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Homeless and Self-sufficiency Transitional Living Facilities
Visitation Maternity House is a program of Catholic Charities of Central Florida in partnership with St. Peter Catholic Church in Deland, Volusia County, Florida. The services are designed to address the needs of unmarried pregnant women who are either currently or in danger of becoming homeless. The Church provides the facilities and Catholic Charities provides the program. The facility utilizes the former convent on Church property and another home adjacent to the old convent. The old convent has one dorm style room accommodating 4 people: 3 private bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, an office and quarters for the housemother. The adjacent house has room for 3 women and 6 children with a house mother suite. Case Management is an integral part of the program. Case management services include educational, academic, healthy life skills, parenting and relationship training. There is also vocational training to empower each resident to become self-sufficient. While the platform is housing, we recognize that our service delivery to the women and their children must be tailored and as unique as our clients. Community Benefits:
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Visitation Maternity House and the services that the program provides are very much in need in Volusia County. Outcome measurements utilizing the logic model are being developed. Such measurements will establish benchmarks of productivity and goal attainment vital for community support and fund raising. More importantly, a strong program utilizing the partnership of Catholic Charities and the faith-based community will provide the springboard to lift mothers and their children out of the cycle of poverty toward productivity, security and independence. Visitation Maternity House Brochure (PDF)
Shepherd’s House is a transitional housing facility for homeless single women and their Children (under the age of 8 years old) in East Orlando/Orange County, Florida. This duplex transitional housing program serves up to 32 women and 48 children (capacity is 16 single mothers and their children for 6 months).
Mission StatementProvide vital social services to people in need, regardless of their religious, social or economic background, to improve lives of individuals, families and the community. 430 Plumosa Avenue Pathways to Care (PTC) is a 40-bed, not-for-profit respite center dedicated to providing health, housing and hope to Central Florida’s most vulnerable homeless, providing short-term recuperative care and support services for homeless adults in need of temporary housing in order to recover from an acute medical illness or injury. PTC opened July 1, 2003 as a licensed assisted living facility with an overall goal to support their residents to achieve greater health, self-sufficiency and housing stability. Clients are urged to develop and complete a social recovery plan devised to solve the root causes of their illness, homelessness, and joblessness. As such, PTC goals are far-reaching on an individual as well as a community level. PTC has specific goals for the coming year: Serve at least 230 poor, medically under-served adults Provide social services to 100 % of individuals referred to PTC Complete medical recovery for 67 % of the individuals referred to PTC These goals are accomplished through PTC’s caring and talented nursing, case management, and resident life staff as well as through a large network of volunteers. The staff is knowledgeable about the resources available in the region and connects PTC clients accordingly. Staff and volunteers work one-on-one with clients to teach them life skills and self-care, educate them about their illness or injury and provide spiritual and social support on an ongoing basis. On average, PTC has a 68% success rate of relocating individuals with family or other independent living options through PTC’s links to numerous social service and housing providers and its strong community support network. Pathways to Care became a program of CCCF in January 2007. Collaborating with various community partners, including local Catholic and Protestant churches, regional homeless agencies and hospitals that serve Orlando, Seminole and Volusia Counties, PTC is able to fulfill their mission to care for a particularly vulnerable part of the homeless population, serving the greater community at large. Click HERE for the Pathways To Care web siteRun For PTC HEREPTC Newsletters Archive: (PDF) |







