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Colette’s Children’s Home (CCH) has a 23 year history of providing homeless housing intervention programs along with supportive services to over 5,500 homeless women and children in Orange County. CCH began as a grassroots organization, founded in November 1998 by renting a two-bedroom apartment in the city of Huntington Beach, housing up to 6 homeless women and children each night. The agency now owns and operates 21 emergency, transitional, and permanent housing sites. As of January 2022, CCH has the capacity to serve over 400 homeless single women, homeless mothers and children, and low-income individuals at any given point in time. CCH provides emergency (up to 90 days), transitional (average of 5 months), and permanent affordable housing programs (not time constrained). Our shelters are 2-bedroom apartments that are shared by only two families. Each room houses one family (mom and children). In the case of single women, two women share a bedroom. Our clients have kitchens to prepare and cook meals for themselves and their children. Each client is given a key to their apartment. This makes our clients feel safe and helps them to feel like they truly have a home during their time in our program. The impact that we make is proven by each and every homeless woman and child that is sleeping in their own bed tonight instead of in their car, in a motel, on a couch, in an unsafe situation, or on the streets. Our shelters are located in the cities of Huntington Beach, Garden Grove, Fountain Valley, Anaheim and Placentia.
Our mission at CCH is to provide homeless single women and homeless mothers with children a safe and nurturing environment where they obtain the compassionate support and services needed to achieve self-sufficiency. We are directed by our guiding principles and core values. Our values are compassion for those in need, commitment to each other and those we serve, confidentiality to maintain anonymity and dignity, physical and emotional safety to protect our women and children, dedication to service, agency integrity, and program excellence. Our target population is homeless single women and homeless mothers with children. Our clients are those considered the hardest to serve and include criminal offenders, with a history of incarceration, who are on probation or parole, and are addicts, alcoholics, victims of domestic violence and human trafficking, attending drug court or family court, are unemployed, with low or no income, no transportation, and no support system. They have limited or no formal higher education with limited or no viable employment skills. They are homeless single female head of households who benefit from stable housing in a structured environment providing intensive intervention, direction, guidance, motivation, and accountability.