Causes: Homeless & Housing, Homeless Shelters, Housing Search Assistance
Mission: COTS provides emergency shelter, services, and housing for people who are without homes or who are marginally housed. COTS advocates for long-term solutions to end homelessness. We believe: in the value and dignity of very human life; that housing is a fundamental human right; that emergency shelter is not the solution to homelessness.
Programs: The firehouse family shelter (opened in 1988) and main street family shelter (opened in 2002) provide safe and decent shelter for 15 families with children. These are the only family shelters in chittenden county. Families can stay for up to six months while they work with cots staff to find affordable housing, employment, child care, and health care services. The cots children's program works with children and parents in shelter to ensure success in school, promote children's healthy social, emotional and physical development, and strenghten family relationships. In 2014,78 families, including 127 children, stayed in cots' emergency shelters. Furthermore, 301 single adults were sheltered.
the waystation (opened in 1982) is a 36-bed overnight shelter for men and women, aged 18 and older. The daystation (opened in 1988) is a daytime shelter that offers refuge from the streets, where a noontime meal is served. These facilities are open 365 days a year. In 2014,181 individuals stayed in cots' overnight shelters, and 206 individuals, an average of 40 people per day, visited the daystation.
the housing resource center (hrc), cots' centralized one-stop community center is dedicated to homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing. The hrc offers assistance to prevent at-risk households from losing their existing housing due to unforeseen circumstances and to assist those who are without permanent shelter move into stable housing. The hrc offers grant, loan, and guarantee assistance with back rent and security deposits. In 2014, cots helped 204 households, including 179 children, experiencing financial crisis avert homelessness and stay in their housing. Cots helped 223 households move into housing by providing security deposit assistance.
other services such as individual and family case management, transitional and permanent housing.
Mission: COTS provides emergency shelter, services, and housing for people who are without homes or who are marginally housed. COTS advocates for long-term solutions to end homelessness. We believe: in the value and dignity of very human life; that housing is a fundamental human right; that emergency shelter is not the solution to homelessness.
Programs: The firehouse family shelter (opened in 1988) and main street family shelter (opened in 2002) provide safe and decent shelter for 15 families with children. These are the only family shelters in chittenden county. Families can stay for up to six months while they work with cots staff to find affordable housing, employment, child care, and health care services. The cots children's program works with children and parents in shelter to ensure success in school, promote children's healthy social, emotional and physical development, and strenghten family relationships. In 2014,78 families, including 127 children, stayed in cots' emergency shelters. Furthermore, 301 single adults were sheltered.
the waystation (opened in 1982) is a 36-bed overnight shelter for men and women, aged 18 and older. The daystation (opened in 1988) is a daytime shelter that offers refuge from the streets, where a noontime meal is served. These facilities are open 365 days a year. In 2014,181 individuals stayed in cots' overnight shelters, and 206 individuals, an average of 40 people per day, visited the daystation.
the housing resource center (hrc), cots' centralized one-stop community center is dedicated to homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing. The hrc offers assistance to prevent at-risk households from losing their existing housing due to unforeseen circumstances and to assist those who are without permanent shelter move into stable housing. The hrc offers grant, loan, and guarantee assistance with back rent and security deposits. In 2014, cots helped 204 households, including 179 children, experiencing financial crisis avert homelessness and stay in their housing. Cots helped 223 households move into housing by providing security deposit assistance.
other services such as individual and family case management, transitional and permanent housing.
PO Box 1616, Burlington, VT 05402
802-864-7402
Homeless & Housing
Burlington
