Wrap-Around Supportive Services
Families in Transition recognizes that housing is a basic need in which each family and/or single adult needs when arriving at our doorstep. However, even more importantly, is the greater need to receive comprehensive supportive services that provide a window into the root causes of their homelessness. As each participant enters the program, he/she receives wrap around supportive services that focus on addressing the barriers and issues that can make it difficult to maintain housing. Breaking the cycle of homelessness for each family, child and adult is imperative and the means to do this is by providing intensive individualized case management, individual and group therapy and educational workshops. Each participant identifies his or her personal case plan goals including employment/education, health, mental health, parenting, financial management and housing. As the participant works on each goal, the team of support being provided by his or her Master Level therapist and treatment coordinator guide him or her through each obstacle that may arise and accomplish each goal to begin to reach emotional and economic self-sufficiency.
The educational workshops offered address some of the following topics: budgeting, cooking, self-esteem, physical wellness, living with mental illness, trauma-issues, addiction and recovery, parenting and much more. Each of these workshops bring an advanced look at many of the areas that lead to each of these participants becoming homeless. In addition, there is specific youth programming offered to the children of Families in Transition, including an after-school program for homework assistance, summer and school vacation activities/events and girls and boys groups.
Each of these components of the supportive services provided at Families in Transition, in addition to the quality, safe and affordable housing offered to each participant, create an environment of support and possibilities for each participant leaving homelessness and working toward a stable and supportive life for themselves and their children.
