Women’s Services
Transforming lives of women and children in need
Women’s Services
Transforming lives of women and children in need
Help, hope, and healing for women and children experiencing homelessness
We offer Christ-centered emergency care, residential programs, and recovery services for women and children facing homelessness, poverty, and addiction. Our holistic approach provides physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual help with the goal of transforming lives and preparing women for future success.
Contact us with any questions on our programs or services at 317.687.3630.
“Come to me, all you that are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
– Matthew 11:28
A journey of transformation begins in each person’s unique circumstances.
Emergency care and shelter open the door to long-term restoration at Wheeler Mission.
Targeted care programs
For real, lasting restoration
Our emergency services, residential programs, and addiction recovery courses offer expert rehabilitation care, combined with the love of Christ and the tools each person needs to establish a foundation for future health and success.
Emergency Shelter
We offer women and women with children 45 days of emergency care.
This includes shelter, hygiene items, clothing, and meals while assessing the factors that led them to experience homelessness. During their stay, guests work to identify their barriers to housing and can enter one of our longer term programs that focus on sustainable employment, mental health care, addiction recovery, and securing safe housing.
If you or someone you know wants more information about these services, please call 317.687.3630
Winter Contingency Program
In partnership with the Indianapolis community, the Winter Contingency Program ensures that every man, woman, and child in the Indianapolis area can find a safe place to sleep and a nourishing meal during the cold months. Five months out of the year, November 1 through March 31, low barrier shelter is offered on a night by night basis.
Residential programs
Our women’s residential programs address issues contributing to life instability and homelessness.
The goal of these long-term programs is to walk alongside women and children as they strengthen their walk with Christ, as well as to develop healthy, stable parenting skills and practices. The end goal of these programs is to prepare women and children for healthy, independent living after they leave Wheeler Mission.
If you or someone you know wants more information about these services, please call 317.687.3630
Foundations
The Foundations program helps individuals build a solid groundwork for successful, independent living by addressing specific issues that contribute to life instability…
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and homelessness. This is a residential program designed to assist women to become independent through job training, job procurement, community connections, and stabilization. Guests receive individualized case management, educational training in our computer lab, work therapy, career development and life-skill classes, spiritual training, and counseling. Guests in Foundations who need additional support for mental health challenges are able to undergo counseling, medical care, and medication stabilization with a service team while the Wheeler staff presents added support through the day-to-day challenges that are often intensified with a chronic illness or mental health diagnosis. The goal is to have all guests move to safe, affordable housing within nine months, obtain a sustainable income source, mend broken relationships, demonstrate life change, and be involved in a follow-up program for up to one year.
Psalm 16:11 “You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.” (NIV)
Compass
Compass is a program for women with children that focuses on reorienting the family unit by offering basic necessities along with life skills and parenting classes. It is a….
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6–9-month program designed to help moms build stabilization along with spiritual and skill development. Assistance with childcare, housing, and employment is also provided.
Proverbs 22:6 “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” (NIV)
Addiction recovery
Addiction is a common experience for women caught in the cycle of homelessness.
Our Higher Ground program is focused on total healing and restoration for the women who come to Wheeler Mission, through nurturing a relationship with Christ. And our Servant Leader Training residential internship program allows graduates to obtain ministry training and mentorship by serving within the context of a Christian community.
If you or someone you know wants more information about these services, please call 317.687.3630
Higher Ground Addiction Recovery & Discipleship Program
Higher Ground assists women struggling with substance abuse and other life-dominating addictions by focusing on a total life change through a relationship with…
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Christ. It is a residential program that begins highly structured and freedoms increase as the program continues, through a minimum of eight total months. The program is designed to focus on holistic life change, rather than a single focus on addiction. The foundation for this change is a relationship with Jesus Christ. The goal is transformation with minds focused on a desire to please God rather than self. Curriculum includes recovery classes and group and individual counseling along with life skills classes. Ladies also have Bible studies and learn how to apply the Word of God to daily decision making. The progressive nature of the programming allows for growth in skills to include meal planning, shopping, budgeting, and other independent living responsibilities. Individual mental health counseling is available both in-house and with coordinating agencies. The program offers many avenues for developing healthy relationships that will be long standing upon completion of the residential programming, so that each graduate leaves with a secure support system in place. Throughout Higher Ground, guests participate in Wheeler Mission’s social enterprise Restored Creations.
Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (NIV)
Servant Leader Training (SLT): Higher Ground
Servant Leader Training (SLT): is for graduates of our programs who decide to receive ministry training by serving within a Christian context. It is a nine-month residential…
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internship program for individuals who have completed Higher Ground and are seeking opportunities to serve others. This internship allows an individual to be trained while continuing to serve in Christian community. They will be able to address life issues, learn leadership skills, and develop God-given gifts/talents.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (NIV)
“I love myself.”
“I feel beautiful, radiant, worthy, and loved!”
Locations for women’s services
Center for Women & Children
Address: 3208 E. Michigan St., Indianapolis, IN 46201
Questions? 317.687.3630
- No appointment necessary for emergency shelter, beds are given away over the phone based on availability.
Services: Meals / Shelter / Chapel Services / Medical Clinics / Short-term Programs / Addiction Recovery Program
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Your generous gift empowers life-saving care for men, women, and children in our community, and opens the door for personal and spiritual transformation. Please help today!
$50/mo
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