Washington City Mission

Food shelter and rehabilitation program: the City Mission provided for over 451 unduplicated men, women and children. The combined total represents 38,039 bed nights of shelter, provided throughout the year. The food service program served free meals to nonresident homeless and near-homeless guests. Our long-term homeless rehabilitation programs provide men, women and children with healthcare, case management, counseling, educational, employment, letal and spiritual development services to encourage them to change and empower them to be productive members of society. Chapel services are an important part of each individual's success and residents attend devotional services 5 days a week and chapel services on sunday. We conducted chapel services, classes, bible studies, and recovery meetings. Each resident is required to attend morning devotions and a weekly chapel service. Work therapy is an important component to an individual's success and each resident is required to take part in this program.

Vocational training center and City Mission thrift stores: provide practical work opportunities for our program participants including but not limited to truck operations, which include picking up donations and interacting with staff, residents and donors, inventory sorting, forklift and baler operation, store replacement, and retail selling. In addition to its recycling operation, the Mission operates 7 hidden treasure retail thrift stores, located in southwestern Pennsylvania and morgantown, wv. These stores provide furniture, small durable goods and collectibles, plus a broad range of clothing, toys, electronics and household items to those who are in need of quality lower priced items. The items are processed, sorted, priced arranged and displayed for retail sale which provides an opportunity for work experience for program participants and revenue to fund Mission operations. Donated property pick-up service is provided and a portion of the donations may be used in Mission operations.

Community outreach/mission program: the Mission distributes food, clothing, and miscellaneous items to all who have need in the community. Our samaritan service center distributed over 7,033 food bags and 195 clothing vouchers distributed worth 30 each to those in need in our community. Special programs are conducted in september (back to school), november (thanksgiving), december (christmas) and march/april (easter) to provide for the need in the community, especially the children. Our christmas program focuses on providing necessities and toys to families who otherwise would not have the ability to provide these items at this very special time of year.