Centers for Working Families
Centers for Working Families is an opt-in program offered to those in Follow Up Care and those living in the Pontiac community. Centers for Working Families provides economic and employment case management services to give clients the skills and resources necessary to increase their economic stability.
Follow-Up Care
Follow-Up Care is a 12-month case management service offered to those who exit a Lighthouse housing or shelter program into positive housing. Follow Up Care case managers follow clients through their first year of housing to provide support and resources to ensure that clients are able to maintain their housing.
Permanent Supportive Housing
Permanent Supportive Housing is a client choice, scattered site housing subsidy program that provides intensive case management to clients. Participants must be literally homeless at time of application, have a documented long-term disability, and a history of long-term homelessness to qualify for this housing program. This program is funded by HUD and operates in Oakland […]
Transitional Housing
Transitional Housing is a 2-year supportive housing program that provides clients with the skills/resources to obtain their own positive housing upon program exit. We offer both place-based and scattered-site housing. Participants must be literally homeless or at risk of being homeless. The head of household for these programs must be a single mother with at […]
Emergency Shelter
Lighthouse provides emergency shelter to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness. We established a permanent family emergency shelter in 2021 that includes 18 units and 54 beds of emergency shelter dedicated to families with children. Of those who exited our shelter programs in 2022, 77.5% transitioned from shelter to housing. In 2022, Lighthouse served 434 […]
Emergency Food Distribution
Lighthouse continues to distribute emergency food in ways that protect clients, volunteers, and staff from contracting and spreading COVID-19. From our newly established food warehouse we store, package, and distribute produce and shelf stable food boxes. Lighthouse makes every effort to provide well-balanced food boxes packed with fresh produce, milk, bread and pantry stables such […]
