Housing & Employment Services
Housing & Employment Services works alongside individuals and families to help them build strong foundations like meeting housing needs to become stable or moving to higher levels of self-fulfillment through case management and employment services.
Housing Services
Emergency Shelter
Our shelter helps individual adults become stable by meeting their basic needs with shelter and food. Those in the emergency shelter also receive assistance obtaining benefits, accessing health care, and locating permanent housing. Once a person achieves stability in the shelter program, Case Management and the Education Employment team will work with them to build on their strengths, and develop a pathway to higher levels of self-sufficiency and self-fulfillment.
For information and openings, contact EECM at 412-345-7135 or emergencyshelter@eecm.org
or Allegheny Link at 1-866-730-2368
Temporary Overflow Shelter
Providing safe cold-weather shelter from 7PM to 7AM, January 29th to March 31st, 2023. For individuals and families in need, regardless of circumstances.
The Allegheny County Department of Human Services is working together with community shelters like EECM to provide low-barrier overflow shelter during cold winter months. We will be providing safe, temporary shelter until individuals are ready to engage in other housing services. While staying overnight with EECM, individuals will also have access to education, employment, and housing resources.
HOW TO ACCESS THE OVERFLOW EMERGENCY SHELTER:
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Individuals seeking shelter should arrive at EECM Entrance G at 7PM for check-in. Check-in closes at 10PM.
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Shelter users MUST arrive prior to 10PM for shelter check-in. We will keep doors open until this time or bed capacity is full.
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Beds available on a first come/served basis, no reservations.
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Families with children seeking shelter should call shelter services at 1-866-730-2368 to get connected to beds.
For general questions or more information, contact EECM at 412-304-9672 or email overflowshelter.org.
Recovery House
Recovery House is a licensed 90-day program designed for adult men and women in active recovery and who are referred from a treatment facility, probation, or justice-related services. With housing being stable, the program focuses on helping individuals move into long-term recovery in the community through peer support and mentoring, case management, and work with the Education Employment team. If you are a referral source and would like to make a referral, please fill out this form and email/fax it to the information below.
For more information, contact EECM at 412-345-7160 or email recoveryhouse@eecm.org.
Case Management &
Employment Services
Case Management
EECM case management is integral to all of our programs. Case management services help individuals and families meet their basic needs by focusing on permanent housing resources, obtaining income, receiving benefits, accessing resources such as insurance and health care, and connecting to other community-based resources. Case Managers also work to connect people, who call in or come to the facility, with the necessary community resources for assistance with things such as, obtaining IDs, birth certificates and Social Security Cards, finding new affordable housing, locating rental/utility assistance, and many other needs.
Education & Employment (E&E)
E&E focuses on helping people move from surviving to thriving by gaining necessary life skills and employment skills. We offer multiple programs within the E&E area.
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Basic employability and life skills programs to enable a person to become and remain steadily employed.
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Employment services for individuals in recovery from drug abuse disorders. Connections are made to Recovery Friendly Workplaces and Drug Free Workplaces.
If you are a referral source and would like to make a referral, please fill out this form and email/fax it to the information below.
To learn about our E&E program, contact EECM at 412-345-7159 or email EducationAndEmployment@eecm.org
Workforce Development
EECM WorkForce strives to create an environment where individuals can learn important business skills, move toward self-sufficiency, and become active contributors to the Pittsburgh community.
SewForward’s sewing classes provide learning opportunities for community members and business growth opportunities for EECM small batch manufacturing clients. After completing classes, participants gain valuable commercial sewing knowledge to implement in workforce development opportunities like producing contracts with local businesses or completing additional apprenticeship hours outside our organization.
EECM Employment Services offer training which includes GED prep, resume development, interviewing skills, computer skills, job search, financial literacy, and reading and math skills for the workplace.