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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:
Career Coaching
Career coaching is a unique service offered at Families Forward to help individuals increase their financial stability through job acquisition or improving their earning potential. Career Coaches assist clients in gaining working knowledge of practical and effective job skills to support families in gaining financial independence.
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, 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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