Housing

First Step Home continues to make headway in its mission of providing quality residential, campus, and sober housing opportunities for the women it serves. In May of 2019, First Step Home opened the apartment complex at 2160 Fulton Avenue to 23 women and their children. The complex provides Permanent Supportive Housing for women who have successfully completed a treatment program like the one at First Step Home. The apartments are renovated studio and one-bedroom living quarters funded by the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA). There, women can establish a rent history, rebuild their credit scores, and live on their own, while still being right across the street from treatment services.

Within the past five years, First Step Home has opened the Terry Schoenling Home for Mothers and Infants at 2207 Fulton. There, women who have just given birth stay in a beautifully renovated bedroom with their infant, so the two can bond.

After so many years working with clients, First Step Home has come to understand the positive impact of supporting not just women and children, but families, and wanted to be able to do so within its facilities. As a result, the agency has renovated one of its current houses into the Family Unity Center. The Center is located at 2215 Fulton and is expected to open in the fall of 2022.