Support Groups & Shelter

Support groups & shelter services throughout our programs are intented to create safe spaces for individuals and families facing challenges. 

Ensuring Basic Needs

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory that describes the five levels of human need that motivate people.  It prioitizes human need saying that lower-level basic needs like food, water, and safety must be met first before higher needs can be fulfilled. 

1. Physical: The most basic needs, such as food, water, sleep, clothing, and shelter. 
2. Safety: Needs that arise after physiological needs are met, and include more than just physical safety.
3. Love and belonging: The need for social connections, such as friendships, family, and romantic relationships 
4. Esteem: The need for strength, respect, self-esteem, freedom, recognition from oneself and ours
5. Self-actualization: The desire to be come the most that one can be.

We believe Maslow (or basic needs) before everything. We hope by offering secure access to culturally relevant resources, safe spaces, and connection - in our shelters, support programs, and talking circles will help temporarily fulfill the most basic needs until they can acheive the healing need to have the independence to provide those things for themselves.