Trinity Group Homes nominated for award

COEUR d'ALENE - Trinity Group Homes of Coeur d'Alene was nominated among more than 100 organizations across Idaho for the Idaho Nonprofit Center's Excellence Award.

"We know that nonprofits make a difference in communities across Idaho every day and these awards recognize the contribution of the nonprofit sector," said Janice Fulkerson, executive director of the Idaho Nonprofit Center. "We continued to be impressed with the many moving stories in the 2015 nominations and are extremely proud of the nonprofits and what their contributions are to the quality of life in Idaho."

Trinity Group Homes, Inc. is honored to be one of the organizations nominated in the statewide program. The Idaho Nonprofit Center will recognize all nominees at the Nonprofit Excellence Awards Dinner on Sept. 15 during the Idaho Nonprofit Center's annual conference in Boise, where six of the organizations will be honored with the 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Award.

Awards will be given to small and large nonprofits in three geographic areas of Idaho.

Trinity Group Homes' mission is to ensure adults with a severe and persistent mental illness have safe affordable housing in a supportive environment.

"Our mission is to provide caring, community-supported housing for adults with mental illness with programs that teach life skills to our residents," the nonprofit said in a press release. "Within the last 18 months, we have increased our capacity from 18 beds for residents to 33 beds, an 84 percent increase in capacity."

Since 1998, 83 percent of all of Trinity's residents have succeeded in remaining at Trinity or moving to totally independent living and some of them have been able to resume employment. Trinity operates at no cost to the taxpayers and receives no local, state, or federal funds.