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Homeless Prevention Services
Families Forward offers a comprehensive array of services targeting families who are at-risk of becoming homeless. Supportive services include:
Job Launch Workshops
Are you having trouble finding a job that will pay your bills? Our Career Coach can help! Families Forward offers free "Job Launch" workshops to help you develop the latest job search skills and strategies for this ever-changing market. The workshops are free and open to job seekers of any age. They cover crucial points of the search, from resume writing to salary negotiating, and incorporate key strategies and tips for becoming competitive and reaching your goal.
Food Pantry
When a family doesn't have enough food - the most basic human need - stability in other areas is impossible. At Families Forward, we provide families with food and basic toiletries, helping them to cover other monthly costs, getting them through a short period of time to bridge the gap between dependence and self-sufficiency.
Life-skills counseling
At-risk families may receive counseling and case management services for up to six months, working to increase life-skills in areas such as parenting, budgeting, communicating, stress management, debt reduction, and job retention.
Referral Services
Families Forward works with a network of agencies to provide resources or services not available at our agency.
Transitional Housing
The Transitional Housing Program, which utilizes 26 homes located throughout the community, provides families with housing, allowing parents to focus on their work with case managers to improve life skills and achieve career advancement through one on one career counseling, so that they can break free from the cycle of poverty. Because there is no one size fits all solution to family homelessness, this program offers a comprehensive array of services that address their unique needs. Families work one on one with masters-level case managers to develop individualized plans with specific goals and steps guiding each family towards self-sufficiency.
Rapid Re-Housing
Rapid Re-Housing provides families with a chance to regain self-sufficiency when they have lost their home due to an eviction or a change in income. Through partnerships with local apartment communities, families are placed in affordable apartments where the rent is paid in gradually increasing increments, allowing them time to slowly return to market rate rent. Other supportive services available to families in this program include counseling, food, and career coaching.
Seasonal Programs
Back-to-School
This program supports dignity and self-confidence by providing at-risk children with new backpacks and required school supplies enabling them to enjoy that "new crayon smell" along with their peers on the first day of the school year.
Holiday Programs
Imagine how parents must feel when they cannot give their child a holiday meal, tree or even a gift. To help families have brighter holidays, Families Forward and caring donors provide families with special festive food baskets through the Thanksgiving Program and thoughtful, personalized holiday gifts through the Adopt-a-Family Program.
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