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(Life Instructions For Today) Homeless Stastistics
L.I.F.T. Proposed Residential Living and Non-residential Living Client Program The following detailed outline projects our intent to address Continuum of Care. This outline of Continuum of Care is known as L.I.F.T. Within this outline, you will find programs that would address the Residential Clients that live at the center and Non-Residential Clients (not homeless but needing resources). Offering these programs to both would increase success rates for both RC and NRC in homeless prevention. Within this program, we also recognize that the objective of the Case Manager is crucial to the success of the clients involved. A description of case management is at the end of this outline as “Exhibit A”.
Emergency Living Center- Step 1 These are some of the areas that clients are evaluated. Enabling case manager to find out to what extent help is needed: All clients eligible for ELP are describe as: Individuals • Families with or without children • Unaccompanied Youth
Temporary Living Center - Step2 This is a 1-year program. Continuum of Care is reinforced in the programs implemented in this stage of temporary living. This program is referred to as LRP (Life Redevelopment Program). Within this housing program, clients are working on the transition from emergency living to temporary housing. Objective of the LRP is to develop skills, redevelop skills or enhance skills for success. Work programs are available for developing job skills within the center along with working outside of the center on their own as an option. Counseling for direction or personal objectives, along with case management to keep accountability within the program is mandatory. Administered within this program is a Faith-based curriculum. LRP objective are begin development or enhancement in these areas:
Transitional Living Center - Step3 This program, known as SLP (Stabilized Living Program), is for 6 month to 1 year with the ability to re-enter up to 6 more months. An eighteen-month cap will be enforced to ensure the reduction of abuse in the programs. Its curriculum is designed for individuals, unaccompanied youth, and families with or without children who have progressed in the LRP enabling them to work regular jobs and be self-supportive in an area of living with case management oversight. The Case Manager would then administer a financial budget with guidelines allowing for a savings program that would result in monitored monies to re-enter into the community stabilized with a higher success rate, eventually resulting in off campus living with a support line to the center for accountability and success for up to one year. This would be at the current evaluating case managers advise. SLP will consist of continuation of skills training, on or off campus living, continued use of resources, and case management. Executive Offices
Counseling Center Would give us the ability to offer guidance and resources to the RC and NRC with volunteer or paid Counselors to ensure clients emotional stability and to increase their ability to succeed in the programs. Education Gives us the ability to offer components that provide educational programs or activities to improve basic skills or otherwise improve employability. Programs would include Adult Basic Education (ABE), basic literacy, English as a Second Language (ESL), high school equivalency (GED) and post–secondary education. A post secondary education component is one whose purpose is academic and whose curriculum is designed primarily for students who are beyond the compulsory age for high school. Life Skills Training Program
Community Projects The ability to find ways to give back to the community to help raise the quality of life in the perspective community that they will be living in the future:
Medical and Dental Facilities Services would be administered as follows:
Recreational & Activity Programs
Nutritional Facilities
Resource and Donation Center Increases the ability for sufficient storage area handling supplies and resources. The following resources would be available for clients that are Residential and Non-residential based on their evaluated needs.
Work Program A work component designed to improve the employability of participants through actual work experience and/or training and to enable them to move
Transportation Program Moving Clients in and around the campus for expedition of programs would be primary usage.
Maintenance Program Our maintenance program would be capable of ensuring a clean and safe environment at the center for enhancing an atmosphere of hope. Also it would provide for the maintenance to the Center while utilizing and training clients involved in life skills. This would increase job skills and help provide them a way of making a living. This program would also include a paid qualified staff member to ensure quality and professional results along with the ability to train clients for success. The program would include clients who have graduated to a skilled level to help with community projects.
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