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FOOD BANKS
Beach House Family Shelter and Beach House Ashland (dba Leading Families Home) are family-centered emergency shelters in Toledo. Our shelters accept 2-parent and single-parent families with children.
Beach House Family Shelter and Beach House Ashland offer a home-like experience for Participants including food and comfortable rooms. The shelter also offers assessment, case management, and training programs, such as financial and health education.
EMERGENCY SHELTER
Beach House Family Shelter offers a beautiful, Victorian-esque environment that includes a kitchen, eating area, family room, and outdoor area for relaxation. It also offers a kids’ area outside with swings, a playset, and slide.
Several personal growth programs are also offered through the shelter, as well as programs and activities for children.
HOUSING
Beach House Family Shelter (dba Leading Families Home) is a family-centered emergency shelter in Toledo. Our shelter accepts 2-parent and single-parent families with children.
Beach House Family Shelter is located in a Victorian home and offers a home-like experience for Participants including food and comfortable rooms. The shelter also offers assessment, case management, and training programs, such as financial and health education.
HEALTH CARE
Beach House Family Shelter offers a beautiful, Victorian-esque environment that includes a kitchen, eating area, family room, and outdoor area for relaxation. It also offers a kids’ area outside with swings, a playset, and slide.
Several personal growth programs are also offered through the shelter, as well as programs and activities for children.
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ABOUT EMERGENCY SHELTER IN TOLEDO
The Beach House began in 1921 when Mrs. Helen (Beach) Jones, wife of the former mayor Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones, recognized the need to establish a shelter for unprotected women and children. Prior to that time, homeless women were offered shelter in the Lagrange Street jail. Women from several women's organizations assisted Mrs. Jones in establishing Beach House.
The first shelter was located at 547 Erie Street. The first floor of the shelter was for "wayward" girls and the second floor was the refuge for homeless women and children. The shelter was named in honor of the mother of Mrs. Jones, Harriet Beach, who was a defender of social justice. Beach House was managed and governed by a Board of Directors known as the "Women's Protective Association."
Beach House received tax-exempt status in 1942, and received a charter from the State of Ohio as a nonprofit corporation in 1963. The name, "Women's Protective Association was changed to "Beach House, Inc."
With the changing needs of our community, Beach House Family Shelter has expanded its role in
providing housing to the homeless in the greater Toledo area. In 1982 the program began to include
shelter for intact families (including the husband) and single-parent fathers with children.
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