Renewal Place

The Purdue Center of Hope

Renewal Place is a transitional housing program for chemically addicted homeless women and their children. Located at The Purdue Center of Hope, the Renewal Place program is a collaborative effort between The Salvation Army, and the Cocaine & Alcohol Awareness Program, Inc. (CAAP).

Renewal Place is the only transitional program in Memphis that allows children to stay with their mother while she undergoes treatment for chemical addiction. This non-traditional approach seeks to preserve the family unit while the entire family recovers from the affects of substance abuse. Case management services track the families for one year post-graduation to help ensure service plans are being followed.

Renewal Place goals are to:

• Provide intensive case management for mothers and their children
• Provide access to alcohol and drug treatment, childcare and children's services, and healthcare
• Make available the opportunity to obtain and maintain affordable housing
• Make available job and life-skills training and educational pursuits to increase education, skills and/or income
• Help mothers achieve greater self-determination through continued sobriety, better parenting skills, anger management skills and financial literacy.

Renewal Place has a nightly capacity of 45 women and children.

2009 STATISTICS/SUCCESSES:

• 65 women and children served
• 26 families
• 27% (7) of the families graduated the two-year program
• All are active in the 12-step program
• 1% received the GED
• 100% (7) of the graduated families obtained permanent housing
• 43% of the (7) graduated families obtained gainful employment

To learn more about Renewal Place or to enroll, please contact Sharon Cash, Shelter Director, at 901-260-9132.