The Cathedral Center and Friendship House envision a community where women and families can planfully pursue a safe place to live, raise their children, and support one another in achieving health and well-being. Utilizing our unique Flexible Emergency Housing model and strength-based approach to service delivery, our Friendship House program strives to ensure that our guests have a safe place to live while addressing barriers to long-term housing stability and health.
Services at The Cathedral Center are grounded in a housing-focused model. Our priority is to ensure that every woman and family has housing before they leave shelter, whenever possible.
What is the value of housing? It’s not just about the economic benefits – it’s about the value of the individual, a person’s dignity and well-being. We know that housing reduces the financial burden of emergency shelter services, municipal citations for homeless individuals, emergency room visits, and other 9-1-1 calls. More importantly, housing restores the ability for a woman to sleep safely in her own bed, in her own home, without fear of victimization. It’s about the security of her children, who now have a stable place to call home
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