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Angels Over Atlanta
...for our Guests with physical and/or mental disabilities
...for our Guests with physical and/or mental disabilities
Essential Services
In addition to meals and the same core services provided through the Renewal Project -- the Angels program provides extended case management tailored specifically for each of our homeless Guests with a physical and/or mental disability.
About 17% of those we help each year are served through the Angels program. These homeless Guests are the most vulnerable -- and typically chronically homeless.
Through extended case management, essential services can include:
In addition to meals and the same core services provided through the Renewal Project -- the Angels program provides extended case management tailored specifically for each of our homeless Guests with a physical and/or mental disability.
About 17% of those we help each year are served through the Angels program. These homeless Guests are the most vulnerable -- and typically chronically homeless.
Through extended case management, essential services can include:
- Assisting them with applying for public benefits to which they are entitled
- Assisting our homeless Guests with access to food, housing, transportation and substance abuse treatment as needed
- Helping to connect them with other services that can help lead to their stability
Program Director Emily McIver
emily@crossroadsatlanta.org
Guest Highlights
Joe Nunez is deeply grateful to Crossroads, and program director Emily McIver. For years he had unstable housing, and forced to sleep in the woods for periods of time ...even during cold winters.
Emily helped him secure his disability benefits, and after years on a waiting list Crossroads paid his first month's rent and deposit to enable him to move into a safe, clean, and HUD-subsidized retirement community. Now Joe has stable housing -- in a warm, comfortable and affordable apartment.
Pictured above L-R are Angels Over Atlanta program director Emily McIver with Guest Brenda Brown. With longstanding challenges with mental illnesses, Brenda has been an Angels program Guest since 2002. Thanks to Emily's and Crossroads' ongoing commitment to Brenda living as self sufficiently as possible -- all of the incremental progress over the years helped Brenda this year to achieve overall stability, complete her Certification as a Nurse's Aide, get a Georgia's Driver's License, and move to suitable permanent housnig.
Joe Nunez is deeply grateful to Crossroads, and program director Emily McIver. For years he had unstable housing, and forced to sleep in the woods for periods of time ...even during cold winters.
Emily helped him secure his disability benefits, and after years on a waiting list Crossroads paid his first month's rent and deposit to enable him to move into a safe, clean, and HUD-subsidized retirement community. Now Joe has stable housing -- in a warm, comfortable and affordable apartment.
Pictured above L-R are Angels Over Atlanta program director Emily McIver with Guest Brenda Brown. With longstanding challenges with mental illnesses, Brenda has been an Angels program Guest since 2002. Thanks to Emily's and Crossroads' ongoing commitment to Brenda living as self sufficiently as possible -- all of the incremental progress over the years helped Brenda this year to achieve overall stability, complete her Certification as a Nurse's Aide, get a Georgia's Driver's License, and move to suitable permanent housnig.
Angels Wish List:
- Cash donations are extremely helpful -- you can make your donation online, or mail your donation to Crossroads
- Funding for additional MARTA assistance to enable Guests to get to regular medical and other appointments
- Hygiene supplies: razors, shampoo, conditioner, soap, lotion, powder, deodorant, combs and brushes, Pampers, baby wipes, powdered baby formula
- Female hygiene products
- Back packs
- Office/desk chair with arms and wheels
- Office supplies: pens, colored paper, tape, manila file folders
- Hand sanitizer, disinfectant sprays, office cleaning supplies
- Supplies of Kleenex and paper towels