Next Door for Young Women
Are you homeless and interested in doing the hard work to become self-supporting?
The Next Door is a residential program for women who have nowhere to live.
Women in the program concentrate on becoming financially stable and self-supporting.
Women who do not have jobs search fulltime for employment. Those who do have jobs save one-third of every paycheck for their future housing costs. Women who are struggling with substance abuse or addiction make and keep a personal recovery plan involving 12-step groups. Women who have not completed High School get connected with a program to earn the GED.
At the Next Door women are assigned a bed and dresser. Food and personal hygiene supplies are provided free of charge. Bus tokens are provided free of charge to women who are looking for work.
Every woman is expected to do one daily chore assigned by the staff to keep the house clean and in good order. Curfew, seven days a week, is 9:30 pm. Women must be out of the house working or looking for work every weekday from 9 am to 3 pm.
If you are homeless and interested in doing the hard work to become self-supporting, we would like to support you in your efforts.
Contact the Next Door at 269-349-2119 between 3 pm and 10 pm any day of the week or stop by during those hours at the Next Door, 1215 W. North Street, in the Douglas neighborhood of Kalamazoo.
The Next Door for young women –
1215 W. North Street – 269-349-2119 –
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- Find work
- Save for future housing
- Enter or maintain recovery from substance abuse & addiction
- Complete High School or the GED
- Work on other issues