TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM :: Grace Point Shelter Through the years we have discovered a huge need for a place that serves homeless women with children. Grace Point Shelter will provide a place where single mothers who are struggling to find work, unable to pay for housing and are in need of guidance and direction can come and find grace and hope for their family. Grace Point Shelter will not simply be a quick fix or temporary shelter. We will be committed to these women long-term. Currently there is not a place in Northeast Georgia where women and children can go for long-term help. This program will meet an overwhelming need in our community and provide these families and children with hope for a better future. Grace Point Shelter will include Building site for transitional shelter In 2008, 13.2 percent of all persons lived in poverty. In 1993 the poverty rate was 15.1 percent. Between 1993 and 2000, the poverty rate fell each year, reaching 11.3 percent in 2000. This program will take the entire community working together.
What is a "Transitional Housing" program?
-Job training
-Life skills courses
-Counseling
- Spiritual development
-Goal setting
-Future planning
IS THERE A NEED IN THIS AREA?
Facts & Statistics
4,040,625,600 living in poverty
35% of the poor population is children.
Out of 50 states Georgia has the 8th highest percentage of children living in poverty. Every year 600,000 families, which include 1.35 million children experience some form of homelessness in the United States. Lack of affordable housing and housing assistance is the number one cause of homelessness among these families. The transitional housing program we hope to start will meet an overwhelming need in our community and provide these families and children with hope for a better future.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
-Contribute Funding
-Help construct the building
-Spend time with the families
-You are needed!
Together we can change lives forever.
Copyright 2009 Gracepoint/ A partnership of Get Real/ Fishers of Men Ministries
