CITY MISSION OF FINDLAY OHIO

City Mission's goal is to have an access point to care for every individual experiencing the circumstances that lead to poverty, food insecurity, and homelessness. To proved food, shelter, and advocacy for every individual seeking help.

By providing a Low Barrier Shelter, easy access to services. Offering every person has a safe place to sleep and the ability to begin to access care at the lowest barrier level.
A program shelter, a place to develop tools to move forward. Each guest is given an advocate to assist them to identify goals and then achieve them. Offering educational opportunities, transportation, and encouragement while offering food and shelter, our goal is to help each individual create and implement a life recovery plan.
A community feeding program, offering hot meals 365 days a year to anyone in need. With a walk up - take out feeding window, City Mission offers easy access to hot prepared food, 365 days a year. NO id or sign up required to receive meals.

City Mission has served in Hancock County for over 90 years. We have a facility that will house 122 persons a night, a kitchen that is prepared to serve up to 500 hot meals a day. We recently purchased and are renovation a women with children's emergency crisis shelter. This will allow us to serve up to 9 women with children, with the ability to double that capacity if needed. We have received funding to put a low barrier shelter in place that will offer access to care at extreme low barrier. Offering shelter and food as well as outreach to assist the chronically and unsheltered homeless enter the continuum of care.
We have a life recovery program, where advocates assist guests in identifying barriers, receiving services and making choices to overcome those barriers.

After the pandemic, in 2021 we began to look at a programmatic shelter model. Offering life recovery, to include workforce development, transportation, advocacy and case management. Longer term stays for those needing additional assistance with obtaining SUD or mental health services. We have developed strong working relationships with the agencies offering services to our guests. These changes have allowed us to see a significant increase in healthy and successful move outs.
We started offering a walk up window for the community to receive hot meals. This increased our community meal service by nearly 500% in 3 years.
Seeing the need for a low barrier shelter for the unsheltered homeless, we applied jointly with the local ADAMHS board and the local mental health facility to receive funding for a low barrier crisis shelter through SAMHSA. We have been notified a our approval for that funding.
We also saw an increased need for shelter for women with children. We have secured the property and are in the process of renovation. This will double our capacity to serve this population.