Providence Place

“For over 30 years we have evolved to keep up with the growing need and live out our mission to our hungry and homeless neighbors. With Providence Place, we will be able to provide the solution of housing to people who are homeless. Providing a place for people who have no place…This is a dream come true for those of us, staff, volunteers, and supporters, who have walked with people experiencing homelessness at Daily Bread.”

Dr. Jeffrey Njus‍
Executive Director, Daily Bread & Providence Place

WHAT is

WHAT IS

providence

Providence

place?

Providence Place is a 120-unit permanent supportive housing community scheduled to open on Sarno Road by the end of 2026. This new community will include wrap-around services to help residents overcome barriers and successfully transition out of homelessness.

Providence Place is not just another housing development. It is an innovative, person-centered, housing-led approach to addressing the urgent and growing crisis of homelessness in our community. It acknowledges that each person’s journey out of homelessness is unique, and that individualized support is essential. Supporting Providence Place is an investment in the future of our community, in the lives of vulnerable individuals, and in the values that make our community strong.

Providence Place will include 120 one-and two-bedroom units, and offer the following supportive services integrated and available on-site to effectively meet the needs of the long-term homeless population.

Ongoing Education & Training

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In-home Nursing and Medical Care

In-home nursing and medical respite care to effectively manage an acute or chronic condition such as diabetes, or to recover from a recent hospitalization.

Employment Opportunities

Employment opportunities and services for residents with barriers to employment, including 20-plus on-site jobs, connections to jobs via supportive employment partnerships with local employers, and assistance with reliable transportation.

Comprehensive Healthcare

Primary care, mental and behavioral healthcare, substance use disorder rehabilitation and addiction medicine for problem drug or alcohol use, dental care, and pharmacy services.

Healthcare Navigation Services

Health needs assessment and assistance with Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security Disability Insurance, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, and other resources where applicable.

Life Skills Development

Life skills development in activities of daily living such as cooking, cleaning, maintaining an apartment, managing a routine, finances, laundry, healthy relationships, self-care, and caregiving.

building

bUILDING

on a

legacy

When Daily Bread opened 35 years ago, it started as a humble soup kitchen serving 14 meals on its first day. Over three decades later, experience has taught us that a day shelter is a halfway measure, and what our unsheltered neighbors really need is a home. With that knowledge, our activities expanded to providing a pathway home in 2018, and Daily Bread housed almost 400 formerly homeless individuals in a few short years. Unfortunately, housing unsheltered persons has become increasingly challenging in recent years as the real estate market has tightened and there is a growing crisis of a lack of deeply affordable housing.

Understanding the increasing need in our community and recognizing that no other local non-profit organization is positioned to meet the need with significant impact, Daily Bread’s Board of Directors made a bold decision to pursue innovative solutions and committed to developing ProvidencePlace. This will be the only development of its kind in Brevard, where deeply affordable housing with services is desperately needed.

Daily Bread has a remarkable 35-year track record of service and impact. Providence Place builds on this legacy; offering a solution that has already demonstrated its potential to change lives.

no one

left

behind

While Daily Bread’s Fee Avenue campus will eventually close when Providence Place opens in 2026, the mission of “ensuring that no one faces hunger or homelessness alone” will live on with a commitment to the three pillars of food distribution, supportive housing, and homeless outreach.

In 2024, a DailyBread Mobile Outreach Vehicle (MOV) will begin visiting sites where homeless individuals are living and gathering and making scheduled visits to the food banks that are part of Daily Bread’s food distribution network. Staff and volunteers will interact with homeless individuals and those in danger of becoming homeless. We will know their names, assess their needs, provide the necessities to survive on the streets, and assist them in moving forward out of homelessness.

The MOV will be joined by Streetside Showers, which provides hygiene and laundry, and a food truck providing hot meals. Through this outreach, we will provide the most important need to people who are homeless: connection to resources and connection to housing!

invest

in our

community

Providence Place is a unique opportunity to make a transformative impact.

For more information on how you can support this innovative solution to homelessness in our community, contact Brandy Bean at 321-960-8610 or brandy@providence.place

Providence Place is a project of Daily Bread Inc., a 501(c)3.
Federal Tax ID number: `59-2846212`

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Providence Place will include 120 one-and two-bedroom units, and offer the following supportive services integrated and available on-site to effectively meet the needs of the long-term homeless population.

This project is in partnership with the City of Melbourne, which contributed 3 acres and $3 million, Brevard Health Alliance, which will operate a Federally Qualified Health Clinic, Steadytown, Brevard Homeless Coalition, and the Housing Authority of Brevard.