SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA
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Mission Statement
Save the Family equips families to address poverty, overcome homelessness, and achieve self-sufficiency. Through housing and targeted services, we are helping to end the damaging effects of family homelessness and poverty. Families need more than safe housing to conquer homelessness. They also need the skills and confidence to lead productive, self-sufficient lives. In addition to providing three distinct housing programs for homeless families, we also provide programs for adults, youth, and children, including: 1) parenting skills, personal development classes, and support for victims of domestic violence 2) career development, literacy support, and financial education 3) dental, vision, medical and legal services 4) tutoring, after-school and summer programs, and camps and activities for youth
About This Cause
To help families overcome homelessness, poverty, abuse and trauma, Save the Family provides the Homeless Families Intervention Project (HFIP). HFIP includes housing, case management, and supportive services for both adults and children. Housing: Homeless families are provided a housing intervention to best serve their individualized needs and could include one of the following housing programs: 1) Transitional Housing - This program is designed for homeless families that need more intensive case coordination services due to domestic violence, substance abuse, and/or mental health issues. Families in this program often need to learn basic life skills, address mental health and substance abuse, and overcome trauma prior to entering Rapid Rehousing or permanent housing. 2) Rapid Rehousing - This program provides financial support through stepped down rental assistance, utility deposits, and rental application fees. Financial support is scaled back over time as the family secures employment and is capable of paying the full rent without support. 3) Step Up to Independence (Step Up Housing) - Our newest program provides working poor, homeless families (i.e. doubled up, living in their cars, couch surfing) with 12-24 months of housing to help them stabilize, focus on savings, and build financial independence. Families are referred by school district homeless liaisons. Case Management: Once the family is housed, parent(s) meet a case manager to help identify and address goals to ensure their long-term housing and financial stability. Case managers follow best practice case management models (e.g. Critical Time Intervention, Progressive Engagement, Trauma Informed Care and Motivational Interviewing) aimed at preventing recurrent homelessness. Supportive Services: Services help ensure families can break cycles of homelessness and poverty. All families housed in the three housing programs listed above, as well as families living in ARM of Save the Family’s affordable housing, have access to services. 1) Career development services include career center, coaching, job-finding assistance, job-readiness workshops, budgeting workshops, financial coaching, clothing/shoes, tools, and transportation assistance. 2) Parent support services include life-skills, budgeting, parenting, and domestic violence/trauma healing classes and support groups, landlord-tenant relations, family planning, wellness, nutrition and food budgeting, and legal services. 3) Children’s programs include drop-in childcare for infants-five year olds, and after-school/summer programming for school-aged children. Timeline: Months 1-4 (Transition to our program from emergency shelter) include meeting with a Case Manager, ensuring the children are connected to school and/or daycare, and accessing on-site career development services, classes to improve budgeting and financial literacy, parenting, life-skills, relationship skills, and children’s programs. The Case Manager helps the parent(s) identify focus areas including securing income, setting and following a budget, addressing legal issues, and accessing substance abuse and/or mental health treatment. Months 4-7 (Tryout Phase) include following up with the family to ensure links to our services are working. The Case Manager aids the family in accessing additional community services and facilitating initial appointments as needed. The majority of families achieve employment, income and housing goals during the 6th month. Months 7-10 (Transfer of Care) focus on gradually stepping back from the intensive case management support provided in the initial months. This process ensures that the program end does not come as a sudden, potentially traumatic, loss to the family but is instead a soft transition to self-sufficiency.