Our Services
What We Do
Contact Ministries is a Christian organization. We value living out the two great commandments to love God and love our neighbor. (Matt. 22:37-39) Our goal is to see transformation in the lives of the people we serve. Our Mission is to daily serve the greater Springfield community by providing Emergency and Transitional Shelter with life skills training, as well as food, clothing, financial assistance and referrals through Christ’s love and compassion. Our vision is to meet the basic needs of all while impacting lives for Christ.
Shelters
Contact Ministries’ Emergency (crisis) shelter offers women and women with children of all ages (up to age 17), a safe and stable environment where their basic needs can be met. The shelter is open from 5:00pm-8:00am 365 days a year and gives each resident the dignity they deserve to begin working towards building a better life. The shelter has been a home to many women aging from 18 to 90. Case management and referred mental health counseling is available so an individual plan can be created.The 6 month long-term Transitional shelter offers women with children a safe and secure environment. This allows their lives to begin a transformation through required life skill classes (i.e. parenting, budgeting, nutrition, employment, etc.) weekly case management with goal setting, referred mental health counseling and other supportive services to provide the needed resources to get on a pathway to a successful future for themselves and their children.
Walk-In Services
Contact Ministries offers a variety of services. Our case managers are on site Monday-Thursday and take appointments between 9:00 am-3:00 pm to help with prescription medication assistance for seniors over 55 years of age, when funds are available, and help navigate other possible help available through other resources in Springfield, IL.
Basement boutique
Our faith-based, nonprofit organization accepts donated items which are then distributed through our “Basement Boutique” free of charge. We accept donated items Monday-Thursday between 9:00-1:00 except on holidays. You can make an appointment to shop in the Basement Boutique by calling our office at 217-753-3939 ext. 12 and making an appointment. Appointments for shopping will ONLY be made for Wednesdays between 9:30 am-11:00 am. Please DO NOT leave a list of items needed in a message, ONLY leave your name and phone number, and someone will return your call.
PLEASE NOTE: When accessing our Basement Boutique, you are only allowed to shop for clothing every 90-days and household or bedding items every 6 months.
The Basement Boutique provides our shelter residents with job training skills and experience that will be used far beyond their stay with us at Contact Ministries. The boutique is arranged as any little boutique where the inventory needs sorted, the shelves need stocked and the shoppers need to go through the checkout counter. Our residents get to experience every step of this process by working side by side with our staff and volunteers to sharpen their skills, build self confidence and pride in their work along the way.
Basement Boutique location:
1100 E. Adams St.
Springfield, Illinois 6270
Supportive Services
At Contact Ministries once you have been a resident and successfully completed one of our programs, you become a part of our forever family.
Once you are part of our forever family, you will receive priority services from Contact Ministries for at least a year past your date of exit which includes our Thanksgiving giveaway and the Christmas Adopt-A-Family program
Above all else, we keep in touch with each graduate of our program. We are there for them and we support them until they are safe and stable in their new lives.
Address
1100 East Adams
Springfield, IL 62703
Phone: 217-753-3939
Fax: 217-753-8643
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