Homeless & Housing Services
Across Kentucky, our broad menu of programs serve homeless families, women with disabilities and their children, and pregnant and parenting women by providing housing and intensive case management. Proven therapeutic techniques are used to help clients enhance life skills and achieve the goals of safe, affordable, permanent housing and self-sufficiency. Click on any program name for a fact sheet in PDF format
Collaborative Housing Program
Volunteers of America’s Collaborative Housing Initiative is an innovative partnership between many local agencies dedicated to helping chemically dependent, mentally ill or dually diagnosed individuals build stable housing and lives. A permanent housing project that includes both a housing subsidy and case management, the Collaborative Housing Initiative provides case management and financial assistance.
Call (502) 636-0816 for more information.
Eviction Prevention Program
Volunteers of America’s Eviction Prevention Program stabilizes resident families and individuals living in Louisville Metro Housing Authority Properties by preventing evictions through financial assistance, crisis intervention, mediation, and collaborations with other service providers.
Call (502) 568-1438 for more information.
Family Emergency Shelter
Since 1984, Volunteers of America’s Family Emergency Shelter has responded to the growing population of homeless families in Louisville, Kentucky. The program provides safe emergency shelter for families who become homeless due to a wide range of factors. The shelter's hallmark is a commitment to serving the whole family in one location. The program also provides individualized case management, housing placement, and other services to help families transition back to the community and become self-sufficient.
Call (502) 636-0816 for more information.
Family Housing Program
Volunteers of America’s Lexington Family Housing Program is a scattered-site, neighborhood-based transitional housing program for homeless and marginally-housed families. Through a partnership with the Lexington Housing Authority, the program provides housing vouchers for a 12-month lease while the family receives case management services that includes setting goals such as securing permanent housing, finding employment, enrolling in school, and taking care of children’s needs.
Call (859) 254-3469 ext: 234 or e-mail voahousing@voaky.org for more information.
Family Follow Up
Volunteers of America’s Family Follow-Up Program serves homeless families who are transitioning from homelessness into permanent housing. The Family Follow-Up Program (FUP) began in 1989 and provides six months of case management in the home to stabilize families and prevent their return to homelessness.
Call (502) 634-5584 for more information.
Family Transitional Housing
Volunteers of America’s Transitional Housing Program began in 1987. Recognizing the need to build a bridge between homelessness and permanent housing, the Transitional Housing Program offers families a place to live for up to two years after leaving the Volunteers of America of Kentucky's Family Emergency Shelter, as well as case management and housing placement services.
For more information, call (502) 634-5598 in Louisville, (502) 223-9821 in Frankfort, and (859) 254-3469 in Lexington or for Lexington e-mail voahousing@voaky.org.
Follow Up for Success
Since 1997, Volunteers of America’s Follow-Up for Success Program has served chemically dependent, mentally ill, or dually diagnosed individuals or families who meet the HUD definition of homeless. The program provides housing counseling as well as six months of case management in the home that includes goal setting and financial assistance for clients’ housing-related start-up expenses and work or training-related expenses that promote greater client self-sufficiency.
Call (502) 634-5500 for more information.
Healing Beds
Sponsored in partnership with Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Healthcare, Healing Beds helps homeless or low income individuals receiving services at our Family Emergency Shelter or Shelby Men's Center who are recovering from surgery or other medical treatment. Healing Beds offer a safe, supportive environment in which healing and recovery can occur.
Specialized Housing Services
Senior Housing: Volunteers of America provides permanent, safe, affordable housing for low-income seniors at two complexes in the Louisville area. Although residents live independently, community rooms, regular activities, and on-site staff provide opportunities for socialization and help facilitate a support network among residents.
For more information:
Spanish Cove: Call (502) 491-3610.
South Oaks: Call (502) 995-4497.
Housing for persons with mental illness: Volunteers of America provides housing for low-income persons with severe mental illness at our Woodgreen Apartments.
Call (502) 361-8859 for more information.
Permanent Supportive Housing
Volunteers of America’s Lexington Permanent Supportive Housing Program provides scattered-site housing for women with mental and physical disabilities who are homeless. With the goal of integration into the community, the program offers safe, affordable housing, access to community resources, and life skills training. Domestic violence survivors receive priority for admission into this program.
Call (859) 254-3469 ext: 234 or e-mail voahousing@voaky.org for more information.
Transitional Living Program
Volunteers of America’s Transitional Living Program in Frankfort provides supportive housing and case management services in a group home environment to homeless and runaway women ages 16-21 who are pregnant or parenting.
Call (502) 223-9821 for more information.
Traveler’s Aid Program
Volunteers of America Traveler’s Aid Program assists stranded individuals who are traveling with children, who are disabled, or over age 60. A charitable rate discount of service may be provided for other stranded clients. The program provides case management services, emergency financial assistance, and crisis intervention to families and individuals who have become stranded in the metro Louisville area and lack the resources and services to return to their home or a destination where they have support and housing.
Call (502) 540-2612 for more information.