Everybody needs a little help sometimes..
ALMOST HOME
Almost Home Chicago’s aspiration is to be the hands, feet, and voice of hope by providing food, clothing, job assistance, and love to those who need it most.
OUR MISSION
Our organization is aimed at helping those populations often forgotten by our society.
We serve the homeless, food-insecure, and addicted members of our community by providing access to survival items, food, mental health services, harm reduction, mentoring, and a community where they are valued, acknowledged, and supported.
OUR IMPACT
Our impact grows even while our team sleeps! We serve food-insecure individuals 24/7/365. For so many of our friends on the street, our services are intangible. Our unsheltered friends are offered, fellowship and support no matter the day of the week.
2022 Highlights
We provided direct assistance 3,372 times to more than 300 community members in need.
Through our Loaves and Fishes Closet program we have provided thousands of personal essential items across 5 locations. In 2022 alone more than $40,000 worth of donated items had been distributed.
To combat the Overdose Crisis happening in our community we have hosted multiple Narcan trainings, 83 people were trained to administer Narcan and we have had 4 successful Overdose Reversals.
For some friends their car serves as their shelter. We prioritize those friends’ car repairs, gasoline needs, and car payments to avoid repossession. In 2022 we were able to assist with $13,200 in vehicle expenses.
Living expenses are greater than the government aid allotted to most of our friends. We paid $6,000 in rent/mortgage aid, $6,095 in security deposit assistance, and $7,300 in disconnection-risk utilities.
Dangerously cold weather kills. $16,500 was used to pay hotel expenses to keep our houseless friends out of the deadly elements.
Common barriers to treatment are immediate transportation, rent at sober living, and moral support. We covered $486 in rides to treatment, $1,000 in weekly rent at sober living, and $4,000 worth of personal essential items
Almost Home Chicago, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 81-1096932
ALMOST HOME MINISTRIES
Almost Home’s service area includes, Alsip, Bridgeview, Burbank, Chicago Ridge, Evergreen Park, Hometown, Mount Greenwood, Palos, Oak Lawn, and Worth.
We offer a variety of programs we feel address the struggles of our friends and families in our neighborhoods.
GET INVOLVED
We are often asked, “How can I help?” We’ve compiled a few ways you can get involved with Almost Home and support our mission of bringing help to those who need it.
sign up to fill a blessings box
Emergency food supply is made available through stand alone mini food-pantries. We keep these boxes stocked with non-perishables that require constant monitoring to ensure each are stocked; and stocked appropriately.
You can email Jamie Viravec for more info AlmostHomeChicago2015@gmail.com
Volunteer opportunities
Follow us on our Facebook Page @AlmostHomeChicago. Whenever we are planning an event, we put out a call for volunteers!
You can also email to get added to a Volunteer Communication list AlmostHomeChicago2015@gmail.com