...for Women and Children -- and Men with mental and/or physical disabilities
Housing Renewal for
Women and Children
Thanks to special funding received, for over two years Crossroads has been placing women and children into safe, affordable, permanent housing -- now with a 90% plus success rate of women and children being stable and remaining housed where originally placed for six months and longer.
- Over the past two years Crossroads has helped over 110 women and children move from homelessness into a safe, affordable, permanent apartment -- currently all are private apartments, Crossroads does not currently utilize HUD funding to support its housing solutions for women and children.
- Basline criteria for each woman in the Housing Solutions Program is that she must have employment or other regular income.
- Crossroads also assists the women and children in the Housing Solutions Program by helping them secure basic furnishings and essentials for their new home.
- Through lessons learned, Crossroads knows that simply placing women earning minimum wage into affordable housing is not the complete solutions. In the absence of living-wage income -- the women and their families will forever struggle. Again -- thanks to special funding -- Crossroads helps the women with tuition for specialized training and online courses, computers to enable them to take online courses, etc.
- Ideally participation in the program is intended to be two to three years. An Individual Service Plan (ISP), ongoing Case Management and as-needed Supportive Services help each woman move toward achieving her specific goals.
Dominic Heard, Director
Housing Renewal
for Women and Children
dominic@crossroadsatlanta.org
In October 2011 Crossroads launched its newest housing solutions program -- the priority program goals are to:
- Help participants obtain and remain in permanent housing.
- Help participants increase skills and/or income, and
- Help participants achieve greater self-determination.
Please check our website regularly for program updates.
Emily McIver, LCSW, Director
Disabilities Services and
Angels Permanent Supportive Housing
emily@crossroadsatlanta.org
Volunteers / Sponsors are needed for both the Housing Renewal program for women and children -- and also for the Angels Permanent Supportive Housing program for chronically homeless men with a physical and/or mental disability. To learn more about being a Volunteer or Sponsor -- please email:
HousingVolunteers@crossroadsatlanta.org
