Who we are

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Fresh Start Transitional Home was founded in a Chicago, IL as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. The nonprofit will serve homeless women with children in need of transitional housing and life skills training. Evangelist Terry is the President and Executive Director of the organization. 

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Our Goals

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The goal of the organization is to provide interim housing and skill training so that clients can become empowered, independent individuals. Fresh Start Transitional Homes will make a significant impact on the Chicago communities and the surrounding cities in both short-term, with immediate relief from homelessness with its long-duration transitional housing, and the long-term with skill development and empowerment that will enable individuals to provide for themselves after completing the comprehensive empowerment program. 

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Our Services

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Fresh Start is an organization that provides transitional housing and life skill training for mothers with dependent children 17 years and younger. It offers assistance to women who are frequently homeless, as they transition from dependent, often abusive relationships, into self-sufficient lifestyles. This is one of the city's women with children-facility with long-term transitional housing. Most other shelters only offer 30 days or less of housing whereas Fresh Start offers up to two years, with our on site staff including a chemical dependency counselor and family counselor. 

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Fresh Start offers rooms for up to 15 families at a time, each with its own kitchen facility to homeless women. Each client is allowed to stay for up to two years as long as they are clean and sober (random drug and alcohol testing determines this), and have no other place to go. Additionally, each client must be an active participant of the program:

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Collaborative Approach to Empowering Individual. This is an eight-step program to develop self-sufficient clients. The different elements of the program are:

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1. Personal development planning

2. Vocational development

3. Substance abuse prevention

4. Interpersonal skill development

5. Personal and spiritual development

6. Community involvement

7. Creative leisure activities/celebration

8. Independent living preparation/follow up

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If you can find it in your heart, please help us realize vision to purchase a multi-family home so that our homeless mothers and children will know they are not forgotten and that we care for them. We truly thank each and every one of you for your generous support in making this goal a reality in advance. If you cannot contribute financially, but would love to help us achieve our goal, please share this with your friends and family.

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FSTH will offer other Services such as: Case Management, Housing Placement, Rental Assistance, Financial Literacy Classes, Employment Education, Daycare assistant and Vocational Study

 

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