SUPPORTIVE SERVICES
Contact Ministries provides safety and support for women and women with children experiencing homelessness or a housing crisis. We offer an overnight emergency/crisis shelter and a 6-month long-term transitional shelter with required life skill classes, weekly case management with goal setting and mental health counseling. Residents can also receive referrals to outside agencies for services to help obtain further mental health / crisis management counseling, job training classes, finding permanent housing, medical assistance, and legal resources when needed.
Individual Services
Support services are important to everyone we serve at Contact Ministries. In order for our clients to begin realizing their true worth, we start by helping them feel encouraged, supported, safe and heard, so they will better open up and understand what they are healing from, and as a result feel more optimistic and hope filled for an improved future.
Contact Ministries provides safety and support for women and women with children experiencing homelessness or a housing crisis. We offer an overnight emergency/crisis shelter and a 6-month long-term transitional shelter with required life skill classes, weekly case management with goal setting and mental health counseling. Residents can also receive referrals to outside agencies for services to help obtain further mental health / crisis management counseling, job training classes, finding permanent housing, medical assistance, and legal resources when needed.
Individual Services
Support services are important to everyone we serve at Contact Ministries. In order for our clients to begin realizing their true worth, we start by helping them feel encouraged, supported, safe and heard, so they will better open up and understand what they are healing from, and as a result feel more optimistic and hope filled for an improved future.
Personal Development Classes
Contact Ministries provides residents with personal development classes designed to teach life skills that are needed to live a successful life. Residents are required to attend and participate in these classes, as part of our program, to help equip them for building a secure life for themselves and their children.
Examples of classes offered to our residents:
Budgeting
Parenting
Boundaries/Celebrate Recovery
Purpose Driven Life
“How to Get a Job and Keep a Job”
Nutrition
Job Skills in Basement Boutique
Job Preparation
Contact Ministries works with community agencies to increase job opportunities for our clients. We hold specialty classes to help our residents understand how to properly conduct themselves throughout the various stages of employment seeking. From resume writing to interviewing and dressing for the position being sought, we help them prepare for each step. Our ultimate goal is to get each resident employed somewhere that they love working so they have the best chance at success.
Employment & Educational Resources
Contact Ministries works to develop great relationships with other agencies to better provide a wide variety of social services for our resident.
The following are some of the businesses and organizations that will work with our residents to help them gain self-sufficiency:
Lawrence Education Center
Abundant Faith Christian Center’s Haven House
Catholic Charities
Capitol Community Health Care
Community Child Care Connection
Fishes & Loaves Vocational Center
Illinois Department of Human Services
Inner City Mission
Mental Health Centers of Illinois
MERCY Communities
Sojourn Shelter and Services, Inc.
Sangamon County Department of Community Resources
Springfield Urban League
Employment & Educational Resources
Contact Ministries works to develop great relationships with other agencies to better provide a wide variety of social services for our resident.
The following are some of the businesses and organizations that will work with our residents to help them gain self-sufficiency:
Lawrence Education Center
Abundant Faith Christian Center’s Haven House
Catholic Charities
Capitol Community Health Care
Community Child Care Connection
Fishes & Loaves Vocational Center
Illinois Department of Human Services
Inner City Mission
Mental Health Centers of Illinois
MERCY Communities
Sojourn Shelter and Services, Inc.
Sangamon County Department of Community Resources
Springfield Urban League