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Current Programs 

and 

Future Goals

"35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."

Matthew 25: 35-36 NIV

Emergency Services

Safe Shelter 

Short term shelter in a room or hotel while we work to facilitate best nest steps .

Food Assistance 

Provide individuals and/or families in need with healthy food options.

Financial Assistance 

Provide financial assistance when funds are available for emergency needs.


Future Goal
>Ezer Emergency Shelter<

Stabilization

Ezer Transitional Housing

 Minimal cost Ezer managed housing designed to aid in getting one's feet planted firmly back underneath them after a crisis through ongoing need assessment, development and maintenance of healthy habits, including life skills training, budgeting, financial management and oversight and payee services, assisting with transportation when available, resume writing and interview skills training.

Food Assistance 

Aid individuals and/or families with groceries to supplement benefits and other items they may already have by way of our food pantry that operates every Saturday from 12pm-1pm.

Financial Assistance 

 Supplement qualified expense assistance when funds are available.

Heading Home

 Connect and advocate for people and families in need with programs, owners, property managers and other agencies for various transitional and permanent housing resources.

ENDLESS Employment Program

 (E)mpowering people with (N)eeded (D)iscipleship, and the (L)ove and leadership of Christ through (E)mployment and training to equip them with the needed (S)kill development for personal independence and a (S)ustainable future

The possibilities are ENDLESS!


Future Goal
>Foster Care Intervention<

Sustainability

 Ezer Permanent Supportive Housing

Partner with and place those in need of housing with limited income into Ezer managed housing, and ongoing need assessment, wrap around service facilitation, development and maintenance of healthy habits, ongoing life skills, budgeting, financial management and oversight as well as advocacy and relationship development

2nd Chance Housing Program

Partner with and place families with steady income into Ezer-managed housing with a one-year lease to aid in overcoming barriers to self-rental, and reestablish rental history. While also assessing ongoing needs, wrap around service facilitation, development and maintenance of healthy habits, ongoing life skills, budgeting, financial management and oversight as well as advocacy and relationship development

Annual Outreach Events

Each year we engage with our community on a larger scale with Back 2 School Child Sponsorships, Thanksgiving Dinner Family Sponsorships, Ezer's Angels Child/Family Sponsorships. Check our website and social media beginning August each year for announcements, dates to remember and ways you can get involved

Moving forward

Partner with and aid in 3rd party housing acquisition furnishings, and ongoing need assessment, development and maintenance of healthy habits, ongoing life skills training, budgeting, financial management and oversight, advocacy and relationship development.


Future Goals

>Ezer Immersion Experience<

>Ezer Leadership School<

>Ezer Permanent Supportive Affordable Housing Community<

Being the Good Samaritan

Executive Director, Kecia St. Clair sharing at Freedom Life Church how The Ezer Initiative was birthed and why we do what we do.

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