Housing Resources
In the 2024–2025 school year, 209 children in our school district were considered homeless — living in hotels, motels, doubled up with other families, or in shelters. We began the 2026 school year with 94 children identified as homeless.
We want to be humble learners as we engage with these issues. These are complex challenges that people are working hard to navigate, and we're committed to listening, asking questions, and building relationships with the people and organizations doing this work alongside us. Conestoga Valley SEEDS believes that addressing housing concerns is essential to a healthy, thriving Conestoga Valley community.
Through a collaborative relationship with The Factory Ministries, we're grateful to share an Adult Advocate who dedicates 20 hours a week to case management with our neighbors facing housing concerns. This is a safe, no-judgment starting point for anyone in our community dealing with a housing issue — whatever that looks like. Our Advocate meets one-on-one with neighbors navigating:
- Eviction prevention — understanding options, timelines, and next steps before a housing situation becomes a crisis
- Transitional living in a hotel or motel — support while searching for something more stable
- Doubled up with another family — connecting households sharing space out of necessity with resources toward a place of their own
- Other housing concerns that don't fit neatly into a category — if you're not sure where to start, that's exactly why this role exists. We are here to walk alongside neighbors as they reach their goals.
When someone reaches out, we take time to listen to their story, understand their situation, and see what resources we can connect them with. We desire to be a bridge for someone as they take the next steps toward housing stability.
Refreshing recreation
We recognize the physical, mental, emotional and social benefits that can come from recreation! We also recognize that living in transition, in a hotel, creates a large barrier to this benefit.
Because of that, in partnership with Zion Lutheran Church, we created Refreshing Recreation. If this is something you would like to be a part of, reach out to your Conestoga Valley social worker or to Michelle at Michelle@seedscv.com
Are you a Landlord? This is for you!
Homegoods space
One of the things we love most about walking alongside our neighbors is being able to meet a very practical need: helping someone furnish or restock a home. Whether it's a family moving from transitional living in a hotel into a place of their own, or a neighbor in one of our other programs who just needs help filling a gap, we want them to be able to walk into our Household Goods Room and shop for free — choosing what they need with dignity, not out of a box someone else packed for them.
This space is stocked entirely through the generosity of our community. Below, you'll find how you can help keep it full.
