HAAT Force South Metro, founded in 2010, provides severe weather motel shelter for families and people with disabilities, medical issues or animals. Our guests include pregnant women and older adults experiencing homelessness.
This program operates from October through April.
During the 2022-2023 severe weather season, we provided 278 motel vouchers (compared with 153 last season.) This season we experienced significantly increased demand and relentlessly cold weather. We provided 1250 person-nights of shelter (for each voucher, the number of people in the room times the number of nights.)
The need was great! We helped 131 unique individuals: 64 men, 50 women and 17 children. We provided shelter to 10 unique families with children ranging in age from 18 months to 17 years old. Fifty-one of our guests had disabilities and/or medical conditions. Many of our guests, including families, were spending the nights in vehicles. Several were living outdoors, in tents or in unstable living situations. We sheltered 41 unique animals (36 dogs, 4 cats and even a turtle.)
HAAT Force partners with Arapahoe County Housing Navigators and other resources to help our guests with their immediate and long-term needs.
Click here for our end-of-season newsletter for 2022-2023 and a full story of our work.
Click here for our end-of-season newsletter for 2021-2022 and a full story of our work.
Click here for our end-of-season newsletter for 2020-2021 and a full story of our work.
Client Testimonial We received the following message from one of our severe weather motel voucher guests last season: "please accept my gratitude for the warm dry nights you and your organization have so graciously bestowed upon me...it was wonderful being able to shower when I wanted and use the bathroom when I needed and to charge my phone or leave things and not worry about them disappearing. You guys are giving so much more than shelter from the elements with these rooms...you're giving peace of mind and safety. It becomes exhausting being homeless...from the bottom of my heart thank you and God bless us all."
Our guests this season included a family with a single mother, two teenagers, an elderly grandmother, a dog and a cat. Despite the mother receiving TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), the grandmother receiving Social Security, and one of the teenagers working while going to high school, during the season they were having difficulty finding an affordable place to live. Another man had a wife who experienced a chronic disabling condition; he was having difficulty with employment because he had to take care of his wife full-time. Each guest had a unique set of circumstances and needs.
This program operates from October through April.
During the 2022-2023 severe weather season, we provided 278 motel vouchers (compared with 153 last season.) This season we experienced significantly increased demand and relentlessly cold weather. We provided 1250 person-nights of shelter (for each voucher, the number of people in the room times the number of nights.)
The need was great! We helped 131 unique individuals: 64 men, 50 women and 17 children. We provided shelter to 10 unique families with children ranging in age from 18 months to 17 years old. Fifty-one of our guests had disabilities and/or medical conditions. Many of our guests, including families, were spending the nights in vehicles. Several were living outdoors, in tents or in unstable living situations. We sheltered 41 unique animals (36 dogs, 4 cats and even a turtle.)
HAAT Force partners with Arapahoe County Housing Navigators and other resources to help our guests with their immediate and long-term needs.
Click here for our end-of-season newsletter for 2022-2023 and a full story of our work.
Click here for our end-of-season newsletter for 2021-2022 and a full story of our work.
Click here for our end-of-season newsletter for 2020-2021 and a full story of our work.
Client Testimonial We received the following message from one of our severe weather motel voucher guests last season: "please accept my gratitude for the warm dry nights you and your organization have so graciously bestowed upon me...it was wonderful being able to shower when I wanted and use the bathroom when I needed and to charge my phone or leave things and not worry about them disappearing. You guys are giving so much more than shelter from the elements with these rooms...you're giving peace of mind and safety. It becomes exhausting being homeless...from the bottom of my heart thank you and God bless us all."
Our guests this season included a family with a single mother, two teenagers, an elderly grandmother, a dog and a cat. Despite the mother receiving TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), the grandmother receiving Social Security, and one of the teenagers working while going to high school, during the season they were having difficulty finding an affordable place to live. Another man had a wife who experienced a chronic disabling condition; he was having difficulty with employment because he had to take care of his wife full-time. Each guest had a unique set of circumstances and needs.