Brief Description
Those receiving help consist largely of low/no-income households, single parent families, the elderly, mentally/emotionally handicapped persons and recent immigrant groups.
Through prayer support, direct aid relief, advocacy, referral and guidance, CES seeks to strengthen families and individuals. Our desire is to empower them to move beyond the crisis to financial stability, self-sustenance, emotional health and personal and spiritual strength and growth.
Assistance is available mainly in areas of food, housing, transportation and utilities. The following is a fuller listing of services:
- Food Shelf
- Affordable Housing Assistance
- Transportation Assistance
- Utility Assistance
- CES Meals On Wheels
- Work With Dignity (WWD)
- Resume Help (WWD Service)
- Job Search Services (WWD Service)
- Somali Community Food Assistance
- Child Care Startups (Kid’s Care)
- Twin City Voice Mail Services
- Legal Services (Experimental free legal counsel)
- Referral Assistance
- Advocacy for Clients
- Listening & Caring Ministry
- Housing Search Services
- Joshua Family Housing Program (Transitional Housing)
- Fare For All (Self-help food program)
- Families in Transition (Includes referral to Twin City Rise)
- Simply Good Eating (Somali nutrition and food preparation class, experimental phase)
- CES Bible Fellowship (Costs covered by a church congregation)
- Resource Recovery Center (RRC) Bible Study (Trial outreach ministry, costs covered by a congregation)
- Automobile Donations (Limited donation through CES to low income persons/families for work; in experimental phase)
- Overflow Site for Homeless Women
- Urban Softball Series (Costs covered from designated gifts)