Gateway Homeless Services

Gateway Homeless Services is the largest and most comprehensive emergency shelter in Missouri. It encompasses the original organization that began in 1975 as the Christian Service Center, founded by Robert Nelson, and now also includes the Someone Cares Mission.

Gateway Homeless Services provides 110 emergency shelter beds and three home-cooked meals daily to homeless people who are residents in our facility. In addition, over 100 lunches are given to low income and non-resident homeless persons each day through Operation Brown Bag. Food support and groceries are delivered to families in need each week.

Gateway Homeless Services also provides support to homeless women and children and at-risk families with programs such as:

• A family emergency shelter that operates on a 24-hour basis for single women and families, and places more than 50 of them in permanent housing each year.
• Adult educational services including classes related to computers, sewing, nutrition and fitness, budgeting, hygiene, cooking, and basic life skills.
• Youth tutoring, child-care, computer literacy, and a Montessori program for literacy and education that has a long-term goal of ending generational homelessness.

Food distribution is directed to those in the shelter, those placed in permanent housing, senior citizens and working poor. Gateway also directs an annual collection of personal hygiene items and a collection of school supplies for homeless and at-risk children.

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