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Leading the Effort to End Homelessness in the Capital Region of Connecticut

At Journey Home, we believe that everyone deserves to feel the comfort and safety of home.

Homelessness is a complicated and expensive social problem.

Without coordinating all available programs and services:.

• Responses are siloed
• Efforts get duplicated
• Dollars are wasted

Journey Home coordinates the Capital Region’s system for ending homelessness. We guide the efforts between service providers, government agencies, businesses, and local communities to achieve enduring, systemic change.

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How Journey Home is Making a Difference

Our mission is to ensure a home for all.

We’ve spent more than a decade committed to ending homelessness in Connecticut’s Capital region by applying sustainable solutions to the barriers that create cycles of homelessness.

Every day, we work to:

• Prevent as many people as possible from losing their housing
• Increase the speed at which we find housing for anyone who is already experiencing homelessness
• Help folks move into their homes and provide the furnishings and services they need to never become homeless again

Richard Buckminster Fuller says, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

For Connecticut, that new model is the Coordinated Access Network, a way for people who are experiencing homelessness to access housing and support services in a standardized and organized way. It involves having clear protocols, assessment tools, and agreed-upon priorities within the community that serves homeless individuals.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

–Richard Buckminster Fuller

The Results (So Far)

Decrease in the number of people experiencing chronic homelessness since 2015, journey home mission: our mission is to ensure a home for all..

We believe the most powerful way to do this is collectively - by working together with service providers, elected officials, businesses and local communities to end homelessness in the Capital region of Connecticut. We will build partnerships, advance innovative solutions and achieve enduring, systemic change.

Journey Home

PO Box 260727 Hartford, CT 06126

860-808-0336

[email protected]

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Welcome to the journey home, veteran outreach organization.

Our history has pushed TJH to become better and to evolve so that the mission to “end Veteran homelessness” captures our ability to be proactive and to be socially responsible to factors impacting Veteran homelessness. The foundation of our mission strategy is Veteran Outreach. These strategies honor the Veterans’ service and sends the message that their nation cares!

Empathy and Compassion: The impact of The Journey Home’s VOT program is observed in our ability to 1) make decisions without guessing; 2) to respond to what can be predicted versus what is to be assumed, and 3) to employ empathy and compassion when supporting homeless or at-risk Veterans, or community partners who struggle to know how to help.

Community Partnership: TJH programmatically relies on community partners to find and to support Veterans in crisis. The stability of a Veteran is dependent up their relationship with their community; with their neighbors, and with where they shop, eat out, go to church and attend appointments.

Veteran Support: The VOT facilitates strategies and interventions that empower Veterans to be active and to directly access theircare. Trained and credentialed staff work with each Veteran to establish an individualized Options and Resource (O&R) plan. A Veteran’s O&R is meant to the Veteran’s capacity to respond with their community’s capacity to give support.

Veteran Transportation: A Veteran’s physical activity and access to care is connected directly to and associated with factors of isolation. Whether it be with an independent provider or a VA Medical Center, the VOT’s transportation team either assists in transporting Veterans, or our VOT staff and volunteers follow up and stay connected as we link them to community transportation resources.

Mission Strategy Through the Eyes of a Veteran:

"I am a Vietnam Veteran. I was introduced to TJH shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. I am housed and have been independent of others care my entire life. The diagnosis of cancer has been tough and very scary. Feeling hopeless and angry, I went to my local Veteran Service Office (VSO) for help. I was fighting the impulse to shut down and withdraw all together. The VSO called TJH. I did not know where to start, or understand what was happening to me, or how to navigate the many appointments that are now critical. TJH understands, and they have connections that help me. I am not alone, and that feels really good."

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2023 Year End / 2024 Winter Campaign $95,000

The Journey Home

VETERANS HOMELESS NATIONALLY IN 2019.

VETERANS HOMELESS FOR OVER 12 MONTHS.

AMERICAN VETERANS COMMIT SUICIDE EVERY DAY.

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DONATE SUPPLIES VIA AMAZON Our program transitions homeless Veterans off the streets or out from under bridges into permanent housing, treatment, and appropriate employment.  We develop the social, emotional and employment skills that sustain independence, and connect them to the VA, to their County Veteran Services Officer (VSO) and to local resources for eligible benefits.

The Journey Home loves our Veterans, so we lower the barriers that would otherwise prevent a homeless Veteran into placement and provide the specialized programing to support them.  We personalize our programs and services to support Veterans through their recovery.  Patience, with accountability, provide the Veteran stable support as they stay engaged in our programing.  Mistakes are used as a stepping stone in the development of not only new skills but of confidence and hope.

In 2020, TJH accomplishments include:

Veterans helped off the streets .

Veterans helped to find their own home .

Veterans placed in treatment programs .

Veterans enrolled in outreach services .

Veterans assisted into employment .

Veterans case managed into VA Benefits .

Veterans case managed into non-VA Benefits .

Veterans receiving VA/SOC. Security Disability .

% of Veterans positively discharged from TJH .

Veterans helped with disaster assistance .

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Toby Owen 817-632-7440 [email protected]

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Carrie Taylor 817-632-7405 [email protected]

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Marisa Gomez 817-632-7412 [email protected]

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Betty McIlroy  817-632-7400 ext. 7620 [email protected]

Melinda Orth  817-632-7422 [email protected]

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Inside One of Hartford’s Largest Homeless Organizations, Journey Home

Caleb Salomons (Interviewer): Journey Home recently moved to Saint James Episcopal Church in West Hartford. As one Michael Walsh quotes in CTInsider: “By moving its main office in town the non-profit Journey Home hopes to deepen its connection to the community that has been supporting its mission to end homelessness for over 15 years.” What is your position at Journey Home?

Sara Salomons (Interviewee): So I am the Director of Development and Operations, and it’s a big position. So I oversee all of the funding that comes in through the agency. We have a pretty large budget and we have very diversified funding. I also manage all of the internal operations of the agency. So that’s anything from making sure that our employees have good health care coverage to the liability insurance for the agency, all of the lease negotiations that we have, and all of the human resources issues, budget. So operations encompasses a lot, development also encompasses a lot. And then I also oversee the communications department for the agency. So that is the website, all the social media, and all of the external communication. So if like a journalist calls us and they’re looking for a quote on something or if I need to do a radio, TV interview, or a newspaper interview, that would fall on me.

Caleb: Okay, how long have you worked at Journey Home?

Sara: So I’ve been at Journey Home for nine years. I actually, this is a second career for me. So I started my career as an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and I served a number of different congregations in three different states, Michigan, Illinois, and Connecticut. And about 10 years ago, I started to feel a shift within me and I really wanted to work in the nonprofit sector. So I had studied in seminary in Chicago and I’d spent the vast majority of my career working in urban churches. And so I really began to understand urban poverty and all of the nuances around that. And so I made the decision that I really felt like I could be more effective working for a nonprofit that worked directly with anti-poverty issues.

Caleb : In your own words, what is the mission of Journey Home? What are you trying to achieve?

Sara: So Journey Home exists to create support for other agencies in our region that are doing homelessness and housing work. So oftentimes what I say is that we’re the backbone agency. So we support the people that are doing the work on the ground. We don’t have very many direct service programs at Journey Home. But what we do have is we’ve created support so the agencies that are doing direct service can have the resources, the training, the finances, everything that they need in order to do their work. And part of our work is we’ve created one entry point into the homelessness system and then we’ve also created one exit point out of homelessness and into housing. It was very scattered before we came and coordinated all of the services.

Caleb: Why does your organization exist?

Sara: Our organization exists because we felt as though there should be a better way for people to access housing. What our founders saw was that the housing programs and homelessness, it was scattered services and so we decided that we wanted to come together and to bring all of the players at the same table and break down all of the silos that existed within the homeless system and create order and coordination and collaboration rather than chaos and sort of a siloed system where people got lost. So I always say that our whole purpose for being is making sure that the people who need the services that are offered in the homeless service sector are able to receive the services and not slip through the cracks. So we in a lot of ways are the gap filler. So we really exist to fill all of the gaps within the homeless service sector.

Caleb: So is there any event that you would say started Journey Home or is it just a demand that you were talking about before?

Sara: Well, there was an event. So in 2004, there were a lot of cities across the country that were working on what they called the 10-year plan to end homelessness. So it was a national effort and Hartford happened to be one of the cities that signed on to create their own 10-year plan to end homelessness. So at the time, Mayor Eddie Perez, so he was the mayor of Hartford in 2004, he called together a commission to write a 10-year plan to end homelessness. So they wrote this plan, there were probably 80 or 90 people on the commission. They wrote the plan and then instead of like having this big plan and putting it in a binder and putting it on a shelf, they decided let’s implement the plan. So in 2007, they started the work of implementation of the plan and that was ultimately the nonprofit Journey Home and it was funded. Our first funders were the city of Hartford and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. So with that seed money, we were able to actually become an agency that had a staff. We had one staff member back in 2007.

Caleb: How large is your staff?

Sara: Oh, yeah. So that’s a great segue, Caleb. So currently, which is amazing, so like I said, we went from one staff, I was the third staff member there nine years ago and we now have 19 staff members and an intern.

Caleb: What programs are your staff responsible for?

Sara: We have a variety of programs at Journey Home. A lot of people know about us because of our furniture distribution program. So we do have that. It’s called a hand up and where we collect donated furniture and we distribute it to people who are moving from homelessness to housing. But beyond that, we have an array of programs. We coordinate all of the services for youth homelessness in our region and our region is comprised of 35 municipalities. We also coordinate employment initiatives. So for folks who are experiencing homelessness moving into housing, we coordinate services around employment initiatives. We also coordinate all of the housing resources for folks who have become homeless because they are in a domestic violence situation. So we hold the contract for that. We coordinate a lot of the rapid rehousing programs in our region. We service the entire homeless outreach community. So we coordinate all of the outreach workers that work in our region and making sure that we can capture as many people as possible. We coordinate all of the cold weather planning for our region. We coordinate the homeless point in time count, which is an annual point in time count that happens every January where we have to actually physically count the folks who are in shelters and sleeping outside. We do that with a lot of volunteers. We also coordinate the landlord risk reduction fund. So we have somebody who’s a full time member of our staff and her only job is to ensure that landlords will rent to the population that we serve. So we do a lot at Journey Home and there’s probably some things that I’m forgetting.

Caleb: What are the people that are served by your organization?

Sara: So the people that are served by our organization are really those who are experiencing homelessness. We’re just starting to get funding and we’re dipping into our toe into the world of homeless prevention as well. So we have some funding directed towards homeless prevention. So those are people that are not yet homeless but are on the verge of homelessness. But for years, we’ve only really been focused on people who were actually literally homeless. So I’d say right now in the history of our organization, the two populations we serve are those who are experiencing homelessness and those who are on the verge of homelessness. We also spend a little time with people who’ve just been housed to furnish their apartments but we don’t do any work beyond that. They are connected with other services.

Caleb: What have you personally achieved for your organization?

Sara: I think my biggest, I mean, I’ve done a lot. I’ve raised millions of dollars there over my time. So we have a four and a half million dollar budget right now. It was about six million during COVID but when I started it was something like 600,000. So it’s really ebbed and flowed over the years. So yes, I am responsible for ensuring that we have the proper funding. And I also am responsible for making sure everything works as it needs to work behind the scenes. But I think my biggest accomplishment there and the thing I’m most proud of is starting the Hand Up program. So I don’t know if you remember, Caleb, but back in the spring of 2016, I think it will be, no, 2016, no, 2015, Caleb. So back in the spring of 2015, you probably remember lots of people coming to our house and dropping off furniture in our shed and in our garage. And that was the start of our furniture program. So it began in our house, this big program that now has a journey home, like Hall has a journey home club, but that started at our house. And so I feel like that’s my biggest accomplishment since I’ve been there. And so we went from our garage and our shed to now we have two warehouses and two trucks and I have three staff members who operate the program. Back in the day, it was me and my friends with big cars and our garage was the storage center for Journey Home.

Caleb: Wow. Why do you do what you do?

Sara: I do what I do because I have always had this desire within me that I can’t explain. Like I can’t point to a certain, this point in time is when I decided I wanted to do something. I feel like my whole constitution, everything about who I am is I’ve always wanted to be of service to other people. It just for whatever reason makes me feel better. I feel whole and I feel complete. And I thought I could achieve that when I was working in the church, but then I quickly discovered like, not quickly because it took me a long time to discover it, but I did discover that I felt as though I could be of more service and use in another area. And I do what I do because I really feel like this is what I was called to do in a lot of ways, just to help other people. And I think I believe to my core that housing is a human right. So I believe everybody should be housed. And so I want to work to get to that point.

Caleb: Going back to the organization as a whole, what as an organization have you done that you want to highlight?

Sara: What has our organization done that I want to highlight? We have, so from 2014, and this is just, it’s a simple thing, but from 2014 until now when we first started tracking this progress, and 2014 is when I went to work for Journey Home, and that’s when we started tracking, we have reduced chronic homelessness by 90%. So since 2014, so in those nine years. And what that means, so if somebody is chronically homeless, it means that they’ve been homeless a year or longer, and they have some sort of disability. So these back in the day were the hardest people to serve because their problems were so complicated. And what we decided to do was to focus on this very difficult population and get them into housing first. And we did. So we reduced it by 90%.

Caleb: What article under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights would you say your organization is most focused on?

Sara: I’d say that we’re most focused on Article 25, and because that talks about how everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of that person and their family if they have family. And that includes food and clothing, and where we’re focused is housing and medical care and necessary social services. So I believe that that would be the one that would fit the best with us.

Caleb: What would happen if your organization did not exist?

Sara: We’re pretty certain that if our organization did not exist, the system that we’ve created and built would really not be sustainable because they need us to coordinate the variety of services. But the end result of a system that collapses is the people who are experiencing homelessness have a harder time accessing the services. So my best guess is if we didn’t exist, our area would see a drastic increase in homelessness, and there’d be a significant housing crisis.

Caleb: How are you guys funded?

Sara: We have a variety of funding. So we have federal funding. We have state funding. We are funded by municipalities. We have corporate sponsors. We are funded by small foundations, small businesses, foundations, and then individual donors, which is really our most sustainable form of giving. So we’re very focused on the individual donor base and making sure that they know how much we need them, although it’s not a huge percentage of our budget any longer because our budget has grown so much. It is really the lifeblood of our budget because the funding that comes from individuals is unrestricted, and so we can use it however we see fit.

Caleb: What challenges lie ahead for your organization?

Sara: I think the biggest challenge for us is the affordability of housing, especially in our region in Connecticut. So we have seen an increase in homelessness, not chronic homelessness, but we’ve seen an increase in homelessness lately, and we believe that it’s a direct correlation between the rise in homelessness and the housing affordability. So unless rental rates go down or housing becomes more affordable and accessible to the poor, we will continue to see these challenges, and so I think the economy and housing not being affordable are the two biggest challenges we face.

Caleb: Is there any data that you would like to share?

Sara: I did share a really important piece of data, which is that we’ve reduced chronic homelessness by 90%. Anything else that I think I’m really proud of with our data is we went from pretty much having zero volunteers eight, nine years ago to this year we’ve had over 500 people volunteer with our agency. We’ve moved in over 300 people just this year with furniture. We furnished their apartments, and so those are big, big numbers. We also, we’ve had several awards over the last couple of years, like national recognition for the speed in which we use our housing vouchers. So Hartford has been, Hartford meaning journey home, we’ve been recognized because during COVID we were given 50 vouchers, and there were many cities across the country who could not really use their vouchers as rapidly as we could, and we used them all in record time, and so it really speaks to the system. So we used like 100% of the vouchers where every other city had like used maybe 25% of theirs. So it was a big deal.

Caleb: Are there any final thoughts or things that you would want to add?

Sara: I the thing that I really try to focus on in this work is I want people to understand that I do think that homelessness can happen to anyone, I mean it happens because there isn’t a safety net present, and I also, what I want people to know is that I want them to spend some time, if they’re interested in this cause and in this issue, to spend some time with people who have experienced homelessness, and we at Journey Home give volunteers the opportunity to spend time with people who’ve experienced homelessness, and because I think when you hear their stories and how they got to where they are, I think compassion grows, and I really think that compassion can change the world, and I believe that within each of us, we have the ability to make the world a better place in our small corner of the world.

Caleb: Is there any place people can find you?

Sara: JourneyHomeCT.org.

Caleb: Okay. Thank you for your time.

Sara: Thanks Caleb.

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Journey Home

Mission & vision, what is the journey home.

Journey Home is a non-profit organization based in Murfreesboro, TN, that provides assistance to homeless individuals and families in the area. The organization offers a variety of services to help individuals experiencing homelessness, including emergency shelter, case management, employment services, and education assistance. Journey Home is committed to helping people find stable housing and achieve self-sufficiency. They work closely with other community organizations and government agencies to provide a comprehensive approach to addressing homelessness. Through their efforts, Journey Home has helped countless individuals and families in Murfreesboro find a path to a better life.

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The Journey Home Inc.

918-876-4184

Bartlesville OK | IRS ruling year: 2013 | EIN: 46-2378169  

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TO PROVIDE A "HOME" ENVIRONMENT FOR TERMINALLY ILL INDIVIDUALS NEEDING A FULL-TIME CAREGIVER DURING THE END STAGES OF LIFE, INCLUDING THOSE WHO HAVE LIMITED OR NO FI ... (More) TO PROVIDE A "HOME" ENVIRONMENT FOR TERMINALLY ILL INDIVIDUALS NEEDING A FULL-TIME CAREGIVER DURING THE END STAGES OF LIFE, INCLUDING THOSE WHO HAVE LIMITED OR NO FINANCIAL RESOURCES. SERVICES ARE PROVIDED AT NO COST TO GUESTS. MEDICAL SUPPORT IS PROVIDED  (Less)

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Nonprofit of the Month: Journey Home

Randy Lovelace of  Paragon Independent Insurance Agencies  introduces the Hello Woodlands Nonprofit of the Month, Journey Home, and interviews Founder and Director, Billie Beasley.

Watch our  video  interview below!

About Journey Home

Journey Home is a Christ-centered nonprofit Maternity Home existing to encourage and empower the women that walk through their doors to live the lives God intended for them to live.

Journey Home offers a comfortable family environment in which to learn skills and acquire tools for success in life‘s journey. We will offer housing, spiritual encouragement and practical support, and will work with other organizations to provide birthing classes, parenting classes, educational classes and similar opportunities.

Journey Home’s Mission: To be a nurturing home for both mother and child, offering love, accountability, and support along their journey.

Journey Home’s Vision: To be the maternity home the community trusts to recommend when a need arises.

Journey Home was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in April of 2019 and 40 weeks later opened their doors. They are now listed on a national Hotline for homeless and pregnant women and Organizations and Churches have come alongside Journey Home in one way or another to help the success of the organization. Journey home also receives referrals from Adoption Agencies, Pregnancy Care Centers, Womens Shelters, Hotlines and Journey Home website.

Founder and Director, Billie Beasley, shared, “Pregnant women need shelter in Montgomery County. This group in our society is hard to number because they are very transient. They are couch surfing and just barely getting by. Journey Home has had calls from ladies living in a car and from people who have put someone up in a hotel until they could find her a home. They have had women coming out of rehab needing a fresh start. They have had several young women aging out of foster care. One of their residents was running from an abusive relationship.”

About the home:

• Journey Home focuses on accepting 18-24, however we have taken a woman in her early 30’s.
• Journey Home has a beautifully decorated 3800 sq ft home.
• Journey Home has classes on everything from parenting to gardening to sexuality. Classes are all biblically based.
• Journey Home is one of the few that will allow a woman to bring a child under 6.
• Journey Home is the only maternity home in Montgomery County.
• Women stay at no cost and participate in our program up to 6 months after the baby is born.

Founder and Director, Billie Beasley has worked 22 years in ministry to youth at TDCJ, a full security jail for minors, 15 years at a pregnancy care center in Montgomery County – PACN, has been a Foster parent for Methodist Children’s Home as well as Arrow Family Ministries, and participated in adoption through CPS.

Learn more about Journey Home by visiting their Facebook page and the website at www.journeyhometx.org .

About Randy Lovelace

To learn more about Randy Lovelace, his “Referral for a Cause” program to help local nonprofit organizations, and of  Paragon Independent Insurance Agencies , please call (281) 298-0440, email [email protected] or visit  www.paragoninsagencies.com/woodlands .

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Journey Home is a comprehensive and supportive program for individuals experiencing homelessness . Journey Home is designed to provide a safe place for unsheltered persons to reside as they are connected to supportive services. Access to resources such as employment, mental health services and supplemental assistance will reduce many of the barriers which prevent individuals from obtaining and maintaining permanent housing. 

Journey Home has an Emergency Shelter, transitional housing units, and helps clients find and maintain permanent housing . Journey Home, First Presbyterian Church, Bethany Lutheran Church, and other organizations in town have partnered with Katy Trails Community Health to bring affordable or free medical care to Warrensburg through a mobile clinic each Tuesday. Every Thursday, Katy Trails or the Compass Health Network provide affordable or free dental care. Tuesday & Thursday, Journey Home organizes a breakfast and hot lunch at First Presbyterian Church of Warrensburg for the community, but especially for those in need. First Presbyterian Church is open from 8AM-3PM on Tuesday & Thursday. The Shop is another mission of Journey Home. The Shop takes donated household items and offers them for free to the community on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 1PM-4PM.

Journey Home is not the project of any particular organization or church, but is intended to be a place of support which is strongly endorsed and maintained by the Johnson County community . The board is seeking grant opportunities, however commitment from the community to maintain the program through donations, financial contributions, and volunteer involvement is an absolute necessity if the program is to be sustainable long term.

If you, your church, or your group/organization are interested in helping Journey Home, please visit our Shelter page, JCRC page, and The Shop pages for opportunities and continue reading below to see other donation links!

We greatly appreciate your help and look forward to seeing you!

Where to Contact Us

Journey Home

[email protected]

16 SW 265th Rd, Warrensburg, MO 64093

Grant Administrator

Mary McCord: 660-864-4470

Co-Directors & Social Workers

Melissa Werner: 660-238-3114

Erica Collins: 660-223-3260

or [email protected]

267 SE State Route 13, Warrensburg, MO 64093

Shop Director

Bob Kendall: 660-909-2186

Shop Supervisor

Raegan Presley: 660-441-2306

First Presbyterian Church

206 N College St, Warrensburg, MO 64093

Journey Home uses the HMIS database for its clients. Read our privacy policy here:

HMIS Privacy Policy

Journey Home is a sales tax exempt organization. See our form here:

MO Sales Tax Exempt Form

Journey Home is a nonprofit organization in Missouri. See our 501(c)(3) here:

Journey Home is a non-profit organization aimed at giving at-risk youth, as well as their parents the tools needed for growth. We proudly partner with communities and schools throughout Southern California to organize awareness events, parent support groups, and distribute suicide prevention and mental health messaging to those who need it most. 

Our Mission

To partner with communities and schools throughout Southern California to facilitate early intervention evidence-based life skills curriculums. We aim to create awareness and provide solutions for behavioral challenges.

Journey Home was established in 2019 to help kids and parents in the South Bay Southern California find their center when their family is at risk of fracture. This happens when each individual in the family lacks the tools to correct their course in the relationship.  Our focus is on mentoring kids through the challenges they face at school, with friends, and during stressful growth phases, and offering support to parents who struggle with the tools needed to parent challenging children. Most importantly, Journey Home is meant to be a lighthouse for those families feeling lost at sea, reminding them that firm land is near, and they are not alone.  

The Journey Home

Love God. Serve People.

Sign Up to Volunteer

The Journey Home offers a variety of individual and group opportunities to volunteer. Most volunteer opportunities require that the volunteer(s) attends an orientation and then training for their specific task.

Please note that our volunteer opportunities are Monday-Friday 8am-3pm.

The Community Cafe

Groups of 5 to 10 volunteers serve the community and provide fellowship while preparing, serving, and cleaning up during breakfast, lunch, and supper. The cafe is open 7 days a week and serves 100 to 125 lunches each day.

Third Thursdays Opportunity: Groups of 10 to 15 people from a business or other organization are invited to volunteer for the Third Thursday of each month providing lunch at The Journey Home. The team lead will meet with The Journey Home staff for training and then will provide leadership to their group in planning, preparing, and serving lunch.

Building and Maintenance

Handyman volunteers are needed for repairs and maintenance for Housing and Outreach Center, plumbing, electrical, carpentry, HVAC, painting, lawncare, and exteriors. Flexible schedule.

Outreach Center

Outreach Center volunteers are needed to help with general office functions, client service tasks, cleaning, organizing, and miscellaneous tasks. Monday through Friday 7am to 3pm.

Prayer Partners

Join us in praying intentionally for individual client needs, our homeless community, our volunteer community, the ministry, and its leaders daily.

Offsite Projects

• Notes of Encouragement
• Holiday Cards

Committee Members

Committee members can serve through our development, housing, operations, finance, or one of our event committees.

Volunteers would assist with the cleaning, moving of furniture, and other aspects involved in the process of moving clients in and out of houses.