Philosophy of Metro’s Programs

To promote the development of supportive services and housing, including innovative approaches to assist homeless persons in the transition from homelessness, and to promote the provision of supportive housing to homeless persons to enable them to live as independently as possible.

Major Focus Areas:

• Shalom House Emergency Shelter Program – provides a 90-day 25 bed emergency shelter with supportive services for women with serious and persistent mental illness and/or chemical dependency, with the goal of providing women with the help they need to stabilize and begin to work on skills to transition to independent living.  
  
  
• Shalom House Transitional Housing Program – provides a 24-month innovative, semi-independent rehabilitation housing program for 12 women with a serious and persistent mental illness and/or chemical dependency, with the goal of providing women with the skills needed to transition to independent living.
  
  All women in Shalom House have access to on-site professional staff including a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Substance Abuse Counselor, Psychiatric Nurse and Supportive Services Coordinator as well as many Psychiatric Technicians that monitor the facility 24/7. All women in Shalom House are linked with long-term outside resources that will follow them even after they have left Shalom House and are permanently housed.