Welcome to Edgerton Outreach
Edgerton Community Outreach provides support for
families and individuals in need throughout northern Rock County, Wisconsin. The Food Pantry at Edgerton Community Outreach provides a two week supply of nutritious food to low income families in the Edgerton School District. People are able to utilize the food pantry once a month. If a family is facing extreme need or hardship they are able to visit the food pantry more than once a month. Persons that have limited access to an adequate food supply for all family members through normal channels (purchasing food from the store) are considered to be food insecure. ECO feels that no person should go hungry.
Emergency Rent Payment Assistance:
Edgerton Outreach is able to provide a payment of $400 to the landlord of a qualify participant if the participant is homeless/at risk of homelessness or if they are facing hardship. ECO strives to keep people in their homes. Each year ECO assists over 50 families. Each year over 75% of the participants receiving assistance from ECO remain in permanent housing for at least 6 months after the assistance is given.
Utility Bill Payment Assistance:
Edgerton Outreach provides energy bill payment assistance to low-income families during the months of March –October annually. Many families are able to access assistance through Energy Services of Rock County for assistance with their heating costs once per heating season (November – April).
Emergency Lodging:
Homelessness is a hidden problem in our community. The Edgerton area does not have a large number of persons sleeping on our street corners so many do not believe homelessness to be an issue. In 2008 ECO provided over 350 shelter nights to homeless individuals through our hotel voucher program.
Medical Needs:
Edgerton Outreach is able to assist low-income families with costs associated with medical needs. This program covers many types of needs.
Transitional Living:
In 2006 Edgerton Outreach received a donation of $100,000 to be used specifically for the purchase of a property for our Transitional Living Program. ECO’s Lawton Street Home provides housing for two households that were formerly homeless. Participants in the program work closely with a case manager on a variety of life skills with the end goal of the participant being able to rent successfully when their term is completed at Lawton Home. Participants are eligible to live in the property owned by Edgerton Outreach for an initial 18 months. If monthly program benchmarks are met throughout the program than participants can continue in the program for an additional 6 months making their total program stay 24 months.
Edgerton Community Outreach, Inc. is a not-for-profit
agency that has existed for 35 or more years. Our organization was formed by a vision of the members of the Methodist Church who felt it was important to help the needy in our community. Their venture was called the Lake and Street Mission. Their main focus was feeding the hungry. In the eighties this group worked with the St. Paul Society that operated a Thrift Store on Fulton Street. In the late eighties the Thrift Store on Fulton Street was going to close and a small group of concerned citizens decided to form what we now know as Edgerton Community Outreach. They moved to our current location of 106 South Main Street. Edgerton Community Outreach is a partner agency with the Salvation Army and also with The United Way of North Rock County.
Thrift Store
106 South Main Street
Hours:
Monday ---- 10am-4pm
Tuesday --- 10am-4pm
Wednesday -- 1pm-6pm
Thursday -- 10am-4pm
Friday ---- 10am-4pm
Saturday -- 10am-3pm