Tess* gained employment and housing within 46 days of being in shelter to successfully end her homelessness.

After less than 30 days staying at UMOM, Ella and her family have moved into their new apartment.

UMOM took me and my family in not knowing who we were and not judging us. They gave us opportunities to better our lives. Thank you UMOM for helping my husband and I achieve our dream.

“I signed the lease to my apartment today and I'm so excited. It was a long journey to get there.”

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Robert came home in 1991 after serving in the Gulf War. Years later, Robert began experiencing shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and fatigue. Over the next several years, maintaining housing and even basic needs became more difficult due to the pandemic, rising costs, and health issues. Then, the unimaginable happened.

Johnnie moved to Glendale, Arizona in 2017 in hopes that it would alleviate some of his health issues. Upon arrival, he struggled with finding an affordable place to live while on a fixed income.

“I never thought as a property manager for 15 years that I would be in a shelter, with my family on the other side of the counter,” says Maria. “It’s not like I’m not an educated person, because I am.”

Chloe came to Arizona from San Diego, California, with her daughter, week-old son, and a baby on the way. Chloe had been living at the Salvation Army, but knew she didn’t want to be in a shelter forever. She wanted a job to support her family and her own place to raise them in.

Mallory was able to flee her abusive situation and rescue her mom, but struggled to find a safe, stable home for the two of them.

A domestic violence call connected Lika with the resources she needed to escape an abusive husband and start an independent life.

Like so many families seeking help at UMOM, the dominoes started to fall for Mariana and Jorge’s family shortly after their toddler son caught a respiratory virus and had to be hospitalized.

To save as much as possible for a rent deposit, Akia took on side jobs, making deliveries around her work schedule. It wasn’t enough. No matter how many hours she worked, her income was not going to be sufficient to raise two months’ rent and a deposit while paying for motels.

It wasn’t the first time Sabrina and her five children had tried to flee her abusive partner. But deep down, she knew it was her last chance to leave for good.

When her husband of ten years died a few years ago, Leslie and her young son left their home in Kentucky and moved back home to Michigan. But enough time there reminded her of why she left home in the first place: bad influences she didn’t want around her 12-year-old, LaBrandon. Leslie needed a fresh start.

Donny and Janice lost all of what they had left to a rental scam. Out of options, they moved into a 24-hour storage unit with their three-year-old daughter by day and slept in their car at night, even when temperatures never dropped below 85 degrees.

As she began to pick up the pieces of her life, Kelly and her children were forced out of the rental unit when her mom passed and spent the next few months trying to find a place to live. But rising rent prices and the old eviction automatically disqualified her applications from being accepted.

After two months on the street in scorching summer temperatures, Mike and his pregnant daughter Liz found safety and a fresh start at UMOM.