Continuum of Care, Inc.’s mission is to enable people who are challenged with mental illness, intellectual disabilities, addiction, or homelessness to rebuild a meaningful life and thrive in the community.
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The Great Give® 2023
For The Great Give® 2023, Continuum is raising money to support COMPASS our newly launched Mobile Crisis Unit to help those in our community struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse crisis.
COMPASS stands for "Compassionate Allies Serving our Streets." We help those struggling to stabilize, and we provide case management and therapies before they are ready to transition to living independently in the community.
Be a Compassionate Ally, by helping to raise money for resources to help turn the lives around for these vulnerable individuals.
Click Here to Give on Continuum's The Great Give® Donation Page
(Do not donate through our general donation page)
Join Our Great Give Team
As a Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser, you can help Continuum raise 3x more for our Mobile Crisis Unit. Contact Marketing at marketing@continuumct.org to join or Click here to download our P2P Fundraiser Guide.
- We will help you create your own fundraising page.
- Page can be for an Individual Fundraiser or for a Team of up to 10 people.
- Then, you share your page with your personal network of friends, family, community members, etc. We will help you with messaging and scheduling.
- Prizes for most money raised per individual/team:
- First Place: $200 worth of Amazon Gift Cards
- Second Place: $150 worth of Amazon Gift Cards
- Third Place: $100 worth of Amazon Gift Cards
Haven for Hope
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Continuum of Care, recently launched a groundbreaking crisis intervention program called COMPASS, that stands for "Compassionate Allies Serving Our Streets" and is designed to alleviate the need for police, first responders and/or hospital intervention on 911 calls for substance abuse, mental health and housing emergencies when not necessary. We help them stabilize, provide case management and therapies before they are ready to transition to living independently in the community. We look forward to expanding our capacity to help more individuals like Susan.
Susan was homeless when we first met her. She had been on a sober path of recovery for four years until she recently relapsed, which turned into a sad sequence of events that left her homeless. She also had a history of mental illness. Susan found a bed at a local shelter but another shelter mate robbed her. He took everything from her -- all of her money, identification cards, and personal effects. She expressed her frustration and an altercation ensued. Local police were called, who then called Continuum's COMPASS program.
Susan was desperate, feeling paranoid with nowhere to turn and no one to trust. That's when our licensed social workers and clinician's with COMPASS reached her. Their patience and caring was a big relief to Susan. She said that she wanted to get clean again and get her life back. The COMPASS team became Susan's advocates by stabilizing her, bringing her to one of our safe houses, finding her a detox bed and setting up resources and services for her. This is only the beginning of the journey for Susan but COMPASS is right beside her, helping her rebuild her life.
Your support is sorely needed because the people we encounter in the COMPASS program are so vulnerable, and they need so much in order to even begin to turn their lives around.