Emergency Housing Retention

The Emergency Housing Retention (EHR)  program helps working poor families, low-income seniors and disabled persons in crisis to avoid homelessness.  More and more traditionally middle class families are slipping into the ranks of the "working poor" and facing crisis due to under-employment, stagnant wage growth, lack of affordable housing and lack of health care benefits.  These families are now being forced to choose between food, shelter, transportation and healthcare as the costs for these basic necessities outpace increases in wage growth.

The EHR program provides assistance with Temporary Emergency Transitional Housing, rental assistance, mortgage assistance, utilities payments and through our Restoring Homes, Restoring Hope (RHRH) Program, small home repairs.

Repairing Homes, Restoring Hope

Repairing Homes, Restoring Hope (RHRH) assists homeowners with the cost of emergency home repairs. Relief from unsafe, unsanitary and unsecure living conditions is the goal for RHRH.

In response to the need for a viable vehicle to help homeless families achieve their full potential, a collection of faith-based organizations and congregations are working to combine the resources of the faith-based community in a collaborative effort to assist families in breaking out of the vicious cycle of homelessness.

 This collaborative effort, Faith-based Action In Transitional Housing (FAITH), will work to create opportunities for transitional housing that will assist homeless families in St. Charles Lincoln and Warren counties.

The needs incurred during a disaster are many and varied.  The Care Service is a beacon in the darkness of a disaster.  Whether it be the Floods of 1993 in Missouri or Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, the Care Service has stepped up and out to the community around it to provide hope.

We have collaborated with many local and federal agencies to provide that hope.