SHELTER

Sometimes shelter is a bed that keeps a hospital discharge from becoming a sidewalk. Sometimes it’s a steady home that makes treatment possible. Sometimes it’s one safe room that prevents a night in a car.
At The Home Place, medical respite gives neighbors a place to recover with support, like one elderly man who arrived after months living in his car and left walking on his own, then transitioned into an apartment through the VA’s HUD-VASH program.
In Community Supportive Housing, stable housing and consistent care work together, like Lafayette at our Knoxville Horizon House, who is connected to ongoing mental health treatment, has embraced independent living, and says, “God’s been working on me.”
At Samaritan Place, transitional housing offers a safe place and a plan forward, like a woman on a fixed income who was priced out by rising rent and found an opening just before she would have been forced to sleep in her car.
“For I was… without a home, and you sheltered me.” (Matthew 25:35)
As Lent approaches, thank you for helping keep doors open and hope close.