C-U at Home

11/26/2025

This Thanksgiving we pause to give thanks-not just for the season, but for the lives being changed across our seven homes.

At C-U at Home, women and men are finding safety, stability, and a fresh start. Families are reconnecting. Stories are being rewritten. Hope is taking root.

This Thanksgiving, we're grateful for every person who makes this work possible.

From our C-U at Home Team to your families-Happy Thanksgiving!

11/19/2025

The C-U at Home Leadership team got together at Columbia Street Cafe in Urbana to celebrate Danny DeVito’s birthday.

Coincidentally, it was also our Executive Director, Melissa Courtwright’s birthday.

The conversation was fun, but a lot of it was about One Winter Night coming up in February.

11/19/2025

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CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — A Champaign shelter is inviting the community to stand in solidarity with those experiencing homelessness at an upcoming annual event. On Nov. 17, C-U at Home …

11/19/2025

We are so grateful to have Nick serving on our board at C-U at Home. His heart for the community, his leadership, and his passion for helping our neighbors make him an incredible asset to our mission!

Serving our communities is a core value at Heartland, and every day, our employees embody this value both in and outside the workplace. We are incredibly proud of Nicholas Harford, our Central IL FSOP District Sales Manager, who recently joined the board at C-U at Home. We're excited to support Nick as he makes a difference addressing homelessness in his community.

Join a team where your drive to make an impact is encouraged and celebrated. If you're ready to live a life of impact with a company that values giving back, explore career opportunities at Heartland today!

11/03/2025

Today, I drove one of our participants to Olney, Illinois, home of the White Squirrels. He was finally facing sentencing on a felony charge. He was confident he was going to be sentenced with probation. However, his felony charge was reduced to a misdemeanor and he was sentenced to conditional discharge. The judge told our participant that he got this huge break because of the hard work he has done. Then the judge told me, C-U at Home runs a great program. I'm so proud of our participant, who has genuinely worked hard for this.

11/03/2025

People experiencing homelessness lack a solid support system or social capital. Quite often, they are separated from their families, or they have no family. Worse many people experiencing homelessness have experienced trauma from their families of origin.

Many of our participants haven’t had a birthday celebration or a holiday get together.

At C-U at Home, we celebrate birthdays, celebrating 3 last night. On Thanksgiving, we are having a special meal.

No one is successful without help, we are showing our participants it’s ok to ask for help and be of help.

10/31/2025

Kara and Rebecca, members of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, share a few of the 60 quilts they and other team members made over the past year. Accepting the quilts for CU at Home are Cedar and Alex. Most of the Good Shepherd-made quilts were donated to Lutheran World Relief, which is distributing thousands of them around the globe. The Good Shepherd quilting team reserved 12 quilts for CU at Home, and we are so grateful!

10/10/2025

Today is World Homeless Day.

In Champaign-Urbana, our neighbors experiencing homelessness are more than a statistic—they’re parents, veterans, students, and friends working hard to rebuild. At C-U at Home, we walk with people on a Pathway to Progress: safe housing, support, and life-skills coaching that lead to stability and hope.

If you’ve ever wondered, “What can I do today?” here are four simple ways:

Learn — Read about trauma, barriers, and what truly helps.

Volunteer — Offer your time or skills.

Give — Become a monthly Path Builder to sustain housing and support.

Share — Spread this post so more neighbors see it.

Together, we can make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring—one person at a time. Thank you for standing with us.
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10/07/2025

Join us for C-U at Home’s Volunteer Orientation — a practical on-ramp to serving this fall.

🗓 Thu, Oct 9 • 9:30–11:00 AM
📍 Champaign Public Library — Robeson Rooms A & B
🍩 Light refreshments • 🧭 Simple next steps

We’ll share who we are, how Pathways to Progress works, and easy ways to plug in: 🚐 transportation team • 🏠 Adopt-a-House • 🙏 prayer partners • 🍂 fall spruce-ups • 🍲 much more!

URGENT NEED: Our Transportation Team (on-call drivers) is the biggest gap right now. One day a week, short rides to medical/court/work appointments = huge impact. If you can drive, we can put hope in motion. 🚗

RSVP: comment here or email aleta@cuathome.us

Can’t attend but want to drive? Email with the subject “TRANSPORTATION” and we’ll get you started.

09/29/2025

A huge THANK YOU to our friends at Meijer Store #146

Today, C-U at Home was blessed to receive a generous donation of $5,000 from the amazing Meijer team. Their support will go directly toward helping us continue our mission at C-U at Home--providing pathways to hope and healing and stability.

This gift was made possible through the Meijer Team Gives program, which empowers Meijer employees to come together and select local nonprofits to receive a share of $10,000 in charitable contributions each year. What makes it so special is that team members themselves choose organizations that matter most in their own community—and we are honored to have been chosen!

We are so grateful for community partners like Meijer who live out their commitment to making a difference right here where we live and serve.