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. 90% 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.