Community Care Fellowship Opens Sixth Mobile Housing Navigation Center

Organization Partners with Nashville Launch Pad to Serve Youth Experiencing Homelessness

Community Care Fellowship (CCF), a non-profit organization that has served Nashville's unhoused and socially displaced for more than 40 years, is proud to announce the opening of a fifth mobile housing navigation center (MHNC). The center is located at Connection United Methodist Church in Donelson, Tennessee and offers 18 beds for young adults, ages 18-24. The day-to-day operations are run by Nashville Launch Pad, a nonprofit that runs a network of temporary, safer, street-free sleeping shelters for unhoused young adults which are open and affirming to LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies.

CCF partners with local congregations to operate six MHNCs—facilities that provide temporary housing for an average of 120 days with a goal of connecting each guest with income, addiction and mental health services, permanent housing, and a strong support network. Since October 2021, CCF has provided 245 people experiencing homelessness with temporary housing.

“The trauma of homelessness can have major effects on a youth’s development, leading to health, academic and social difficulties,” said Ryan LaSuer, Executive Director of Community Care Fellowship. “Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. Whether a guest is seeking a shower, a meal, or just somewhere to rest their head, we’re proud to offer another facility to meet their basic needs, no questions asked.”

Residence at CCF’s mobile housing navigation centers is facilitated through Metro Homeless Impact Division’s Coordinated Entry process.

Published in May 2022, the report titled “Nashville Performance Study of Homelessness and Affordable Housing” estimated that around 1,900 people experiencing homelessness live in the Metro Nashville area.