There’s no love like family,
no place like home.

Come In Out of The Elements

People experiencing homelessness find food, shelter, and stability with us.

Strength in Community

Families foster, parents find healing, and youth prepare for independence with us.

If a Child Hurts, the Home Hurts

Children recover in residential treatment while families find strength with us.

Michigan Families are Hurting.
In Matters of the Heart, Inaction is Not an Option.

Family-Based Care and Youth Transition

Children need the love of family. Our foster care and adoption programs find permanency for children engaged in the system. Our family preservation programs empower families to reunify and stay together. Our Independent Living programs rally support behind youth leaving care. The love of family is the most powerful intervention out there.

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Residential and Family Healing

When children aren’t safe in community, Holy Cross provides safety, structure, and nurture within its residential treatment programming. We work just as hard to help the families heal and find strength, so that children can get back quickly and safely to the people they love and who love them.

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Shelter and Community Care

When our neighbors’ safety net falters, our New Hope Community Center welcomes them in from the cold. Community members find 24/7 shelter, warm meals, and veteran’s services with us while we support them to find safe and stable housing. We are all members of the same community: let’s lean on one another.

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Where The Heart Is

Connection is what gives us strength.

Safety

Safety – real and felt – gives us all the foundation we need to pursue the future we want for ourselves.

Nurture

We all need healthy, positive, strengths-focused relationships to fuel change for ourselves and for our communities.

Shared Power

Through equity work, meaningful engagement, and advocacy, we link arms with our neighbors and amplify our communities’ voices.

Purpose

We maximize our resources and act with intentionality to achieve the greatest possible impact.

Voices

 

“The more I worked with the staff the better I got. A light bulb went off in my head and I realized I could accomplish good things. My attitude is better, and I feel better because of it.”

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Will

Residential & Family Healing

“During my time here, I have gotten a lot of support from the staff who have always been open to help me with anything. I have really grown as a person and received a lot of encouragement to set goals and work for them.””

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Alli

Family-Based Care and Youth Transition

“With every challenge I have faced in my life, I feel that it has taken part in shaping a better me. Growing up, the challenge was tackling each day, living each day. Now, I face each day seeing how it will shape my future.”

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Sam

Family-Based Care and Youth Transition

“Holy Cross has been very different from the other four homes I’ve been to. Here you have people that come in 24 hours and day and and make it their goal to help you. I feel like I don’t have to hide who I am and that’s an incredible feeling.”

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Andrea

Residential & Family Healing

75 Years Helping Michigan Families

Holy Cross Services, founded in 1948, has learned, grown, and changed alongside our communities across Michigan. Once focused only on residential care for children, today HCS offers a wide array of program areas designed to meet the complex needs of families across the state.

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Parent Advocacy

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ABOUT HOLY CROSS SERVICES

HCS specializes in empowerment and trauma recovery for children and families engaged in the child welfare system and supporting our neighbors to end their episodes of homelessness. Although these areas of service have significant intersection, we operate our programs through three functional arms:

  • Division of Family-Based Care and Youth Transition
  • Division of Residential Care and Family Healing
  • Division of Housing and Community Advocacy

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Holy Cross Services is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation

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