Colette's Children's Home is a nonprofit organization that provides emergency shelter and transitional housing for homeless single women and women with children. CCH’s mission is to provide homeless single women and homeless mothers with children a safe home and nurturing environment where they obtain compassionate support and services needed to achieve self-sufficiency. In 16 years of service to the community, we have taken more than 3,000 women and children off the streets. The need for our services is overwhelming: Last year we had 3,816 requests from homeless women and children and were able to house and serve 489 of those requests. 76% of the women who entered our program obtained employment and 76% of the women and children who left the program entered permanent housing.