Single adults

	Women’s Housing Partnership staff member Breanne McNeil describes Yvonne as: “A very strong, kind-hearted, loving, and smart woman.” Yvonne is a former shelter guest and one of the first participants in the Women’s Housing Partnership. She has been housed for a year and a half in the same apartment. Even while she was experiencing homelessness and staying at the women’s shelter, she held down her job in food service at the metrodome. Yvonne is attending Minneapolis Community and Technical College where she will soon graduate. She has reconnected and has grown closer to her three children and her grandchildren, who she now happily sees on a regular, ongoing basis. Housing Specialist Breanne adds: “This woman has endured many hard times and has taken the good out of these hardships and created a better life for herself.”
	Shelter advocate Robert Hoffman and former shelter guest Sam K. Sam had stayed at the Simpson Men’s Shelter for a night here and there over the last few years, but won a 28-day bed in February of 2009. “When you don’t have to worry about where you’re going to sleep, eat, and shower each night, it allows you to focus on some other things. Knowing where you’re going to sleep each night gives you some peace of mind. It makes you feel like you belong somewhere,” he said. Robert worked with Sam to help him determine his barriers to maintaining housing. Sam is currently working and is in housing.

Single Adult Rental Assistance (SARA)
he Single Adult Rental Assistance (SARA) program began in 2005 and has served over 30 men and women who have experienced an average length of 14 years of homelessness prior to the program.T

Overall in 2009

• 70% of participants in the program have maintained housing without returning to shelter or homelessness.

Women’s Housing Partnership
he Women’s Housing Partnership is the single adult housing program that places the most frequent guests from our women’s shelter into housing with ongoing support services.

Overall in 2009

• 30 single adult women were served.
• Average length of homelessness was 8 years prior to the program
• 86% of participants in the program have maintained housing without returning to shelter or homelessness.

Through our five Collaboration of Housing Resources (COHR) teams, a total of 110 long-term homeless women are currently enrolled in adult housing programs.

Emergency Shelters

Guests at our men’s and our women’s shelters receive a bed, three meals, a shower, laundry, access to health care, and advocacy as they search to find a permanent home.

Every night of the year, 40 guests stay at our men’s shelter and 20 guests stay at our women’s shelter.

Overall in 2009

Simpson Men’s Shelter

• 1,099 came to the Monday night bed lottery for overnight shelter and 591 men received a bed.
• 849 individuals accessed services other than shelter (mail, dinner, a nurse visit).
• 92 men moved directly from the shelter into permanent or transitional housing.

Simpson Women’s Shelter

• 257 women received a bed.
• 647 needed to be turned away due to lack of space.

2009 Simpson Singles Rapid Exit program

The Simpson Rapid Exit program is dedicated to swiftly moving guests from the men’s shelter into housing. Clients tend to have been homeless for a shorter amount of time and have fewer barriers to housing.

• 75 clients were housed in 2009.
  
• Clients in the program had an average monthly income of $1,065.

Snapshot Programs 2009 report  pdf document

Annual Report

Family Housing

Single Adult Housing

Shelters

Volunteers

Financials

Board of Directors

Missions and Values

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