2025 Dream Team Partnership in Service Award: The City of Cleveland
The 2025 The Dream Team Partnership in Service Award Recipient is the City of Cleveland’s ‘A Home for Every Neighbor’ Initiative.’ To watch a video highlighting the program, go to https://youtu.be/QSuXmo_plLU.
Launched in February 2024, the City of Cleveland’s ‘A Home for Every Neighbor’ Initiative was established to provide additional, stable and supportive housing options to unsheltered individuals. The initial goal was to house 150 city residents in 18 months. ‘A Home for Every Neighbor’ surpassed this goal – and the timeline — by reaching 154 neighbors in need by April 2025, just 14 months after the initiative launched.
As of October 2025, 177 men and women now have homes. Of those, 70% had experienced chronic homelessness, which is defined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development as an “individual or family who is homeless and resides in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter, and has been homeless and residing in such a place for at least 1 year or on at least four separate occasions in the last 3 years.” At Joseph & Mary’s Home, 41% of residents are chronically homeless.
Not only does A Home for Every Neighbor connect residents with housing, it also works with various ministries and organizations within Northeast Ohio to offer wraparound services. The partners provide case management, outreach, strategy consulting, connections to mental health care and drug treatment, legal aid, funding administration, and facilitating charitable donations for furniture, clothing, and other items.
The City of Cleveland has been a longstanding supporter to Joseph & Mary’s Home. We are grateful to have strong community support to help the most vulnerable and in need, and to have a partner in our work of moving our residents forward to stable housing.
About The Dream Team Partnership in Service Award
Throughout their 174-year history, the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine (CSA) have devoted their lives to meeting community needs and adapting their ministries to remain responsive as needs change. To do this, the sisters collaborate with a host of partners who help make their service possible. Joseph & Mary’s Home mirrors this tradition, relying on strategic partnerships to provide the best care for men and women experiencing homelessness. Together with other service providers, government entities, universities, healthcare systems, housing providers and others, we ensure that individuals experiencing homelessness have the best chance of achieving long-term health and housing stability.
The purpose of the Dream Team Partnership in Service Award is to recognize valuable partners who have made deep and meaningful contributions to the mission of Joseph & Mary’s Home, in the same spirit of service as the partnerships the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine have developed over the years.
The name of this award is derived from a group of eight, talented and determined CSA sisters — the “Dream Team” — who helped develop numerous projects responding to evolving community needs, including Joseph’s Home. Their commitment to researching the most effective models, finding excellent partners and persevering even when the obstacles seemed too steep exemplifies the character of the individual or organization we seek to honor with this award.
