The Dream House is a new home in Harrisburg, PA for young women who recently aged out of the foster care system or are facing homelessness.
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Individuals receive a 1-bed, 1-bath apartment with kitchen, living room, and equipped with basic furnishings. The HOME program provides support through a formal face-to-face checking in once a week, daily sign in/outs, and access to a variety of services including life skills training including meal planning, cooking, accessing transportation, budgeting, accessing services, and more.
Special Treasures is a non-profit thrift store that supports foster teens and aged-out young adults. They learn work skills such as furniture repair, furniture painting, warehouse management, stocking, salesmanship and more. Youth are mentored by volunteers and workforce development staff. They also get help with resumes, work ethics, financial management, and internships and job placement.
Pivot, Inc. is a nonprofit community organization that advocates, educates, intervenes and counsels youth and families to make a positive difference in their lives. What we do: Meet housing & basic needs, provide education & job assistance, prevention & intervention, and therapeutic care.
River Jordan Inc focuses on helping transition age foster youth become responsible and productive members of society through our Community Transitional housing program, Pre-Aging Out Foster Care Recovery Coaching, which also includes life skill training, and the best practice Fostering Success training model. (See also Foster Care Recovery Network in the AOI database.)
We Are Becoming is dedicated to serving the diverse needs of homeless and disconnected young people in the New York area. We exist to break the bondage of poverty and hopelessness. We are a catalyst for change in the trajectory of a young life.
Center for Champions helps mentors make connections with kids that need hope to discover God’s purpose for their lives. When you invest in someone, life transformation occurs in both your mentee and in you. You both find deeper purpose and community.
Excellerate is an Educational Life Skills Program that Serves Teenage Foster Care Children. Excellerate provides these young people a chance at a great life through mentoring, instruction and empowerment.
Along with housing some of the many resources another journey inc. would like to offer to include job skills support, connections to educational opportunities, discipleship, life skills classes, and faith-based mentoring.
Level 1 will introduce key concepts regarding living skills, social skills, financial responsibility, leadership and spiritual empowerment. The gift for Level 1 graduates will be a computer, Microsoft Office and virus protection software. All Level 1 students will automatically be accepted into Level 2 which will add new programming in addition to additional information on car ownership, and other repeat…