Foundation for the Homeless, Inc. (IHN program)

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Affiliation: Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) Updated Sep 21, 2011
Case Management, * (Providers of ANY Type of Case Management) Updated Sep 21, 2011
Demographic Served: Homeless Updated Sep 21, 2011
Housing, Transitional Housing Updated Sep 21, 2011
Shelter * (ANY/ALL Types) Updated Sep 21, 2011
Training Classes, Life Skills, Misc. Updated Sep 21, 2011
Volunteer Opportunities, In General * (ANY/ALL Types) Updated Sep 21, 2011

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About this facility

Mission: from website: The mission of the Foundation for the Homeless, Inc., is to mobilize the resources of the community of faith to alleviate homelessness in the spirit of compassion, hope, and love. For over 20 years, Foundation for the Homeless, Inc. (FFH), has worked to organize resources from the faith communities to alleviate the suffering of homeless people in Austin, Texas. FFH assists people in their work toward a self-sufficient lifestyle. FFH carries out its work by building relationships between thousands of volunteers from local faith communities and homeless families with children.
Service: Temporary

Notes

PROGRAMS - (SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS)
* Family Promise
* Feed My People
* Passages
* Housing First
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Family Promise

Family Promise / Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) is a shelter program based on a national model that provides transitional shelter for families experiencing homelessness. Host churches, synagogues and support congregations work in collaboration to provide year round shelter, meals, and support to families as they work toward achieving goals of permanent housing and self-sufficiency.
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Feed My People

The Feed My People Program is a collaboration of 11 religious congregations in the Austin community that provide the facilities, volunteers, and donations necessary to serve the guests. The Feed My People Program provides a morning meal twice a week with services including showers, haircuts, hygiene articles, clothing, eyeglass referrals, and assistance with birth certificates and identification cards. Breakfast and services are provided at First United Methodist Church, Family Life Center at 1300 Lavaca Street.
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Passages

Full time case management is provided for families in the Family Promise/IHN program as part of a six-agency collaboration funded by The US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Professional case managers assist families with the following issues: housing, employment, job training, education, childcare, counseling, legal issues and many other needs. Case managers work with the Passages partner agencies, as well as the community at large, to ensure that each family successfully moves toward self-sufficiency.
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Housing First

"Housing First" refers to programs or approaches that aim to reduce the length of time that households spend being homeless or in shelter and prevent homelessness for at risk populations such as "doubled-up" families with children.

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Foundation for the Homeless' Housing First Collaborations

During 2009 and 2010, Foundation for the Homeless became a working partner in several new "Housing First" collaborations. These collaborations are aimed at keeping persons at 50% of the Median Family Income for Austin housed and rapidly re-housing those who do become homeless in fair market permanent housing, using a combination of short-term or shallow subsidies, case management and a housing locator:

1. The City of Austin's Rapid Re-Housing Demonstration Project (RRDP)
2. The Austin Travis County Housing Stability Collaboration Demonstration Project
3. The Right At Home Pilot Project

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DONATE -
http://foundationhomeless.org/donate.php

also:
Donate to FFH just by grocery-shopping at Randall's! Simply give the cashier your Remarkable Card, along with FFH's number of 11662 before your groceries are scanned, and we receive a quarterly donation for a percentage of the total purchases made.