why?

Our mission is to provide temporary shelter and equip residents for employability to resolve poverty and obtain housing.

Even after federal, state and local interventions to “end homelessness” were applied, nearly half (47%) of those served by the local homeless services system returned to the Brisben shelter (some multiple times) in every year from 2012 to 2020.
In 2019-2020, 88% of clients departed Thurman Brisben Center for impermanent or undetermined-duration housing.
On the January 20, 2021 Point-In-Time Count in our region, only 21 out of the 207 homeless people counted —10%—were categorized as chronic. Yet, in 2018, over 71% of the U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development homelessness budget of $2.17 billion was allocated to projects serving this relatively small but high-need population.

Homelessness Estimates

* HUD Exchange: CoC System Performance Measures Data Since FY 2015

Poverty Estimates

In, Out and Back Again

In every year from 2012 to 2020 – nearly half (47%) of those served by the local homeless services system returned to the Brisben shelter (some multiple times) – even after the federal, state and local interventions to “end homelessness” were applied.

259 individuals , 39 children, 33 families, 23 military veterans

$474,700 – Annual Avg. costs of re-sheltering.