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home & community Home and Community 2,254

This service area focuses on

obtaining stable and affordable Persons Served
homes, and keeping those we Samaritas believes that no matter your
serve safely in their own homes, budget, everyone deserves a beautiful,
or natural settings. Programs comforting place to live. For people on
include Affordable Living, Persons a fixed income, with low or no income,
with Disabilities, Support Services, Samaritas offers affordable living in
Michigan thanks to our Housing and
Samaritas House Heartline, The Family Urban Development (HUD) subsidized
Center Westland, and the Temporary communities.
Emergency Food Assistance Program.
The Family Center is a partnership of
Some highlights from 2019 include: Samaritas and Wayne County, offering
emergency shelter for homeless families.
Two-parent families, single mothers
• 1,451 people served through our or fathers with children and pregnant
Affordable Living communities for seniors women are welcome.
and persons with disabilities.
• 63 people lived at our homes for persons with We empower people with disabilities
to have a voice in their own care
disabilities. and become involved members of
Our Home and Community division comprises our Family Center which provides • 247 Samaritas House Heartline residents took their communities. We transform
temporary housing, day care and medical care for homeless families as well as the Wayne advantage of new individualized substance abuse therapy lives through person-centered care,
County temporary emergency food assistance program. We own and/or manage multiple programming. individualized support and deep,
Affordable Living Communities, most with a service coordinator for high quality • 381 persons served through our Family Center Westland. meaningful connections with caregivers.
residential life, and all with exceptional community service partnerships and collaboration. • 35 distribution Sites for the Temporary Emergency Food

The Samaritas Community Center in Saginaw provides after school athletic and tutoring Assistance Program.
programs for neighborhood children and meals for families in the community. • 131,167 hours of At Home Support Services provided.

We provide At Home Services, which include support for Persons with Disabilities, home
health, speech, physical and occupational rehabilitation, and private duty home care,
allowing individuals to remain in their own community and at home.

For more than 50 years, we have helped women make the transition from prison to
society at our Samaritas House in Detroit. We manage 14 group Homes for Persons with
Disabilities, located within Michigan communities across the state.