Our Mission

Our mission is to empower individuals and families to overcome homelessness and rebuild their lives by providing access to replacement identification documents required to obtain jobs, housing, and other vital services.

Our Vision

Our vision is to eliminate barriers to obtaining identification documents across America.

Belief Statement

We believe that a person’s ability to get a piece of paper or plastic card should not be what stops them from ending their homelessness.

Core Values

We operate under seven core values.

We do not exist for the sake of the agency. We do not exist to build a better mouse trap or to become more efficient at our work – but a better mouse trap and increased efficiency allows us to serve more. We work to end homelessness. We work to eliminate the need for our agency to exist. We will serve the client as long as needed and we will work to eliminate the need.

Clients – especially clients since it is easy to be disrespectful of those who live under our line of sight – deserve respect. Every person working to solve homelessness, to ease the way for kids aging out of foster care, to assist the transition from jail or prison back into society, and every government employee working with one arm tied behind their back due to inadequate funding deserves respect. They matter just as you and I matter.

The work of Homeless ID Project is inspiring to volunteers, donors, and most anyone who learns of the work. The hope is that clients of Homeless ID Project are inspired and empowered by the fact that what seemed impossible (reestablishing one’s identity) is possible. And if that is possible, what else is possible?

An ID does not end homelessness by itself but without an ID little else is possible. To quote our founder, Rev Gerald Roseberry, “Without an ID they were stuck!”

We are about ending homelessness. Our work would look different if we were about IDs, but we are about providing IDs so that clients can take advantage of other services provided by our valued partners on the Human Services Campus, in The Center of Opportunity, or in one of our dozen or more shared space locations in the community. We are intentionally partner centric. We are a single variable in a complex equation. One piece.  

 

Homelessness is not inevitable. It’s not ‘just the way it is.’ But it will not end until we understand it and we will not understand it unless we talk about it. Let’s talk about it.

A $12 donation covers the cost of an ID and an ID may be the single thing that ends the homelessness of an individual or even an entire family. Every dollar matters and every dollar entrusted to Homeless ID Project returns more than $70 to the community. That looks like good stewardship.