About Us

About This Program

Important Details

1. This homeless charity does not bar people from housing and assistance due to applicants not having an ID, or being outside the general vicinity and locality of our facilities like other homeless shelters do. When I was homeless, we had no local shelters and resources, and the non-local shelters were several towns away, and did not house me due to not being local to them. I never want to see the homeless barred from getting help simply because they are not within the local vicinity of a shelter that could house them.

2. This homeless charity will always provide transportation to the homeless to our facilities for housing and rehabilitation, to local resources including medical, shopping, food, DHS, SSA, Colleges, and employments, and will also transport rehabilitated clients back home into local housing and employments whatever they call home. We have worked with Amtrak, and various bus and taxi services in the past, and on few occasions have even personally picked clients up in my semi when trucking. When I was homeless, the few shelters that did house non-local residents, did not provide transportation for me to get to shelter. Local shelters that allowed a couple weeks stay never provided transportation for the homeless and their needs, disadvantaging the homeless from getting properly rehabilitated.

3. We are not a short term or temporary homeless shelter. We do not, nor will ever push the homeless out after two weeks like many shelters, nor rotate locations every day or weekend like PADS, and we are not closed seasonally either. We are a year round, stationary facility (with more facilities coming), and the purpose of our program is to eliminate the root cause of your homelessness, which requires adequate time in rehabilitating you.

4. We have a residential house in Avon IL at this time, which can house up to eight (8) homeless clients. That is two double rooms, , and one quad room. In emergency situations, we may make use of the living room for bunking, and large backyard can always hold heated tents in severe situations. We also have 'White Woods" in Joliet (Formerly Joliet's 'Tent City') if we ever get full or overflowed, which guarantees emergency employment in 2 business days and shelter.

5. We rehabilitate the homeless through higher education. If you don't have a High School Diploma or GED, that is what you work on first, but to keep staying and getting helped, attending higher education comes next. There are three local affordable colleges within driving distance, and public transportation available from our Avon property to and from campus. There are dozens of degrees, certificates, trades to choose from. We also partner with other places, including two Job Corps locations, which can help you get GED, and skilled trades in addition to housing. Our last option is paid CDL school and into a high paying trucking job within 1-2 weeks of contacting us. Trucking jobs pay between $1000-$2000 a WEEK, plus there's no rent and utility costs and you can live in your semi, and start getting pad in one week of starting. We provide you help getting your Driver's License, Commercial Learner's Permit (CLP), and into a trucking job. Your criminal record does not bar you from any of these options, nor does a lack of work history or references, we got you covered on all that and more, opening many doors for you and your future 100% guaranteed!

NOTES:

1. We do not offer services anywhere in Cook County or the City of Joliet. Our service is for the entire state of Ilinois, except Cook County and the City of Joliet. There are plenty of services in those areas already established.

2. Our services are for men only. We do not house females in our facilities and programs, however we do partner with other agencies to offer remote services and fill gaps that other agencies helping women don't cover. We have helped domestic abuse victims into Harbor House facilities in the past, where Harbor House failed to accept these women due to no IDS and needing transportation to their locations. We may provide assistance with IDs, transportation, and temporary emergency housing for women until meeting qualifications to be accepted into Harbor House or another battered women's shelter. We do not assist non-abused women with homeless services in any capacity. Qualifying factors needed from domestic female victims are based on the partner agencies requirements, but for good measure, we generally need (1) actual physical evidence of domestic abuse (police reports are not evidence). This can be court findings and judgements of abuse. Judgements of violations of orders of protactions are not accepted unless it included physical abuse. Non-court records may include photographic evidence of battery of the victim. These are by no means strictly required, as we base our requirements on what our partner facilities require, but they generally require actual evidence of physical abuse.

3. We do not accept couples, nor whole families into our program and shelter. If you are already married or have kids, you should alreaady have been in successful employment and lifelong profession. In emergency situations of burnt houses or other situations where whole families are left homeless, there are resources available to help keep housing and rehouse you and your families, and we can assist in getting you those resources externally and directed to the proper agencies and offices for those resources. Our program is meant to eradicate the root cause of homelessness for chronic homeless men through higher education so they may acheiev employability and financial success and be successful future husbands and successful future fathers and lead successful futures and successful lives and support a family.

Important Areas we focus on include:

1. Iroquois County

2. Kankakee County

3. Vermillion County

4. Champaign County

5. Fulton County

6. McDonnough County

7. Knox County

8. Ford County

These communities are marginalized and isolated from homeless assistance and rehabilitation services. No real hoemelss assistance exists in these areas. We pickup, house, rehabilitate, and reintegrate those who are in need in Illinois.

If you are not seeking emergency help, and are seeking to partner, plese provide your agency contact information when contacting.

For Donations, please follow the FB link, and message on the FB page, and auto-reply will come back with both our emergency application for clients as well as for non-clients we ask for donations from anyone and everyone who isn't asking for homeless rehabilitation. You can pay be card that way. Messages sent through this website form about donations will be ignored, I'm only one person, and most of this is automated, and it's staying that way, so if you are not homeless and needing emergency help and rehabilitation or an already-established agency wanting to partner to help those in need, or providing an donation through our FB message automated system you are wasting my time.