The Matthews House
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Mission Statement
The Matthews House aims to help clients break cycles of generational poverty and abuse, to diminish the occurrence of child maltreatment, and to keep families intact in order to prevent children and youth from entering the foster care system. We aim to prevent youth and families from becoming part of human service and justice systems. Our overarching goal is to ensure that youth, families and the greater community have the skills and support system needed to transition successfully to self-sufficiency and economic stability in order to become contributors of the community.
About This Cause
The Matthews House serves at-risk youth, families and community members, providing a wide range of services to meet the specific needs of each client. Many of our clients have been involved with the human services, foster care or justice systems. The Matthews House is effective because of our holistic approach to case management and service for our clients; we address the root cause of the problems our clients face, not just the symptoms. Our core values help us to tackle community needs in a meaningful way, not in a cookie cutter way like most organizations. We individualize and personalize services for each client because we understand that each person is unique and we must recognize their differences to best assist them in becoming self-sufficient and economically stable. We approach our work from a strengths based perspective and all goals within an independent living plan are youth and family driven. We are relationship focused and future oriented in helping move clients from crisis to thriving. We strategically break down barriers that often prevent youth and families from becoming successful. This includes providing childcare while parents further their education and skill sets, and transportation for youth and families who need assistance getting to school, work and necessary appointments. We also keep our prevention programs and community based locations open on Saturdays, which provide a “one stop shop" for youth and families to access all of the resources they may need. Our multi-service organization delivers holistic intervention and prevention services to best serve our community. Through community needs assessments, we have identified gaps in services in our community and have built our organization to meet those needs. All programs include Transition Facilitation (case management), One-to-One Mentoring/Family Coaching, Experiential Educational Activities, Leadership Development, Social Activities, After School Academic and Non-Academic Activities, Early Childhood Activities and Learning Opportunities for children 0-8, and Parenting Classes.