For clients needing assistance, call 618-416-4538 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm.

This is the heart of Beacon’s ministry. Assists individuals and families in times of financial crisis. Helps callers make a plan for handling immediate crisis and connections to other needed community services including job placement, food, and clothing.
 

Beacon is working with others to find solutions for those experiencing homelessness in the Belleville area.
We have joined in partnership with The Sanctuary, a daytime drop-in center serving those experiencing homelessness.  Through this partnership, we are building relationships that hopefully will result in changed lives that can assimilate back into society and a permanent home.
We will soon begin providing financial literacy training to help those receiving fixed incomes to better manage limited resources.  Financial literacy training sessions, dealing with various aspects

of money and life management, will be held at The Salvation Army Corps Center,
20 Glory Place, Belleville, IL between 11 a.m. and noon on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month, led by student interns from SIUE working with TOCO and BEACON.

BEACON is making changes to the operation of our furniture ministry, listed below:
 

1. Our service area will continue to be limited to the cities of Belleville, Swansea, Shiloh, Fairview Heights, O’Fallon, and Caseyville.  Due to demand, we will not accept clients from outside these six communities even if referred.  There must be an exigent need (coming out of a homeless situation, fire, domestic violence, etc.).

2. Clients must be working with a case manager or pastor with whom the need can be verified.  BEACON will ask clients for a contact person.  If they cannot provide the name of a specific person at your agency or church, the request will be denied.  After referral, the client will call BEACON, at which point an application will be made.

3. BEACON will call the case manager/pastor identified for verification. If they cannot verify the client, the application will be denied.

4. Clients will need to provide the following pieces of documentation:

             -copy of driver’s license or official I.D. issued by the state
             -a copy of the occupancy permit listing all occupants (public housing for senior citizens will not have this available, in which case the requirement for a permit will be waived).  All present occupants must be verified.

5. Clients are limited to four items of furniture.  We will also provide some basic housewares if needed.

6. Due to a lack of volunteers, we are unable to do pickups and deliveries.  Clients will need to have their own means of picking up the furniture at our warehouse in downtown Belleville.  The address will be given when the application is approved.

Beacon seeks donations of furniture in good condition to distribute to families in need, based on inventory in stock.
NOTE: Beds are generally twin or full size. We rarely have any queen size beds.
We also cannot guarantee the availability of bed frames.
 

For the time being, furniture recipients will need to come to the warehouse to pick up their items.

Donations can be delivered to Beacon’s furniture warehouse by appointment.

WE ARE IN SERIOUS NEED OF 
VOLUNTEER HELP TO EXPAND OUR SERVICES. 
Many of our clients cannot come to the warehouse
to pick up their needed items, or to bring donated furniture.