The

Transitional Living

Center for

Women

. . . Mending the Breaks Caused by Homelessness

What started out 20 years ago as a small outpatient substance abuse center, has turned into one of the largest treatment centers in the state of Michigan.

Today, West Michigan Therapy serves over 400 people per month, holds over 60 groups per month and runs a 14 bed homeless shelter for substance abusing women--the only long-term homeless shelter with licensed substance abuse treatment in Muskegon County.

The Transitional Living Center is a homeless shelter for women with substance abuse problems, family reunification issues and employment needs.  TLC provides each program participant 180 shelter nights, daily treatment and case management, family programming, and aftercare!  The stories are real and unimaginable and the successes are real and motivational.  The goals of the program are:

  1. Learn the steps of sobriety
  2. Reunite with family members including their children and help build support systems
  3. Obtain gainful employment
  4. Obtain safe and adequate housing

Your donation will support those goals.

 
The issues associated with homelessness have devastating effects on individuals and their families and that devastation effects out community. Ninety-five percent of out clients started drinking or using substances daily by the age of 13.  Ninety percent of our ladies have been sexually abused for more than once in their life--some of them don't even know that the abuse wasn't normal because it was a part of their everyday life.  Eighty-five percent have children waiting for them to be their mother.

This program reunites families, assists people in becoming productive members of society and helps to begin mending their lives.

These are the woman that you and I see on the street every day.  Their children may go to your child's school.  These ladies come from all walks of life and all areas of Muskegon County--from North Muskegon to Muskegon Heights--these are the women and families that need our support.

By helping someone less fortunate than yourself, we truly believe that you will be blessed in return.