At The Road Home, we believe that every child deserves a home. Because of that, we work with families with children to help them find and maintain homes. A key ingredient in our success is our supportive services. 95% of families in our programs—all of whom receive supportive services, remain in stably housed after one year. We offer a variety of services at levels that meet each family’s needs. These services help families not only address the immediate crisis of homelessness but also set and obtain self-selected goals, overcome barriers, build skills, and access resources that set the stage for long-term success.
Our supportive services include:
Housing Advocacy/Case Management: Housing Advocates (case managers) meet regularly with families in all of our programs. With the help of a housing advocate, each family selects goals and sets a plan to achieve them. Meetings cover a range of topics including employment, education, mental and physical health, relationship building and securing basic needs such as food, clothing and transportation.
Skill-Building: We offer skill-building opportunities at our building for interested families in our programs. Topics might include putting together a resume, budgeting or nutrition. Child care is provided.
Other Wrap-Around Services: We offer other services and supportive activities that help families become stable, independent and successful. These include education support, screening and assessments, diagnostic evaluations, health and medication monitoring, individual and/or family psychoeducation and psychotherapy, as well as substance abuse treatment. The Road Home also partners with a local therapy provider for families that need assistance with mental health and/or AODA services and are referred by their housing advocate.
We also provide supportive services for partner programs. One of these partner programs is Healing House, a recuperative care facility for homeless families, the first of its kind in our community. It provides a safe place for families when someone needs to prepare for or recover from a medical procedure, childbirth, hospitalization or something similar. More than just a shelter, Healing House offers care by medically trained staff and volunteers for up to 28 days. The eight-bed facility provides clients with three meals a day, child care assistance and case management. Healing House is administered through JustDane with case management provided by The Road Home.