting must provide paper ballots if voters request them. If voters make a mistake on their ballots as they are voting, they may request up to 2 additional ballots (but can only submit one).

Provides a free bus ticket home to help reunite qualified runaway youth with their families or an alternative living program. Program is in partnership with Greyhound Lines, Inc.

Serves a weekly hot meal.

A Catholic religious non-profit that is fully volunteer staffed. Completely free Wellness Center plus Medical Clinic. Striving to care for the sick and the poor by providing treatment to anyone who is unable to afford medical services.

Provides access to services that improve the health status of homeless individuals, particularly those experiencing barriers, like social determinants of health to health care. The program works to improve access to primary care, mental health and substance use disorder services.

Rapid re-housing rapidly connects families and individuals who are by HUD definition literally homeless. This means living in a place not meant for human habitation (in a car, tent, abandoned building, under a bridge or living in a temporary emergency shelter). Short-term assistance that can be provided includes the following: rent and move-in assistance; case management to ensure housing stability; utility assistance (up to 6 months of assistance and up to 6 months of arrearages).

Provides opportunity to apply and to vote using the United States mails as an alternative to voting in person on election day.

Publishes a periodic newspaper containing articles, poems, and editorials regarding issues of homelessness. The newspaper helps to educate the public about homelessness, and also provides job opportunities for people to return to the workforce by buying the papers for a low price and reselling them to the public. The vendors receive training, including being informed of city ordinances regarding selling, are in some cases assigned shifts at major distribution points, and have the opportunity to publish experiences of being without housing.

Works to protect the rights of the homeless: monitors to assure that municipalities do not unfairly target the homeless or broadly enforce laws which would be harmful to the homeless; assists homeless persons who may have been the victims of hate crimes; coordinates information exchange regarding the rights of the homeless. The agency has experts on homeless voting available to assist with registration, get out the vote or in-person identification issues. Holds forums at shelters and drop-in centers to uncover problems, and responds with advocacy, letter-writing, and media attention to such problems.

Provides opportunity to vote in person before scheduled election days.

Provides financial assistance for individuals and families who are currently homeless including rental assistance, deposits for security and utilities, emergency supplies of food, clothing, furniture, appliances, and other housing start-up items.