A Chance to Rebuild Life
CL offers supportive housing, daily meals, life skills training, and community connections to facilitate our residents’ recovery from homelessness.
Because all things can be made new
(2 Cor. 5:17)
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.
Click here to watch the collection of vídeo testimonials:
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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Support Our Mission
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!
Homes
1
Beds
8
Employment Sites
3
Other Links
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.
- +1 (740) 913-3458
- markandali@clbrazil.com
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c/o The Church at 1548 Heights
1548 Heights Blvd, Houston, TX 77008