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The Path to Lifelong Recovery
When UGM Spokane expanded to Coeur d’Alene in 2012, there were no other long-term recovery programs available for women and children in North Idaho.We saw a need to serve single women and women with...
More than 2,000 men, women, and children in the Inland Northwest are experiencing homelessness right now. Food and shelter are crucial but are not enough to break the cycle of homelessness, abuse, or addiction in a person’s life. To make a difference, we have to go deeper.
Lives damaged by trauma, abuse, addiction, mental illness, or neglect are not healed through housing alone. Since 1951, UGM has been providing a pathway out of homelessness through a whole-person approach to physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional restoration. Recovery programs, mentorships, job training, and transitional housing options are just a few of the resources made available at UGM.
Recurring donations provide the stability needed for UGM to reach and serve every guest with these invaluable services. When you sign up to give monthly, you’re investing in life-long change. You will have a permanent impact on local men and women working to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse in their lives.
Your gift of $152 will invite a child from one of Spokane’s low-income neighborhoods to a life-changing week at UGM Camp.
More than 2,000 men, women, and children in the Inland Northwest are experiencing homelessness right now. Food and shelter are crucial but are not enough to break the cycle of homelessness, abuse, or addiction in a person’s life. To make a difference, we have to go deeper.
Lives damaged by trauma, abuse, addiction, mental illness, or neglect are not healed through housing alone. Since 1951, UGM has been providing a pathway out of homelessness through a whole-person approach to physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional restoration. Recovery programs, mentorships, job training, and transitional housing options are just a few of the resources made available at UGM.
Recurring donations provide the stability needed for UGM to reach and serve every guest with these invaluable services. When you sign up to give monthly, you’re investing in life-long change. You will have a permanent impact on local men and women working to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse in their lives.
Jun 6, 2023 by Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager
When UGM Spokane expanded to Coeur d’Alene in 2012, there were no other long-term recovery programs available for women and children in North Idaho.We saw a need to serve single women and women with...
May 31, 2023 by Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager
Does the LC Valley have a homeless problem? This is the question we asked Carly Klappenbach, Director of Engagement and Missions at CrossPoint Alliance Church in Lewiston, ID.
“A lot of what I’ve...
May 24, 2023 by Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager
“I was sitting on a bench crying because I didn't know where we were going to go that night.”
Leor lost her home when her husband passed away last June. She and her fourteen-year-old daughter,...
May 17, 2023 by Genevieve Gromlich, Content and Communications Manager
Every summer, about 500 children from Spokane’s low-income neighborhoods are invited by their local church to spend a week at UGM Camp. While UGM provides the wonderful riverfront campground,...
We believe every person is created in the image of God, with immeasurable beauty and worth; that people should not be defined by their present condition or past mistakes. Healing for our brokenness begins with the heart, with connection, with understanding how much we are loved by a good God. With healing comes change, the potential for joy and meaning.
made real life change available to 2,740 men, women, and children experiencing homelessness.
meals
nights of shelter
medical visits
individuals in recovery
men and women found jobs
heard the gospel
48% Individual Contributions
46% Contributed Goods*
4% Enterprises
2% Other
88% Program Services
6% Administration
6% Fundraising
Union Gospel Mission has been meeting the needs of the poor and homeless for 70 years and operates 100% free of government funding.