Leading Families Home is proud to announce the opening of Beach House Ashland! Our newly renovated Shelter will allow us to serve up to 75 additional individuals transitioning from homelessness to permanent housing in northwest Ohio.


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History & Significance

For over 100 years, Leading Families Home has been a leader in helping those transitioning from homelessness to permanent housing in Lucas County. In 2023, we will open our Beach House Ashland facility to serve up to 75 additional individuals. Learn More >>

Adopt-a-Room Sponsorships

Our overflow emergency family shelter, Beach House Ashland, is open! We opened in June 2023, but we still need your help. If you'd love to help us serve up to 75 individuals facing homelessness, please consider sponsoring a room! Learn More >>

Adopt-a-Brick

Adopt-a-Brick to honor your family, create a legacy, or remember a loved one. Corporate sponsorships are also available! Bricks may be engraved with a name, message, or logo. Engraved bricks will be located at Beach House Ashland. Learn More >>

HISTORY & SIGNIFICANCE

Beach House Ashland is part of Leading Families Home. The building was acquired in 2016 as part of the merger between Beach House Family Shelter and F.O.C.U.S. Since this time, the facility has been utilized as administrative space for Leading Families Home.


Once a nursing home facility, Beach House Ashland offers a generous amount of individual rooms. In 2020, Leading Families Home started renovations on this facility to create an additional overflow emergency family shelter for those facing homelessness in Lucas County.


Currently, the list of families seeking emergency shelter is over 190 individuals with an unknown number of children. Beach House Ashland opened in June 2023, and can house up to 75 individuals. This facility will allow us to serve 3x more individuals in addition to those served at Beach House Family Shelter on Erie St., but we can't do it without your help.

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Contact Us

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2283 Ashland Ave.

Toledo, OH 43620

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ADOPT-A-ROOM SPONSORSHIPS

Starting in 2023, Leading Families Home is holding an Adopt-a-Room Sponsorship Campaign to help fund Beach House Ashland. Will you give a gift to help us provide more beds and services in northwest Ohio for those experiencing homelessness?


Please scroll through the rooms below to see inside Beach House Ashland and learn more about the details of each room in this facility.


If you're interested in sponsoring a room, please click the button on the appropriate room below. You may also mail checks to: Leading Families Home, 2283 Ashland Ave., Toledo, OH 43620. Please note that your donation is for Beach House Ashland.

Bathrooms

Beach House Ashland (BHA) has six bathrooms. Our bathrooms require toilets, baths, storage, mirrors, bath mats, and more. We will also need paper and cleaning products, towels, soap, and shower curtains on an ongoing basis.


Bathrooms will be used for visitors and Participants who are housed at BHA while transitioning from homelessness to permanent housing.


To sponsor a bathroom, please donate $500.


Bathroom Sponsors: 

  • Megan Simmons & Tim Reeder
  • Pamela Rupp
  • Daniel Kory & Elaine Canning
  • 419Cares
  • Lewis Smith III

Sponsor Bathroom

Bedrooms

Beach House Ashland (BHA) has eighteen bedrooms. Our bedrooms require beds, cribs, storage, rugs, artwork, and more. We will also need bedding, pillows, hangers, and hand sanitizer on an ongoing basis.


Bedrooms will house Participants at BHA while they transition from homelessness to permanent housing.


To sponsor a bedroom, please donate $1,000.


Bedroom Sponsors: 

  • Valerie & Peter Garforth
  • Megan Simmons & Tim Reeder
  • Cindy & Ed Palmatier & Family and Caterpillar Inc.
  • Janet & Clint Spevak
  • Shrader Oil & Tire
  • Signature Bank, N.A.
  • Mary Flores
  • Paula Mayes
  • Bob & Diane Doyle
  • Savage Family Foundation
  • Daniel Kory & Elaine Canning
  • Richard & Sylvia Goeke
  • Amazing Budz
  • Toledo Night Market
  • Hope Lutheran Church

Sponsor Bedroom

Bike Racks & Installation

We hope to install two bike racks outside of Beach House Ashland. These bike racks will allow our visitors and Participants to store their bikes in a safe and convenient way.


To ensure the safety of the bike racks, we are required to install cement foundations as well as fences around the perimeter of the bike racks.


To sponsor a bike rack and installation, please donate $2,500.

Sponsor Bike Rack

Kids' Playroom

We will have one kids' playroom at Beach House Ashland. This playroom requires storage, shelving, floor mats, seating, books, and sensory toys. We will also need books, toys, and hand sanitizer on an ongoing basis.


This playroom will give our kids a safe and stimulating room to play and relax as their families transition from homelessness to permanent housing. 


Sponsored by Jill & Ron Ranallo

Sponsor Kids' Playroom

Computer Room

We will have one computer room at Beach House Ashland. This room requires computers, a printer, shelving, storage, desks, chairs, and accessories. We will also need computer mice, mousepads, and hand sanitizer on an ongoing basis.


The computer room will allow our Participants an area to virtually attend education classes, perform research, search and apply for jobs, sign up for resources, and more. 


To sponsor our computer room, please donate $5,000.

Sponsor Computer Room

Laundry Rooms

Beach House Ashland contains four laundry rooms. These rooms require industrial-strength washers and dryers, a folding table, as well as storage and shelving. We will also need laundry detergent, dryer sheets, and laundry baskets on an ongoing basis.


The laundry rooms allow our Participants to keep their clothing clean as they transition from homelessness to permanent housing.


To sponsor a laundry room, please donate $10,000.

Sponsor Laundry Room

Cafeteria

There is one cafeteria next to the kitchen in Beach House Ashland. The cafeteria requires tables, chairs, dinnerware, flatware, serviceware, trays, and more.  


We will serve meals to our Participants in our cafeteria once Beach House Ashland opens.


To sponsor our cafeteria, please donate $10,000.

Sponsor Cafeteria

Kitchen

The kitchen in Beach House Ashland requires commercial-grade stoves, ovens, refrigerators, freezers, pots, pans, plexiglass barriers, and more. To ensure the kitchen functions properly, much work needs to be done on plumbing and electrical lines. 


To sponsor our kitchen, please donate $30,000.

Sponsor Kitchen

ADOPT-A-BRICK

Help us pave the way to a better future for families facing homelessness in Lucas County!


Adopt-a-Brick at Beach House Ashland, our second emergency family shelter in Toledo, OH. Be part of an exciting and unique way to support our shelter!

Adopt-a-Brick to honor your family, create a legacy, or remember a loved one. Corporate sponsorships are also available! Bricks may be engraved with a name, message, or logo.


Engraved bricks will be located at Beach House Ashland.


The cost of each brick is $100.


Click the button below to donate online or mail a check to

Leading Families Home, 2283 Ashland Ave., Toledo, OH 43620.

ADOPT-A-BRICK

    • BEACH HOUSE II CONSTRUCTION

    Check out several short videos of the construction progress at Beach House Ashland.


    Construction has begun on the building as an overflow emergency family shelter, and we anticipate opening the second quarter of 2023.

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