Family Services

Homelessness is especially traumatic for children. LifeMoves provides holistic support for families in crisis through family shelters, childcare, education programs, and therapeutic services.

Every child deserves a home where they can learn, play, and thrive. You can help.

Residential services

LifeMoves Residential Services Programs provide interim shelter along with food, clothing, household necessities, case management, and supportive services to help homeless families rapidly return to stable housing.

LifeMoves | First Step For Families

LifeMoves | First Step For Families provides interim shelter and services for homeless families serving up to 117 individuals per night with 39 family units.

Location:

San Mateo, CA 94401
Tel: 650-340-8814

Donation Drop-off Hours:

Our shelters are not currently accepting in-person donations.

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LifeMoves | Redwood Family House

LifeMoves | Redwood Family House provides interim shelter and services for homeless families serving up to 30 individuals per night with 10 family units.

Location:

Redwood City, CA 94061
Tel: 650-364-8264

Donation Drop-off Hours:

Our shelters are not currently accepting in-person donations.

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LifeMoves | Haven Family House

LifeMoves | Haven Family House provides interim shelter and services for homeless families serving up to 91 individuals per night with 23 family units. 9 of these units are reserved for Veteran clients.

Location:

Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: (650) 325-8719

Donation Drop-off Hours:

Our shelters are not currently accepting in-person donations.

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LifeMoves | Georgia Travis House

LifeMoves | Georgia Travis House provides interim shelter and services for homeless families and single adult women. Georgia Travis House serves up 51 individuals every night with 12 family units and 15 single units.

Location:

San Jose, CA 95112
Tel: (408) 271-1630

Georgia Travis House does not accept in-person donations.
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LifeMoves | Villa

LifeMoves | Villa provides interim shelter and services for homeless families and single women. Villa serves up to 63 individuals per night with 15 family units and 18 single units. 5 of the family units are reserved for Veteran families.

Location:

San Jose, CA 95112
Tel: 408-271-0685

Donation Drop-off Hours:

Our shelters are not currently accepting in-person donations.

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LifeMoves | Family Crossroads

LifeMoves | Family Crossroads provides interim shelter and services for homeless families serving up to 45 individuals per night with 15 family units.

Location:
Daly City, CA 94014
Phone: (650) 994­-8169
Donation Drop-off Hours:

Our shelters are not currently accepting in-person donations.

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LifeMoves Mountain View

LifeMoves Mountain View is an interim housing community that offers a private unit for each household – whether a family, a couple, a single adult experiencing homelessness – while providing intensive case management and support services designed to return people to stability.

Location:

Mountain View, CA 94043

Donation Drop-off Hours:

Our shelters are not currently accepting in-person donations.

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Supportive sERVICES

LifeMoves Supportive Services Programs aim to remove any barriers that a family may face in their efforts to return to self-sufficiency. Supportive Services Programs include Educational, Behavioral, Career, and Therapeutic support.

Housing and Employment

To ensure the long-term success of our clients, LifeMoves has a variety of programs to assist heads of households in their search for employment and self-sustained housing. A dedicated team of housing specialists, employment specialists, and benefit specialists on-staff support our clients in their diligent efforts to return to self-sufficiency.

LifeMoves employment programs include:

  • Career skills development
  • Resume workshops
  • Job search support

LifeMoves housing services include:

  • Rapid Re-Housing programs
  • Assistance locating affordable housing
  • Housing benefits and rental applications

Behavioral Health Program

LifeMoves clients are often exposed to significant trauma as a result of experiencing homelessness, especially during formational childhood years. LifeMoves provides clinical psychological services to help our clients build a foundation of mental health that is needed to return to self-sufficiency.

The LifeMoves Behavioral Health Program provides comprehensive, integrated therapeutic services and support from a Trauma-Focused, Mindfulness-Based orientation. The program is designed to foster mental and emotional wellness, enhance interpersonal capacity, improve decision-making processes, and build the ability to engage in positive behaviors that increase beneficial outcomes.

The Behavioral Health program is offered to children, teens, families, Veterans, adults, and seniors at LifeMoves shelter sites in individual and group therapy sessions from doctoral-level psychology graduate students who are supervised by licensed clinical psychologists.

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Summer Adventure Camp

The LifeMoves Summer Adventure Camp is a 7 week on-site camp for children experiencing homelessness at LifeMoves family shelters. Stemming from our year-round educational programming which aims to engage children in fun science, technology, engineering, and math activities. The Summer Camp also incorporates weekly field trips to parks, museums, and sporting events across Silicon Valley and the Peninsula.

The summer ends with a Math Festival and Field Day event, complete with face painting, educational games, a photo booth, and a bounce house. The camp is staffed by volunteer high school students, who serve as Camp Counselors, and college interns, who serve as Camp Program Leads. All interns and volunteers are supervised by LifeMoves employees.

2020 Summer Camp Dates will be released in Spring of 2020.

See excerpts of our 2019 Summer Adventure Camp blog here: www.lifemovessummercamp.home.blog

Summer Adventure Camp is only made possible by private donations from the community. $500 will cover the full cost for one child to attend this camp for 7 weeks. Please consider sponsoring the cost of a child (or children) to attend the LifeMoves Summer Adventure Camp.

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Education & Workshops

LifeMoves education programs and workshops help our clients improve their overall life skills and holistic well-being. Education programs are offered to all clients and are tailored to the specific client population at each site.

Children’s Education:

All family shelters staff Children’s Services Coordinators who assist with childcare, connecting children to appropriate services, and coordinate educational programs. Children receive access to tutoring, STEM-based educational workshops, and more.

Health & Wellness Workshops:

Workshops are offered to all LifeMoves clients to improve overall healthy behaviors. Workshops focus on a wide range of topics including nutrition, life skills, anger management, smoking cessation, and more.

Financial Literacy Programs:

Financial literacy programs are crucial to the short and long-term success of our clients. Educating clients on the importance of saving money, budgeting, and overall improved financial management helps achieve short-term goals of paying off debt and saving money to return to housing, and long-term goals of remaining stable by better managing finances.

CONNECT

CONNECT is a tech-based service that allows clients who have successfully exited a LifeMoves shelter to continue engaging in remote case management. CONNECT offers long-term support, ensuring ongoing success once clients graduate from our shelter programs.

The program provides weekly inspirational text messages to uplift and motivate clients, as well as monthly text/email surveys to ensure their well-being and stability. CONNECT case managers provide assistance and services as needed based on clients’ responses to survey questions.

Clients are enrolled for 12 months and have the option to remain enrolled after the initial 12-month period, or can leave the program at any time.

community engagement sERVICES

As the homelessness crisis continues to grow and evolve, so do our clients. In order to best support this fluid landscape, LifeMoves has implemented a variety of programs to serve our clients wherever they are as well as prevention programs for at-risk children.

Supportive Parking for RVs (San Jose)

LifeMoves Supportive Parking for RVs program provides a secure environment for single individuals or couples living in recreational vehicles in San Jose. LifeMoves provides on-site program support including security, community outreach, case management, and supportive services with the goal of connecting clients to stable housing.

Due to limited capacity, participants must obtain a referral to be enrolled in the program. All vehicles must have updated registration and be insured. Individuals and couples interested in the program can email sanjoservsafeparking@lifemoves.org.

 

Families or individuals with non-recreational vehicles, looking for supportive parking or shelter, you can contact 211 or the Here4You Hotline (408-385-2400).

Motel Voucher Program

The LifeMoves Motel Voucher Program provides a stable, safe environment for families, individuals, and couples with high-risk factors of COVID-19.

Clients participating in the Motel Voucher Program receive case management and other supportive services to help them return to stable housing.

Upstream

The LifeMoves Upstream program is a prevention program, born out of a partnership between LifeMoves and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI).

Upstream seeks to identify at-risk families with children in order to prevent them from ever experiencing the trauma of homelessness. Upstream is currently being piloted in two elementary schools in San Mateo County and has already successfully diverted multiple families from homelessness.

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