Page 5 - 2018 Capital Campaign Brochure

Southeast Michigan Impact

• Samaritas Home and Community Campus - Emergency
Shelter Renovation, Senior, Family and Foster Youth
Affordable Living

• Samaritas House Heartline – Women’s Re-entry Program
Home Renovation and Program Expansion to Serve
Human Trafficking Victims
• New Americans Refugee Services – New Neighborhood
Development
• Senior Living Campus Expansion and Innovative
Memory Care Community
• Disability Services – Memory Care Gardens and
State-of-the-Art Equipment

• Office Consolidation

Samaritas Home and Community Campus
Recent State of Michigan government
There are very few shelters that provide private rooms for homeless statistics show:
families, and we’re proud to say that the Samaritas Family Center
in Westland is one of them. The facility can accommodate up to • More than 26,000 people in metro Detroit are
25 families at once and serves up to 120 families each year. We homeless.
also manage The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) • 37 percent of the State’s homeless population is
of Wayne County. Since 1994, this collaboration with the county composed of families with children.
has helped to provide emergency shelter, food, medical and dental
resources and job training and educational support for families, "Five months ago, my family and I
and the need is growing. entered the doors of this center
– disappointed, broke and not
We will remodel the existing building to provide permanent knowing what to expect. Five
supportive housing opportunities for our families. We also will months later I can truly say God
create new living spaces on the campus to include affordable has used you to help my family in
housing opportunities for seniors with a dedicated space for many ways. On behalf of my wife
memory care, and for teenagers who are aging out of the foster and children, we say, Thank you.
care system. Thank you. Thank you."

Freedom Village in Hamtramck – A Samaritas Family Center Westland client

Samaritas is meeting the needs of individuals and families who
have been forced to flee their home country due to persecution, Samaritas House Detroit - Heartline
war or violence. Virtually 100% of those we serve are victims of Samaritas House Detroit is one of the few centers of its kind
trauma; 60% are victims of torture. At Samaritas, refugees are in Michigan and the Heartline program has helped transition
welcomed as New Americans. We work with them to ensure they women from prison into the community for over 50 years. It also
are no longer defined by what has happened to them, but by who is a residence program for women who are victims of human
they are, and all that they have the potential to be.
trafficking; homeless; leaving a drug rehabilitation program;
We will partner with Wayne County to help build a secure and escaping a home broken by addiction and domestic abuse;
integrative neighborhood, allowing refugee families to transition or are on probation for a criminal offense. All desire to gain
toward their permanent homes. Each partner organization the skills and self-confidence needed to become self-sufficient,
recognizes the contributions that refugees bring to the vitality of productive citizens.
the community-new families, businesses and civic institutions The Giving Hope campaign seeks to remodel and expand the
which accentuate economic strength, diversity and cultural facility for this program for the first time in several decades in
dynamism.
an effort to serve more women and increase our services to
human trafficking victims.

5 Giving Hope a Samaritas Campaign