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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.
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