Homeless Solutions, Inc.

At Homeless Solutions, we are aiming to break the cycle of homelessness. It is expensive to live in Morris County. Many of the families in our programs are working two or three minimum wage earning jobs and still cannot afford to pay rent while taking care of their basic needs - like food. They get stuck in a vicious cycle where they're bouncing from shelter to shelter, sleeping on floors, and lacking that sense of security.

Homeless Solutions aims to restore security and self-sufficiency to our participants through our structured programs.

Our organization's key strategies can be found in our Life Skills Curriculum. Our Life Skills Curriculum helps guests get back on their feet by teaching them skills such as money management, resume writing, effective parenting techniques, nutrition, and more. We aim to educate and empower our program participants by identifying what caused their homelessness and giving them the tools they need to get back on their feet, so that they can be independent.

When participants graduate from our program, they are given the opportunity to enroll in HSI's Family Supportive Housing Program, also known as "Outreach". This program provides follow up case management services for two years following their exit from our program. These families can continue to attend educational workshops and participate in the seasonal item distributions. The goal is to ensure that our graduates remain housed and do not cycle back into homelessness.

We offer a range of services to help the people in our program become self-sufficient and not cycle back into homelessness.

Main Shelter: Our 85-bed shelter is designed for short-term stay. It provides a safe, secure, supportive, drug and alcohol free environment. Our highly structured programs provide goal-oriented case management, our Like Skills curriculum, childcare, and more.

THP: Home to families whose adult members are employed and working hard to obtain independence and permanent housing.

Outreach: Provides follow up case management services for two years following participants exit from THP. Our goal is to ensure that they remain housed and do not cycle back into homelessness

Mt. Kemble Home: Provides safe, affordable housing for senior women of limited means

HSI Women's Campus: Provides safe, affordable housing for single women who are homeless or at-risk. The campus is made up of eight homes with four single bedrooms per home, where residents share communal living spaces like the living area, kitchen and dining room.

Affordable Rental Housing Units: Through construction, renovation, and advocacy, our housing development team creates award-winning, environmentally-friendly homes that people can afford.

Over the past 40 years, we have been developing and expanding our Programs and Services to accommodate the increasing demands to help our homeless neighbors in need. We started as a small shelter in the basement of a church helping single men. Today we are the largest provider of homeless services in Morris County and helped over 500 men, women, and children last year.

In addition to our Main Shelter and Transitional Housing, we provide affordable housing. We began our Housing Development in 2004 with 15 apartments, and today we own and operate 74 affordable rental units.
Over the past several years, we expanded our programs to include our Mt. Kemble Home for senior women of limited means and a Warming Center for the street homeless during the winter months providing 1,872 bed nights last year. We recently launched the HSI Women's Campus, a shared housing model for homeless and at-risk single women that includes a campus with eight houses accommodating 32 residents.

We recently completed renovations for our Next Level Shelter Expansion Project that provides twice as much space for a new Kitchen and Dining Room, allowing larger volunteer groups. It will also result in a new permanent Overnight Center with showers and bathrooms and laundry facilities for emergency shelter on both the coldest and hottest nights.

We have a robust history and continue to evolve to accommodate the needs of our community, always with our mission in mind to offer shelter, services, and supportive housing to homeless and low-income people. We are making an impact and helping to break the cycle of homelessness by providing A Hand Up, not a Handout.