Page 8 - Samaritas Annual Report 2018

home & community Home and Community 3,231

This service area focuses on Persons Served
obtaining stable and affordable Samaritas believes that no matter your
homes, and keeping those we budget, everyone deserves a beautiful,
serve safely in their own homes, or comforting place to live. For people on
natural settings. Programs include a fixed income, with low or no income,

Affordable Living, Persons with Samaritas offers affordable living in
Michigan thanks to our Housing and
Disabilities, Support Services, Home Urban Development (HUD) subsidized
Health, Samaritas House Heartline, communities.
The Family Center Westland, and the
The Family Center is a partnership of
Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Samaritas and Wayne County, offering
Program. emergency shelter for homeless families.
Two-parent families, single mothers
Highlights include: or fathers with children and pregnant

• 1,579 people served through our Affordable women are welcome.
Living communities for seniors and persons We empower people with disabilities
with disabilities. to have a voice in their own care
• 70 people lived at our homes for persons with and become involved members of
Our Home and Community division comprises our Family Center which provides disabilities. their communities. We transform
temporary housing, day care and medical care for homeless families as well as the Wayne • 116 Samaritas House Heartline residents took advantage lives through person-centered care,
individualized support and deep,
County temporary emergency food assistance program. We own and/or manage multiple of new individualized substance abuse therapy programming. meaningful connections with caregivers.
Affordable Living Communities, most with a service coordinator for high quality • 358 persons served through our Family Center Westland.
residential life, and all with exceptional community service partnerships and collaboration. • 34 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. • 164,986 hours of Home Health 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.