Empowering homeless individuals and families to end their homelessness and rebuild their lives by providing the critical first step of identification replacement services
In 2024, we assisted over 17,000 people, many who have experienced:
Obtaining birth certificates and IDs is a significant barrier when homeless, compounding their vulnerability and making it harder to end their homelessness. These documents are essential for jobs, housing, education, childcare, and medical services.
A crucial service for those rebuilding their lives and creating a stable future. Our nationally unique ‘Help Starts Here’ program helps replace lost or stolen identification documents, a common issue for the homeless.
Assist clients in acquiring, at no cost to them, replacement identification documents including birth certificates and other supporting documents.
Help clients prevent loss, theft, or destruction of identification documents by keeping them safe with us.
An ID is a necessary first step towards ending one’s homelessness.
Obtain a stable income
Sign a lease
Enroll children in school
Access to medical care
Access to services
“When you experience homelessness, you get used to being invisible.
And now you don’t even have a piece of ID that says who you are.”
Top reasons we see:
Loss or theft
Domestic abuse control
Eviction, locked out
Aged out of foster care system
“Not having an ID can make escaping homelessness virtually impossible”
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Let’s work together to empower individuals to end their homelessness!
Homelessness is not “just the way it is”. It is NOT an inevitable reality. But, it will not end until we understand it and we will not understand it unless we talk about it. So let’s talk about it.
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