Our mission: Passage Home is a faith-based, ecumenical, interracial Community Development Corporation designed to end homelessness, increase affordable housing, enable economic self-sufficiency, and promote community development. This ministry strengthens families to become self-sufficient and neighborhoods to become more supportive in Raleigh and Wake County.
People served and programs include:
- Homeless families seeking to stabilize their lives, whose adult heads of household agree to work.
- Women leaving the prison system who wish to reunite with their children.
- Neighborhood development - restoring housing, community problem solving, economic literacy and social programs.
- Providing for family needs during special holiday times through the Advent Giving Tree. Contact Peg Cavender at 985-5950 if you would like to assist.
Restoring Hope adopts a house or apartment to make a comfortable home for women coming out of prison or a family transitioning from homelessness. Our team of volunteers provides light maintenance repair as well as redecorating. Furniture and other household items are solicited through donations. We stock the kitchen with a week’s worth of groceries. When the family moves in, the program concludes with the St. Francis team and family enjoying a meal of celebration, thanksgiving, and fellowship.
St. Francis adopted our first house in September 2007. It was commissioned that October as the Magdala House and serves as a safe and comfortable home for four women coming out of prison. Our second home, St. Margaret of Cortona adopted in July 2008, is an apartment where a family who was previously homeless can live in a secure and private environment. For more information or if you would like to join this team, contact Donna Mariani at 326-3768.
