What We Do
A Place For You helps individual men and women who are experiencing homelessness in Pine, Kanabec, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Carlton and Chisago county. We help by providing temporary shelter, individualized program plans, resource direction, support and encouragement to each of the residents during and after their stay at the shelter. The program is a 90 day program, so the program plan is very intense to be able to help the residents transition into stable housing within the 90 days.
A Place For You helps individual men and women who are experiencing homelessness in Pine, Kanabec, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Carlton and Chisago county. We help by providing temporary shelter, individualized program plans, resource direction, support and encouragement to each of the residents during and after their stay at the shelter. The program is a 90 day program, so the program plan is very intense to be able to help the residents transition into stable housing within the 90 days.
- We serve 5 men and 6 women at a time. Resident bedrooms are either single or double occupancy.
- While they live here, residents have a mailing address for applications and important mail.
Who We Help
A Place For You helps individual men and women, 18 years of age and older, residing in our service area that are homeless. We are the only shelter between the Twin Cities and Duluth for single adults.
A Place For You helps individual men and women, 18 years of age and older, residing in our service area that are homeless. We are the only shelter between the Twin Cities and Duluth for single adults.
Did you Know?
- As of November 5, 2020 we have been open for 8 years.
- In 2019 we served 92 adults.
- We have served 561 residents since we opened in 2012.
- Since January of 2019 we have received 926 calls inquiring about services for potential residents.
- The most common reason (38%) for not accepting a potential resident is that we are full & have no open beds.
- 41% of residents find permanent housing.
- 17% of our residents are employed when they arrive. 48% are employed when they leave.
- 42.5% of funding comes from grants.
- Donations account for 31.6% of our operating budget.
- 16.5% of funding is from fund-raising events.