Drueding Center

Residential services - Drueding Center staff partner with our resident families to find solid ground, helping parents gain the skill and confidence that are the foundation for their future independence and showing their children that success is possible in their lives. Hope for the future begins to emerge and gradually becomes real and attainable. Meeting the needs of our families - who have suffered trauma and still face daunting odds on the path to independence - calls for comprehensive services, and these are: (1) intensive case management, (2) clinical counseling, (3) trauma informed services, (4) youth advocate, (5) life skills, (6) parenting skills, and (7) green light food pantry. In fy 18, Drueding Center served a total of 50 families in transitional housing and 67% of the families that left the program moved into permanent housing. 71% of the families in the residential program increased their self-sufficiency scores and 88% ...

Community services - the following services are provided: (1) housing assistance, (2) after care case management, (3) blueprint case management program, and (4) new neighbors permanent supportive housing program. (1) housing assistance - whatever challenges they may face, every family views independent living as the ultimate goal and the leading measure of success. From running an initial credit report and helping each mother clean up past problems, to eventually placing families in safe, affordable, convenient housing, Drueding Center calls on our vast array of partnerships and networks to open doors. We assist residents with all the necessary paperwork and application forms. We have developed specialized resources, such as a housing bulletin board and a housing resource book, which features the latest listings and resources to support home ownership. (2) after care case management - whether families are here for an average of 13 months or the maximum allowable stay of ...

Youth services - to effectively end the cycle of poverty and homelessness, we must invest time and energy in our children. Drueding Center's child care provides high-quality programming, beginning with infants as young as six weeks in our: (1) childcare Center and continuing through age 12 in our (2) after school program. The child care program is open to our resident families as well as families from the surrounding community. In fy 18, the program served a total of 91 children. (1) childcare Center - the lack of safe, quality childcare is a major barrier to single parents who need a job and steady income to support their families. Drueding Center provides professionally staffed, developmentally appropriate childcare, licensed by the Pennsylvania department of human services. All early childhood education activities are based on the creative curriculum and designed to promote cognitive, linguistic, social/emotional and physical development based on the theories ...