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Care Corps Family Services and Low Income Ministry entered into a strategic partnership to legally become Care Corps, Inc., effective August 1, 2018. The partnership offers services under Care Corps’ LifeHouse.
For forty five years, Low Income Ministry had been helping families in the Fremont and Dodge County area through the pantry, thrift store, and rent/utilities assistance programs. Low Income Ministry worked closely with area churches, organizations, and agencies, this collaboration helped over 500 households, annually, meet the basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter.
Care Corps Family Services began as a homeless shelter in 1996. While they continued to run an emergency shelter, they added transitional housing, permanent housing, rapid rehousing, case management and prevention from homelessness services. These services touch over 1000 individuals each year.
The work Care Corps had done to provide support and services to the homeless and near homeless was running parallel to the work Low Income Ministry was doing to assist families who were at or below the poverty line. Therefore, it was a natural transition for both staff and clients as we began our journey as one organization. With this partnership, we have the unique capabilities to offer more broad and continual services. In doing so, we can assure more sustainable results for the future of the people we serve.
With the support of our community, we look forward to working together and collaborating with the other agencies in Fremont and Dodge County to help prevent poverty and homelessness. The work we all do together can lead our growing population into a sustainable future.
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More than 20 years ago, a group of visionary community leaders in Fremont, Nebraska came together and made a commitment to find shelter for Dodge County’s rising homeless population. After purchasing an existing property in downtown Fremont—a motel that had been abandoned for more than ten years—these civic leaders engaged several community groups to restore and ready the shelter to the best of their ability. In 1996, Care Corps, Inc. opened its emergency shelter doors and since then, the nonprofit has continued to grow. Ten years later, in December 2006, the dilapidated motel-turned-charity was demolished. Hundreds of generous community donors had made it possible for Care Corps to rebuild on the same site—and on additional space, an adjacent parcel of land—more than doubling the capacity.
Housed in this facility today, Care Corps LifeHouse operates housing programs and services, including a 24-hour a day 60-bed emergency shelter, providing a safe and secure environment for those in need. In 2014, the board strategically modified Care Corps’ mission statement to include “near homeless,” which more accurately reflected the “at risk homeless” population that was also highly being served via case management, therapy, Life Skills programming and more. At the same time, “community collaborations” was added to the mission statement to describe the true efforts Care Corps was making—to work as a united force in order to best meet the needs of those living in extreme poverty. These changes came after “rebranding” the Care Corps name from Care Corps Homeless Shelter (or Homeless Services) to Care Corps Family Services.
Low Income Ministry started in 1972 by church ladies who asked for gifts of clothing to help meet some community family’s needs. In 1983 the food pantry was added. A location was set up in one of the church basements for families to come to for help.
As the years went by the churches asked to have the ministry move to other locations. Empty store fronts and warehouses were leased to handle the greater volume of clothing. Around 1993 a permanent building was purchased in downtown Fremont. It had been a horse livery stable with a hayloft and later a car dealership. Remodeling took place with further building additions, this building came to house an office area, a clothing center, a clothing receiving area, a large sized food pantry, a garage for a truck, plus storage for seasonal clothing and large quantities of foods.
The Food Pantry provided access to nutritious food to low income families. It also had provided budgeting assistance, benefits assistance, community response, central navigation, employability assistance, case management, basic needs assistance, school supplies, box fans, and clothing, housewares, and hygiene items to those in need.
402-721-3125 (Phone)
402-721-6246 (Fax)
Emergency Shelter, Prevention Services, and Supportive Housing Program
723 N. Broad Street
Fremont, NE 68025
Food Pantry
549 North H Street
Fremont, NE 68025
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