rebuilding lives
Transitioning Families Back To Independence.
What is MCREST?
Together, We Lift Lives Toward Independence
For more than 35 years, MCREST has provided men, women, and children experiencing homelessness with a safe place to stay and the personalized support needed to rebuild their lives. Through comprehensive case management, life-skills coaching, employment and housing assistance, and our Learning & Resource Center, we help guests overcome the barriers that lead to homelessness and achieve long-term stability.
Our vision is a compassionate community where every person—regardless of circumstance—has access to the resources, dignity, and opportunity to begin again. As Macomb County’s leading point of entry for individuals and families in crisis, MCREST continues to walk beside our guests on their journey from homelessness to hope.
Stories of Survival
Behind every statistic about homelessness is a human being—a parent, a worker, a neighbor—facing a crisis they never expected. The numbers don’t show the stroke that stole a career, the family fleeing addiction, the mother fighting to keep her children, or the man who lost everything and still refused to give up.
These stories remind us that homelessness is not their problem—it is a human problem, and any one of us could find ourselves in the same place with one twist of fate. Stories of Survival lifts up the voices behind the numbers, honoring their courage, their pain, and their unbreakable will to rebuild.
