We have been partnering with the Housing Commission for several years to procure transitional apartments at reasonable rates.
We are fortunate to partner with this private landlord who provides 2 apartments for our transitional housing program.
We partner with FAS to ensure that all of our guests have access to mental health services. Clinicians will come to our shelter facilities, if necessary.
The wonderful people at SVDP help with short hotel stays until a room becomes available. They also provide vouchers for food, household goods, clothing, and furniture to program participants moving into our transitional apartments.
NSC provides our guests with energy assistance and occasional rental assistance. They also have a food bank which our guests can utilize. We share information and referrals for shelter applicants.
Each shelter guest has a social worker. They can help coordinate items needed for moving into housing and offer some help with rent on certain occasions. DSS also provides parenting classes for our guests.
Their scholarship program has enabled several of our families to afford child care. We also recently partnered with them to help their single-parent families afford daytime childcare during the pandemic.
Our local CoC is through Mid-Shore Behavioral Health. This is a great resource for all homeless services on the Mid-Shore. They host a Roundtable on Homelessness meeting every second Tuesday of the month.
MSH provides affordable housing for people with a mental health diagnosis as part of Mid-Shore Behavioral Health.
Crossroads provides outreach case management and affordable housing for people with a mental health diagnosis.
TCHD offers smoking cessation classes and other health related services. We have been in close touch throughout the COVID crisis.
Job seekers can post resumes online, or on the board at the office. They also provide job counseling. Occasionally we receive referrals from them for people seeking shelter.
We partnered with the Chesapeake College Nursing Department in 2018 to provide health education for our guests.
We collaborate with MSCFV to provide shelter and services for victims of domestic violence and their families.
It is important that we are able to provide every possible resource a guest could need to reclaim their independence and move forward successfully as they progress through our S4 Program and beyond.
We are incredibly fortunate to partner with other organizations throughout the area to provide everything from housing to rental assistance, educational programming to mental health services. It takes a village, and our village is extraordinary!
We are always looking for new ways to help our guests build success! If your organization provides a service that assists people living in poverty, and you would like to partner with Talbot Interfaith Shelter to help our guests move from homelessness to self-sufficiency, we would love to hear from you! Use the form to the right to reach out to us, and we will be in touch to see if we can work together to change lives!
If you are interested in learning more about becoming a service partner, simply fill out the form below.