Help Homeless Women & Children Be Amazing Together

Lodi House was founded in 1999. It is a small home-like shelter with a program uniquely designed to help women and children achieve long-term stability in family life, finances, employment and housing.

The unsheltered women and children who come to Lodi House typically need much more than food and roof over their head. In fact, statistically speaking:

• 92% of homeless women have experienced severe physical or sexual assault in their lifetime.
• 63% of homeless mothers have been violently abused by an intimate male partner. 27% required medical treatment.
• 44% lived outside their homes at some point during their childhood. Of these women, 20% were placed in foster care.
• 36% have experienced Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a rate three times higher than other women.
• 66% of homeless women were violently abused by a childhood caretaker or other adult in their household before reaching age 18.
• 43% of homeless women were sexually molested as children.

These traumas create challenging relationship barriers that keep women from gaining long term stability for themselves and their children. However, studies have found that these life altering traumas can be healed through building trusting relationships with safe people.

That is why Lodi House is committed to providing healthy relationships, accountability and resources to those who come to us for help. Guests may stay between 2-6 months in order to reach their goals of employment, saving money and securing permanent housing. Staff works individually with each guest to develop consistent family routines, healthy support systems and opportunities for personal growth through classes and therapy. In addition, Lodi House offers ongoing money management, therapy, relational support, workshops and a network of community resources to all Lodi House alumni. A limited number of transitional housing apartments are available to alumni, allowing them to have continued support and affordable housing for an additional year.

Lodi House is not just about helping in the short term. Our goal is to walk with each mother and child throughout their lifetime and provide the type of support and caring network found in healthy families.