Thanks for all your support and votes.
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this is the thing about poverty though
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you know it's cyclical like that I'm a
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mother 8 I took six children with me I
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was just thankful that they had space
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for us and they've made the space even
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though they didn't have a room available
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they made it home so conce has
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established the passport to
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self-sufficiency
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we call it pts it is a framework for
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helping our families break the cycle of
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poverty they gave me a sense of home
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they let me make the decisions for my
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family and I was able to get my license
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back they helped me with my housing they
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found fine houses they helped me
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actually register my children for school
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even though it was a homeless shelter I
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didn't feel like less than via Nair at
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Pat's were all about family partner with
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us let's create opportunities to succeed
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together
COTS is a significant provider of housing in the metropolitan Detroit area and one of the largest providers of housing to homeless families in the City of Detroit. Its emergency shelter provides a safe place for families to stay, three hot nutritious meals per day, toiletries, clothing, bedding and pillows. In addition, COTS also provides Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) to individuals and families who are homeless and who have a special need or disability such as mental illness, chronic substance abuse, chronic health or physical disability, as well as survivors of domestic violence.
COTS assist families in reaching their housing, economic, health, education, and career goals as they strive to overcome homelessness and break the cycle of poverty for themselves, the next generation, and beyond.
COTS was established in 1982 to serve the most vulnerable members of the Detroit community. Starting initially with an emergency shelter to address Detroit's growing homelessness crisis, COTS today offers a wide continuum of services ranging from emergency shelter to permanent housing. All programs are designed to meet the agency's mission of alleviating homelessness by providing an array of services that enable people to achieve self-sufficiency and obtain quality affordable housing.
(313) 831-3777
www.cotsdetroit.org
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