YWCA Helena

YWCA Helena is a non-profit organization located at 501 North Park Ave. in Helena, Montana that provides transitional housing and supportive services for homeless women and their children. The organization's mission is to prevent homelessness, provide safe and supportive housing for women and children experiencing homelessness, and provide services that restore hope, self-sufficiency, and happy and healthy lives. Their guiding principles include healing by addressing co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, providing safe shelter to transition people from homelessness to housed status, strengthening families through reunification with children, offering compassionate recovery-friendly services, stabilizing residents through transition to independent living, and ensuring sustainability of their programs through collaboration with staff, board members, partner agencies, and community support.