MONROE HARDING INC
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Mission Statement
We ensure that foster care youth and other vulnerable young people build a solid foundation of strengths that position them for success in adulthood.
About This Cause
Monroe Harding holds a rich, 128-year history. In 1893, Mrs. Fannie E. Harding generously donated her twelve-room residence and five acres in Nashville to help orphaned children of Middle Tennessee. Mrs. Harding’s donation is a memorial to her late husband, Dr. James Monroe Harding. In 1934, under the astute leadership of William Dunn Trabue, funds were raised at the height of the Great Depression to purchase land for Monroe Harding to move to a 23-plus acre suburban tract on Glendale Lane. The Glendale Lane campus was home to Monroe Harding until April 2019, when the organization’s headquarters moved to its current location on Vantage Way in the Metro Center area of Nashville. Monroe Harding's operational framework integrates positive youth development, trauma and resiliency informed care, and evidence-based practices. This framework helps children and young adults develop resilience, replace maladaptive coping mechanisms with new skills, and connect with supportive resources that enhance protective factors and improve life trajectory. We operate under the belief that all young people are inherently resourceful and resilient. We work to be responsive to the needs of children and young adults in our community. Recognizing that Opportunity Youth experience many of the same challenges as those in foster care, we expanded services to this vulnerable population in 2019. Monroe Harding utilizes four key strategies to empower the young people we serve to make meaningful changes in their lives: 1. Homes – We foster safe, nurturing homes through supportive family environments. 2. Healing – We mitigate the effects of abuse and neglect by creating a trauma-informed, healing community. 3. Opportunities – We offer young adults’ opportunities through experiences, education, life skill-building, reengagement, and employment preparedness and career development. 4. Engagement - We engage with supportive adult volunteers and community partners to maximize our impact in the areas of home, healing, and opportunities. The organization’s team of social service professionals, volunteers, and community partners step in as a family, providing resources for Homes, Healing, and Opportunities—what we call the “H2O” that we believe is vital to helping young people succeed. To that proven formula, Monroe Harding adds the elements of Engagement and Advocacy, which serve as catalysts to propel service recipients into self-determined futures. FOSTER CARE Established in 2009 (Residential Services, Inc. (RSI) Acquisition began in 1976); serving ages Birth -19 years old in Foster Care homes and 19-21 in Extension of Foster Care (EFC) services. Monroe Harding’s Foster Care program recruits, trains, and supports foster parents who open their homes to children, teens, and sibling groups for loving and safe care. Foster Care’s ultimate goal is to help children and teens achieve reunification with birth families, placement with relatives/kin, or adoption into new forever families. SUPPORTIVE HOUSING Independent Living Established in 1992; serving ages 18-21. Monroe Harding’s Independent Living program provides 26 affordable and safe apartments with a caring adult staff. We create a supportive community for young adults who aged out of foster care. Monroe Harding helps these young adults transition toward independence by emphasizing continued education and/or employment; assisting with transportation and food support; social, emotional, and life skills training; and, connections to community resources. Victims of Crime (VOCA) Established in 2006; serving ages 16-24. In 2018, Monroe Harding received a federal VOCA (Victims of Crime Act) grant to expand the agency’s supportive housing services to young adults victimized by crime who are not required to have any association, past or present, with the child welfare system. YOUTH CONNECTIONS RESOURCE CENTER (YC) Established 2006; serving ages 16-26. Monroe Harding’s young adult resource center is located in downtown Nashville. YC is a drop-in center that serves young adults currently or previously in foster care, as well as other vulnerable young adults. YC is one of only four designated community resource centers for current and former foster youth in the state of TN. YC offers employment preparedness and career development, secondary and post-secondary education support, financial education and a matched savings program, basic needs assistance, and various life skills classes including sexual health education. Monroe Harding recently added two new programs at YC: Works Wonders® and the Opportunity Now Re-engagement Hub at Monroe Harding. Works Wonders® Established in 2020; serving ages 16-26. Works Wonders® is an evidence-informed, career development and employment engagement program that provides 12 to 16 hours of skills-based training; 12 weeks of one-on-one career coaching; and paid, work-based learning opportunities. Works Wonders’ prepares young adults to successfully transition to the adult world of work by actively engaging in career development activities, identifying and minimizing barriers to success, and by building teamwork, active listening skills and conflict resolution skills. Works Wonders® won the 2018 Innovations in American Government Award from the Kennedy School at Harvard University. The program is open to all vulnerable young adults 16 to 26, including those in foster care and those who have aged out. Opportunity Now Reengagement Hub Established in 2019; serving ages 17-24. Youth Connections is home to one of two reengagement hubs for young adults in the Nashville area who experienced traumatic crime-victimization. The purpose of our hub is to provide collaborative, community-based support in education and employment. The Opportunity Now Reengagement Hub at Monroe Harding helps young adult crime survivors, who are disengaged from school and work, become re-engaged in the pursuit of their personal educational and vocational goals. CLINICAL EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT Established in 2009; serving ages 16-26. Monroe Harding understands that changing our young peoples’ lives for the better begins with helping them identify past traumas and the impacts of those traumatic experiences on their lives. Through our Clinical Emotional and Mental Health Support, we mitigate the effects of abuse and neglect by creating a trauma-informed, healing community. Our clinician partners and qualified staff use assessment results, clients’ self-reports, and their professional observations to determine where clients are emotionally when they enter the program, how they progress while receiving services, and where they are at the termination of services. Treatment plans and clinical interventions are individualized, to help clients move from where they are to where they want to be in their lives. Treatment modalities may include individual, family, and/or group counseling; psychotropic medication evaluation, monitoring, and treatment; support/recovery group participation; psycho-educational group/classes; engagement with volunteer support persons, such as mentors; etc. Ultimately, by changing the lives of individual service recipients, Monroe Harding can achieve meaningful systemic, community, and social change.