Services

• Transitional housing for 18 months (scattered-site)
• Participants have the option of receiving housing counseling, budgeting classes, childcare, and life skills classes.

Admissions process

Client should be referred through another agency/case worker. The case worker should fax over a complete application (which can be downloaded from the website) and a bio psychosocial evaluation. Once the information is received, a brief phone interview in conducted with the applicant. A second interview is conducted after the applicant is accepted, where they can view the living space. A drug test will also be conducted, which is free to the client.

Eligibility requirements

• Must be willing to be employed within 3 months of entry into the program.
• Undocumented survivors can still sign leases for apartments in most states and are still protected from discrimination in housing due to the domestic violence.   Survivors who are undocumented or lack eligible immigrant status to receive federal housing benefits (ie: public housing, Section 8 voucher etc), but who have children who are eligible, can still receive benefits on a pro-rated bases.

 

Tags: Undocumented