Neighborhood Alliance serving our neighbors in need

Neighborhood Alliance has been compassionately caring for the community since 1927. We are helping our community grow stronger by caring for our clients’ most basic needs. We provide emergency shelter, daily meal delivery, nutrition services and socialization activities for seniors, childcare and child enrichment programs, and access to wellness programs such as Help Me Grow for those in need. We are empowering the people of our community with the tools to create a better life for themselves. With our inspired mission of strengthening neighborhoods, we continue to expand programs and services to address the diverse and changing needs of families and individuals in Northeast Ohio. OUR IMPACT

We’re unique because we fit inside of neighborhoods to serve our neighbors in need. Ninety seven percent of the population that we serve lives in poverty. By design, we deliver our signatures services such as child enrichment, senior enrichment, family support, and emergency and shelter within walking distance of those in greatest need.

Whether it’s a hot meal or building a wheelchair ramp for a senior citizen, an overnight stay in a safe shelter for a mother, father and their children, or rent assistance for a family struggling with layoffs or unemployment issues, Neighborhood Alliance touches the lives of thousands every year.

We bring a collaborative approach to serving our community and work in tandem with other like mission organizations to deliver services whenever possible to ultimately enhance comprehensive services to residents.

OUR PROGRAMS

Neighborhood Alliance offers comprehensive services to meet the basic needs of individuals at every stage of their lives. We are as diverse in programming as we are in the clients that we serve.

Child Enrichment Services offers childcare for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and for school-age children before and after school. We also offer a summer program for first graders through age 12.

Senior Enrichment Services provide hot homedelivered meals and activities for seniors to stay engaged and remain social. We also offer a summer home repair program for seniors to remain safe in their homes.

Family Support Services facilitate in-home parenting education and support, program referral and developmental screenings for families with children up to three years old.

Shelter and Emergency Services serves as Lorain County’s only 24-hour/7 days a week family homeless shelter. Additional programming and services are provided to address the varied needs of the residents.

BY THE NUMBERS

In the last seventeen years, Neighborhood Alliance has been able to serve:

• 1,859,062 meals prepared and delivered to 9057 Lorain County nutritionally-at-risk and disabled seniors.

• 8,928 men, women and children with 286,493 shelter nights provided in Lorain County’s only 24/7 extended stay 68- bed homeless shelter.

• 4,550 children with almost 356,000 days of child enrichment programming and after-school services.

• 7,730 children with parent education programming, support and developmental services for prenatal to three year olds.

• 10,089 seniors with nearly 146,000 opportunities for seniors to remain socially active and engaged in their community.