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What it looks like to land here, and to rebuild from here.

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Emergency · 72 hours

Emergency Beds — Olif's Place

Olif's Place is a 72-hour bridge bed for adults arriving in immediate crisis — from abuse, trafficking, self-harm, substance use, or homelessness. The conditions that got you turned away elsewhere are not conditions here. All genders. LGBTQ+ welcome. All medications accepted.

The first three days are simple by design. A bed. A meal. A conversation with someone who has been on the other side of this phone call. Breathing room before any decision about what comes next.

If this sounds like what you need, call 623-986-3169.

Three months to two years to rebuild.

— South Mesa Drive house

Long-Term Safe House

The South Mesa Drive house is a residential placement from three months up to two-plus years. Residents keep their own room, their own pace, and their own micro-kitchen. The work happens alongside the living — savings, court, custody, paperwork, sleep — at a pace that actually holds.

Peer-survivor advocates are in the house. Curfew exists only in the form of a phone call: tell us where you are, and we'll be here when you get back.

If this sounds like what you need, call 623-986-3169.

Day-to-day work

Life Skills

  1. Budgeting and banking

    Opening an account in your own name, reading a paycheck, building a small monthly plan that survives a hard week.

  2. Job-readiness and interviews

    Resumes, applications, and the practical rehearsal of interviews — including how to talk about a gap on your terms.

  3. Housing applications and tenancy

    What landlords ask, what to bring, and how to keep a lease once you have one.

  4. Appointments and follow-through

    Calendars, reminders, transportation, and the small systems that make every other piece work.

Certified DV/SA advocacy

Advocacy

An advocate sits next to you in court, helps with protective-order paperwork, and translates the systems that don't translate themselves — police, prosecutors, benefits, housing.

The advocates here are certified in domestic and sexual violence response and in general crime-victim advocacy. Many of them lived a version of this first. You will not be the only person in the room who has been here.

If this sounds like what you need, call 623-986-3169.

Outside services

Resource Navigation

Healthcare
Legal
Benefits
Recovery

Most of what residents need exists somewhere outside the house — at a clinic, a courthouse, a benefits office, a recovery program. The work here is helping you thread those systems instead of facing them alone, and staying in the loop until each thread is held.

Food rescue means meals for residents and surplus shared with neighbors — a steady weekly delivery that feeds the house and the block around it. In partnership with Waste Not · Midwest Food Bank · Panera Bread

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