About Humility Homes
Our Mission
Humility Homes and Services, Inc. is committed to ending homelessness by offering housing opportunities and supportive services in the greater Quad Cities area.
Our Vision
A home for every person.
Our Philosophy
We practice Radical Acceptance, welcoming participants as equals believing everyone should have a future that is not dictated by their past.
We provide Housing First programs, prioritizing the need for quality and safe housing and understand homelessness is a reversible circumstance—not a personal characteristic.
We utilize an empowerment-based form of social work practice that emphasizes individual and family strengths and resiliency.
We embrace culturally competent social work practice by maintaining respect to the culture and languages of diverse individual and family groups.
We are Trauma-Informed, which recognizes trauma and recovery within the experience of homelessness and our role to prevent re-traumatization of our participants and the staff that serve them as we work together to identify sustainable housing options.
We incorporate Harm Reduction interventions, recognizing that substance abuse is an illness and that a variety of strategies are needed to reduce the harm associated with risky behaviors.
We are a leader in community collaboration, believing everyone has a role to making sure everyone has a home.
We are bound by several professional codes of ethics, which guide our work daily.
We believe homelessness is a systemic social injustice --- a reversible circumstance and not a personal characteristic.
Our Core Values
We believe in the principles of our founders, the Congregation of the Humility of Mary:
Quality: We believe in meeting a standard of excellence in everything we do.
Housing is a Human Right. We believe each person deserves to have a place they call home.
Integrity: We believe in acting according to strong, ethical principles.
Accountability: We honor our commitments.
Community: We believe in the power of partnership and collaborate with others to lead, advocate, and succeed in ending homelessness.
About HHSI
A photo from the 1989 National March on Washington for Housing. The Sisters of CHM attended the March and came back inspired to work with the homeless.
In 1990, Humility of Mary Housing, Inc. was founded with the purpose of serving single-parent families.
In 2008, the City of Davenport asked the Congregation of Humility of Mary (CHM) to take over the local emergency homeless shelter that was renamed Humility of Mary Shelter, Inc.
In 2018, Humility of Mary Housing, Inc. and Humility of Mary Shelter, Inc. merged, forming the organization known today as Humility Homes & Services, Inc. (HHSI).
We are dedicated to ending homelessness in the greater Quad Cities. The Jubilee Campus currently houses our supportive and administrative personnel. This location also includes the Corner Closet Donation, a supportive service center dedicated to providing clothing and material goods needed by participants in HHSI’s programs. The Fresh Start Resale Shop is open Monday through Friday, 9 AM - 4 PM, and provides community members the opportunity to shop at a low cost, raising funds, and awareness in the community at large. The Corner Closet provides clothing, and other household essentials to our program participants at no cost and is currently located at the Jubilee Center.
Our emergency shelter, located at 1016 W. 5th Street, houses up to 80 adults year-round and is the only low-barrier shelter in the Quad Cities. In addition to the Emergency Shelter, our organization is also involved in scattered site housing including supportive living programs and Mission-Focused Affordable housing rentals. Some of these federal programs include Permanent Supportive Housing, Rapid Rehousing, and Veterans Services Programs. In 2022, Humility Homes & Services, Inc. added 60 additional housing units totaling 152 units that provide individuals and families the opportunity to transition from homelessness to being stably housed.