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A Chance to Rebuild Life

CL offers supportive housing, daily meals, life skills training, and community connections to facilitate our residents’ recovery from homelessness.

How It All Began….

Because all things can be made new

(2 Cor. 5:17)

Meet the Founders

Ali is a Brazilian-American hybrid who was raised a little here and a little there by her Brazilian-American parents, Antenor and Phyllis Gonçalves.

Mark is from Ohio, born and raised in Buckeye land, youngest of five in a home full of love and faith.

Our Story

CL House: our neighbors on the streets are worth it

Housing

Starting With A Home

Life on the streets cultivates addiction. To facilitate recovery for the unhoused, we opened the CL House to be a place where sober residents are welcomed in as partners who support one another and share the work of maintaining a peaceful, supportive home.

Support

Added Structure to Facilitate Success

House monitors provide daily accompaniment and our psychologist offers weekly sessions to all residents. We have a weekly in-house support group and provide transport to an optional Sunday morning church service. The love invested here makes our house a home.

Work

Cultivating Independence Through Work

CL Residents are received as partners, starting with a fifteen day volunteering/ professionalism training program on our farm. We then equip residents for their job hunt and accompany them into employment. Once employment is secured, we teach financial responsibility with a savings program to build independence; residents “pay rent” to themselves by saving an accumulative third of their income monthly.

What Does New Look Like?

Hear from a few of our residents about how they have experienced their time living at the CL house. Each experience is unique and different, and we are very proud of our residents for their insistence in finding a new path.
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Hear Their Stories

Beyond Housing

Caféla

Coffee With A Cause

“Caféla” is a mashup of three words - Coffee (café), Faith (fé), and Chapel (cappella). It is designed to be a place of good food that facilitates meaningful encounters and deep conversations.
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CL Farm

A Natural Place To Connect

We use connection to nature as a means of remembering what is good and essential within us, and the therapeutic work of the garden as practice towards a re-entry into a professional life.
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Learning Center

Education in support of recovery

Once housed, there are important competencies necessary for staying off the streets. We have developed classes to address these life-skills (finance, conflict resolution, setting goals, etc.)
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Ways You Can Give

Time, Resources, Prayer, Finances
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Housing

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Work

You Can Be A Part Of Our Story

We could never live out this mission alone. CL has grown as individuals have believed in our work and chosen to join in. We continue to welcome and to need continuing partnerships, be that through financial giving or in person for volunteer service. Please set up your tax deductible gift here, or write to us about however else you might like to partner with us!

Partner with Us
They are supporting me to be a father to my kids again, to be a citizen in this society, to re-enter the job market, to have responsibility at work; a time to come, a time to go. The welcome I receive here, I’ve never seen in my life- the love they have for us. In these last 15 dias, I understand I can’t do it alone. Alone… not a chance. But I have people I can count on.
JacksonCL Resident / 2025
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Homes
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Beds
8
Employment Sites
3

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Associação Crescimento Limpo is a registered Brazilian non-profit which works in partnership with its American counter-part CL, Changing Lives

CL, Changing Lives is a registered 501(c)(3) organization, eligible for tax-deductible giving.

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