Provides financial assistance for individuals and families who are currently homeless including rental assistance, deposits for security and utilities, emergency supplies of food, clothing, furniture, appliances, and other housing start-up items.

Provides a one day event to assist families, individuals, and veterans who are facing poverty and homelessness. Offering access to social service providers, haircuts, medical screenings, professional portraits, meals, and personal hygiene kits. Providing guests with a new or very gently used pair of shoes or boots and new socks.

Assists people who are homeless in Summit and Medina counties with applying for Social Security benefits.

Helps individuals and families transition from living in emergency shelter by paying for rental deposits and rent. Goal is to help the client come out of homelessness. Does not assist with maintaining housing. Clients of this program will receive case management to connect to other community services. A Housing Locator will help the client locate housing that will accept the voucher and to match them to housing that fits their specific needs. If approved for service, client will have 21-30 days to find an apartment.

Works to protect the rights of the homeless: monitors to assure that municipalities do not unfairly target the homeless or broadly enforce laws which would be harmful to the homeless; assists homeless persons who may have been the victims of hate crimes; coordinates information exchange regarding the rights of the homeless. The agency has experts on homeless voting available to assist with registration, get out the vote or in-person identification issues. Holds forums at shelters and drop-in centers to uncover problems, and responds with advocacy, letter-writing, and media attention to such problems.

Rapid re-housing rapidly connects families and individuals who are by HUD definition literally homeless. This means living in a place not meant for human habitation (in a car, tent, abandoned building, under a bridge or living in a temporary emergency shelter). Short-term assistance that can be provided includes the following: rent and move-in assistance; case management to ensure housing stability; utility assistance (up to 6 months of assistance and up to 6 months of arrearages).

Provides bicycles, bike classes, bike repair, and essential bicycling equipment such as helmets, locks, and lights for eligible individuals.

Serves unhoused individuals and focuses on eliminating barriers that may have gotten in the way of finding and/or maintaining housing in the past.

Helps individuals and families transition from living in emergency shelter by paying for rental deposits and rent. Goal is to help the client come out of homelessness. Does not assist with maintaining housing. Clients of this program will receive case management to connect to other community services. A Housing Locator will help the client locate housing that will accept the voucher and to match them to housing that fits their specific needs. If approved for service, client will have 21-30 days to find an apartment (a Housing Locator at EDEN will assist the client with this search, it is best to start engaging with the Housing Locator as soon as possible).

Provides a free bus ticket home to help reunite qualified runaway youth with their families or an alternative living program. Program is in partnership with Greyhound Lines, Inc.

Provides access to services that improve the health status of homeless individuals, particularly those experiencing barriers, like social determinants of health to health care. The program works to improve access to primary care, mental health and substance use disorder services.

Provides opportunity to vote in person before scheduled election days.

Registers eligible people to vote. Provides re-registration for those who have changed their name or addresses. Also supplies forms for those wanting to do voter registration at a community location.

Provides case management and medication monitoring for severely mentally disabled persons who are homeless. Clients receive psychiatric and nursing services to assess mental and physical problems, help applying for benefits, assistance in securing temporary and permanent housing, and emergency loans for medication and food.

Provides opportunity to apply and to vote using the United States mails as an alternative to voting in person on election day.

Serves a weekly hot meal.

Provides assistance to homeless individuals or families with finding resources to help with their basic needs. Assists with referrals for benefits, mental health resources, housing applications, and furniture needs. Provides assistance with filling out applications for benefits and other programs.

A Catholic religious non-profit that is fully volunteer staffed. Completely free Wellness Center plus Medical Clinic. Striving to care for the sick and the poor by providing treatment to anyone who is unable to afford medical services.

Provides up to 90 calendar days of payment of child care subsidy for homeless children. Parents choose care in licensed child care center or child care home.

Offers annual exams, blood pressure screenings, breathing treatments, diabetes and asthma care, EKGs, immunizations, laboratory services, physicals, treatment for skin conditions and minor injuries, specialist referrals, vaccinations and well and sick child check-ups. Has a full service pharmacy on-site. Also operates a mobile health clinic that visits area community shelters.

Provides opportunity for people to vote in person in the precinct closest to their home. Counties that have touch screen voting must provide paper ballots if voters request them. If voters make a mistake on their ballots as they are voting, they may request up to 2 additional ballots (but can only submit one).

Publishes a periodic newspaper containing articles, poems, and editorials regarding issues of homelessness. The newspaper helps to educate the public about homelessness, and also provides job opportunities for people to return to the workforce by buying the papers for a low price and reselling them to the public. The vendors receive training, including being informed of city ordinances regarding selling, are in some cases assigned shifts at major distribution points, and have the opportunity to publish experiences of being without housing.

Provides re-housing assistance (rent deposit payment assistance and initial rent payment assistance). - NOTE: Does not provide assistance with keeping the current residence - will only help to establish a new one. - NOTE: Does not help with mobile home lot fee payments, back rent, or any assistance to maintain the current residence.

Provides a packed lunch and toiletries to homeless individuals.

Provides housing for eligible residents of the County. Owns and manages a large number of family estates, senior and adult high-rise developments, and scattered site locations throughout the County. There may be a special enrollment process for this program when there is a long waiting list. Residents have access to the Resident Services Department that can connect them to resources such as youth programs, mobile food pantries, events and personal enrichment activies as well as fitness activities. Accepts requests and handles issues relating to accessibility in public housing properties that this agency maintains and operates.