Our Services
Temporary Housing
We provide a safe place to stay for guests who may be experiencing addiction and/or mental health challenges. At Motels4Now, guests share a double-occupancy room with a bathroom. The New Day Intake Center will retain this model of double rooms with shared bathroom facilities.
National studies show that our housing-first approach is the most successful way to end chronic homelessness in our communities. With the security of a locking door, safe storage for belongings, hygiene facilities, and a fixed address, our guests can regain enough stability to seek longer-term solutions.
Food
Food insecurity is one of the most difficult challenges unhoused people face; they often dedicate their entire mental and physical energy for the day to searching for their next meals.
At Motels4Now, in partnership with Hope Ministries, we serve ~200 meals per day for our guests (lunch and dinner). We also provide snacks, breakfast items, coffee, and pantry items from the Food Bank of Northern Indiana and Cultivate Food Rescue.
New Day Intake Center will have a dedicated commercial kitchen so that we can provide guests three healthy meals a day. Our new site will also be in walkable proximity to several grocery stores so that guests may shop for their own food if desired.
Medical Support
Homelessness often both stems from and creates major health challenges. Some people cannot work because of illness (whether mental or physical), which can lead to homelessness. But being unhoused for any reason can contribute to a range of health issues due to exposure to the elements as well as lack of good nutrition and hygeine options. Critically, unhoused people often don’t have the stability to create ongoing relationships with health providers, or the means to consistently acquire and take medications.
Motels4Now has several partnerships which enable guests to address medical needs, sometimes for the first time in decades.
Oaklawn recovery coaches work on-site and partner with guests to establish relationships with mental health and addiction recovery service providers.
We offer rides to medical appointments and assistance picking up and dispensing prescriptions for some guests.
Medical residents from Memorial Hospital visit the site for a street medicine clinic twice a month and are able to refer guests to followup appointments with primary care providers and specialists.
Permanent Housing
Our Housing Team works diligently to secure documents and partners with guests to prepare for their transition to longer term, sustainable housing options.
Our goal is to help every guest transition to permanent housing. Many of our guests find their own next steps, whether that is renting an apartment, reuniting with family, or moving to inpatient rehab. For hundreds of others, our Housing Team works to:
Secure identity documents, rental histories, etc.
Guide qualified guests through applications for financial support programs such as vouchers, social security, veterans’ benefits, etc.
Support qualified guests’ applications for permanent supportive housing or senior housing
Partner with landlords around South Bend to find suitable apartments for our guests in transition
Accompany guests through the process of signing a lease, the move-in process, and following up
Provide essential furniture and housewares
Accompany guests through the first months of housing by visiting them and assisting as needed ranging from landlord and neighbor relations to utility payments, just to name a few