Shelter Is the First Step, Not the Whole Story
Freedom House is a family shelter — and more than that. Families stay together, receive practical support, and move toward housing stability in a dignifying environment.
Providing Shelter and Supportive Services When Families Need It Most
More than 100 families in Brown County are experiencing homelessness on any given day. For most, it wasn’t one catastrophe. It was rent that climbed faster than a paycheck, a car that stopped working, hours that got cut, a health crisis, a relationship that stopped being safe. One unexpected life event, and circumstances become overwhelming.
A safe place to stay is the first need. It isn’t the whole need. Families also need time, practical support, and a realistic path to housing they can hold onto.
Parents and children stay under one roof at Freedom House in a dignifying, faith-based environment. That matters more than it sounds. Kids keep their routines. Parents stay the parent. And the family faces the next few months as a unit instead of scattered across the county.
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Freedom House builds the structure around families doing the hard work.
Families are overcoming obstacles — the appointments, employment and housing applications, and the important decisions to move forward. Freedom House builds sustainable services and resources around parents and children.
Families meet regularly with a Success Coach and set goals for the future. The plan is theirs and the Success Coach helps move it forward.
Support for mental health, family dynamics, and the ordinary logistics of school, work, transportation and routine while living somewhere temporary.
Employment support, financial coaching, and help with the things that quietly block progress — childcare, transportation, work clothes, a phone that works.
Housing navigation: applications, landlord relationships, tenant responsibilities, deposits, and the paperwork that turns a listing into a home.
We’re Always Here to Help
Call 920-432-4646. We’ll ask a few questions about your family and share what we can do. If we’re full, we’ll point you toward other options in Brown County. There’s no cost, and you don’t need to be part of any church to stay here.
Families do the work. A community helps open doors.
In this challenging world, families are grappling with homelessness and an affordable housing crisis. Success Coaching, housing navigation, financial literacy, and stability requires community support.
Your generosity keeps success coaching and housing navigation available, and removes barriers that stall a family's progress.
Volunteers help create the environment families actually experience. Meal teams, service groups, and ongoing roles.
Freedom House welcomes basic needs supplies that honor dignity and build lasting stability.
What That Added up to in 2025
families stayed together while working through coaching, career employment, and housing searches.
of families served last year moved into stable housing, nearly double the national average.
individuals served — 63% of them children — had support, a routine, and a community around them.
meals served, many of them cooked by volunteer meal teams from churches and businesses across Green Bay.
Disrupting the Cycle of Homelessness
One family at a time, staying together, doing the work, and moving toward housing they can keep. That takes coaching, housing navigation, practical support, and a community that decides families matter.