This division of the Rescue Mission provides counseling, food, clothing, shelter, professional counseling and other emergency needs for homeless single women and women with children. Through a network with other agencies, assistance is provided to our residents to obtain more permanent housing and meeting their long-term needs. Services are offered 24 hours a day through our professional staff, interns and volunteers.
Residents also take part in family chores to maintain our services and physical living space.
Currently, crisis short-term housing is provided in the Bethel House, a facility with a safe, nurturing homelike atmosphere that is limited of only 16 residents. The average stay in 1995 was 20 days. Our vision for the future is to meet the growing need. Increasing numbers of women and children that far exceed our capability to help are seeking crisis housing and other help which includes rehabilitation required for successful independent living. To meet this critical need, a new facility has been identified, the Charis House, which should be in operation in late 1996.