"Helping one Individual at a time"
The largest homeless serving agency in North Idaho serving 2,958 unduplicated individuals in 2010. Since 1949 we have served the community by offering the only Men's Emergency Shelter in North Idaho (17 beds), Woman's Shelter(15 beds), 54 units of transitional housing, and over 250 units of affordable housing. Home of the regions only HELP Center we have a "one stop shop" that is home to 14 non-profits-providing 19 life saving programs all under 1 roof. We also have 24 social service programs that include Art on the Edge (art outreach), ICARE (parenting and child abuse prevention), case management, voucher program for utility and rental assistance, Legal Link, Veteran Services, senior housing, Housing First, a Monday through Friday soup kitchen and 2 thrift stores.
We believe...
In the dignity of the human person
In the identification of Jesus with the poor
In the preferential option for the poor
That Jesus is the Evangelizer and Servant of the poor
That growth in intimacy with Jesus is a lifelong process
That poverty of spirit is the primary beatitude
That our primary concern is charity and justice
That prayer is essential: personal and communal
In the virtue of humility: personal and corporate
In the virtue of charity, inside and outside the Society
In Divine Providence
In Friendship
In Community
In Simplicity
