Help Bring a Low Barrier Shelter to Billings

In December of 2023, Off The Streets opened a 12-bed emergency shelter to serve those who have fallen through the gaps in care - the chronically homeless. Since then, we've cared for well over 100 individuals, helping roughly 50% find more stable housing. We haven't done it alone. We've partnered with other service agencies in our city to make sure we treat the whole individual, not just the circumstances which landed them homeless. We provide case management to walk alongside our unhoused neighbors and empower them to make the changes they need in life to succeed on their path toward home. Our model is working. Women in our shelter stay an average of 19 days before moving on to more permanent housing. Men stay an average of 40 days. These are the chronically homeless, people who have been unhoused for 12 months of more over at least a three year period. In December of 2024, we expanded our emergency shelter to 24 beds, helping more of the chronically homeless get off the streets and to a place that is warm, safe and welcoming.

To continue this work, we need your help! It costs roughly $17 a day to serve just one individual. Will you help us in our mission?

Our long-term goal at Off The Streets (OTS) is simple: open a low-barrier homeless shelter in Billings so that all homeless in our community have a place to stay on their journey toward home.

Our services aren't duplicated within the community. We also rely on existing programs other service agencies to help us serve this community. We partner with: