About Us
Since our launch in 2023, the team at Blessings Beyond Supportive Housing has worked tirelessly to promote our cause. We are fortunate to have volunteers and staff from all walks of life who bring their unique expertise and resources into everything we do. This is what enables us to achieve our goals year after year.
While there is always more that can be done, there is no doubt that we are making a significant impact. We don’t measure our success through just facts and figures, but through happy faces and heartwarming feedback. See how you can become part of the difference.
Our
Vision
To raise awareness on advocacy and coordination of community partnerships to prevent, reduce and ultimately end homelessness. We achieve this by providing financial principles, caring, safe & stable housing, and supportive services to the homeless or risk-of-homelessness.
To significantly reduce homelessness by inspiring and empowering people: ex-offenders returning home from prison, veterans, the homeless or who suffer from substance abuse and mental health challenges. Through the implementation of evidence-based strategies, we disrupt negative patterns, create new visions, build self-esteem and develop sustainable life skills
Our
Mission
Meet the Founder
Founder/CEO
Darell Clark-Edwards
I, Darell Clark-Edwards founder and CEO of Blessings Beyond Supportive Housing NFP. Born in Chicago Il in the Cabrini O Green Projects with crime on the rise my family moved to Humboldt Park an area on the westside to pursue a better life . becoming of youth age, I fell into the trap of a gang lifestyle in that course of my life I’ve became a felon due to poor choices I made in while living the lifestyle of a gang member I’ve been shot multiples stabbed hit by cars ran over as well, I decided to change my life. I attended Lincoln Challenge Academy of Juvenile boot camp and completed a 22-week course where I received true course correct which changed my life. I became a carpenter by trade at the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters Apprentice and Training Program. After my third year of the apprentice program, I obtained a CDL license. I started off at Paige Bus Enterprise and then graduated to Megabus. In the 6 ½ years I spent there with them opened my mind and value to life. I currently work for Ardagh Glass Group where I make glass bottles. Looking back on my trials and tribulations it was that second chance at life and I made the best of it. I am giving back with help to the less fortunate and those who have made mistakes. If you have a second chance at life, take it… I did
