Give Detroit

Coalition on Temporary Shelter (COTS)

COTS creates opportunities for families to collaborate, thrive, and succeed in building strong and stable households, neighborhoods, and communities.

Hour Detroit Staff

November 1, 2024

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Give Detroit – A Charitable Registry

Of all the heartbeats COTS touches in any given year, nearly 60% are children’s.

// MISSION

COTS creates opportunities for families to collaborate, thrive, and succeed in building strong and stable households, neighborhoods, and communities. We assist families in reaching their goals as they overcome homelessness and break the cycle of poverty.

// KEY SERVICES PROVIDED

COTS is dedicated to serving Detroit’s most vulnerable residents by providing emergency shelter, supportive housing, child care, and other critical wraparound services. We create opportunities for families overcoming homelessness and poverty to thrive, succeed, and build strong, stable households and communities.

Our services include a family-only emergency shelter, supportive housing, child development services for infants and toddlers, and mobility coaching and mentoring. In the past year alone, COTS assisted 414 families, impacting 1,101 adults and children. Nearly 60% of those we serve are children. Recognizing that poverty is a primary cause of homelessness, COTS has developed a comprehensive framework to disrupt generational poverty, focusing on long-term solutions that promote economic self-su ciency.

The Passport to Self-Sufficiency™ (PTS) is COTS’s innovative poverty-reduction framework. PTS uses a two-generation, whole-family approach, offering trauma-informed, person-centered services. These focus on housing, economic advancement, health, education, and career development coaching. COTS is also the first organization certified in Mobility Mentoring®, a proven economic mobility coaching model developed by Economic Mobility Pathways.

Through these efforts and partnerships, COTS is breaking the cycle of poverty and homelessness for families — today and for generations to come.

// UPCOMING EVENTS

Join us for Soup City on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, at the Roostertail. Enjoy delicious dishes from top Detroit restaurants while supporting families overcoming poverty and homelessness. Sponsorship opportunities are available — help Create Opportunities to Succeed!