Our Mission

First Step Communities creates interim housing and emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness.

Here, they will live in safety, dignity, and receive the services needed, and take the first step away from homelessness toward self-sufficiency and permanent housing.

A Bridge out of homelessness

Donation to The Grove in memory of Lisa Vollmann

Featured Highlights

Chamberlain University Students

Students from Chamberlain University donated bottles of water to both our SafeGround sites! Kindness rules!✨

Fresh Haircuts Day

Thank you @bastillebarbers for helping our folks feel good with a fresh cut at our young adult shelter!

SafeGround Donation

Thank you to all that have donated, today we have enough supplies to offer oatmeal, breakfast bars, fruit, milk and cereal, coffee and creamer along with reusable cups! It’s all the things I know I take for granted that really make the difference. We are so grateful for the kindness the community has shown this project and the people utilizing the services. Have a great day ya’ll, we appreciate you!

Bombas Socks

Shout out to @bombas for sending us a HUGE box of socks! We appreciate the support and couldn’t do it without it ⭐️

Case Manager

Congratulations to our RiverFront SafeGround daytime CSA lead for accepting a Case Manager position at our North A campus. Sydney has been with FSC for almost a year. She weathered WX SafeGround and has been an intricate part of setting up RiverFront. We will miss her a ton but can’t wait to see her grow! We love you Sydney ⭐️

The Grove

Let’s give it up for The Groves case management team for housing their 9TH YOUTH JUST THIS MONTH! The Grove is our youth shelter that consists of 24 cabins. They have been movin’ and shakin’ over there, making a difference in the lives of the youth experiencing homelessness in our community. Congrats to all of you, there is truly something special about a case manager that can connect with a youth coming from a variety of traumatic experiences ❤️ Keep it up team ⭐️

Job Application Workshop

Our young people at The Grove are participating in a Job Application workshop today. Watching them support one another through the process is really great!

North A

First Step Communities Case Manager, @danieldsalazar10 , has helped yet another couple return home. Such great successes coming out of the SafeGround in the recent weeks. We are so proud of all the work being done. It takes a village and we love ours! Thank you, Danny, so grateful to have you on our team ⭐️