The mission of Illumination Foundation is to disrupt the cycle of homelessness.
Housing
Family Emergency Shelters
We provide a wide array of services that support the healthy development of families and children who are unstably housed or homeless.
Our Family Emergency Homes are ready to welcome families who need a safe place to stay
as we work with them to address their specific needs on their journey to self-sufficiency. Illumination Foundation’s Children and Families Program provides trauma-informed mental health and family stabilization services designed to help children and parents heal from trauma, to disrupt the intergenerational cycle of homelessness. Programming includes intensive case management, parenting courses, children’s developmental screening, mental health services, academic enrichment, and housing navigation. We partner with CHOC to provide same-day pediatric visits and specialty care.
Illumination Foundation currently oversees five different Family Emergency Shelters:
Theriault House
The Bob Murphy House
The Gilbert House
The Plumeria House
Shah Happiness Home
Featured Video
How Childhood Trauma Effects Health Across A Lifetime
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.