Below are 5 shelters for homeless in Winnebago, IL County.

Mission Statement-Rockford Rescue Mission shares hope and help in Jesus' name to move people from homelessness and despair toward personal and spiritual wholeness

The Life Recovery Program is a residential program offering comprehensive help and hope for men, women and children in desperate circumstances, such as chemical dependency, domestic violence issues, or destructive relationships. Our curriculum offers Bible classes, recovery and relapse prevention training, general life skills application, mentoring, physical fitness and cultural recreation. Our goal is to enable men and women to establish healthy relationships and to develop Godly choices that will benefit their lives and those around them. This long-term program (9-12 months) provides the support necessary for recovery, restoration, and empowerment to sustain a healthy and whole outlook for the future.

The Life Recovery Program is a residential program offering comprehensive help and hope for men, women and children in desperate circumstances, such as chemical dependency, domestic violence issues, or destructive relationships. Our curriculum offers Bible classes, recovery and relapse prevention training, general life skills application, mentoring, physical fitness and cultural recreation. Our goal is to enable men and women to establish healthy relationships and to develop Godly choices that will benefit their lives and those around them. This long-term program (9-12 months) provides the support necessary for recovery, restoration, and empowerment to sustain a healthy and whole outlook for the future.

Provide Shelter: Terms like emergency shelter and transitional housing are common among the programs providing housing services to individuals and families who are homeless. This type of housing is time limited and though it will provide respite, often there is not enough support and intervention to end a family’s poverty. This falling back into the cycle of homelessness reflects limits on programs, not a failure of the family or individual. The ladder out of chronic poverty and persistent homelessness requires achieving and strengthening one level before moving successfully to the next. Shelter Care Ministries is committed to self reflection and evaluation of our programs in our commitment to recognizing the extraordinary and complex needs of families, as well as developing a process for moving towards health and wholeness.

The Transitional Living Program provides case management and life skills education to young families while the live independently in apartments throughout the community. The program assists with budgeting, household management, vocational and educational pursuits and parenting skills. MELD has a total of 22 apartments in the community for young parents between 18-21 years of age.