Program areas at The Haven Project
Maintained and staffed coffee shop open to The public by providing jobs, training, and public service experience for at-risk young adults.
Job training and housing program provided at risk homeless young adults with temporary shelter and job training.
Drop-in center provided at-risk homeless young adults with basic needs, food, education and job training. *engaged 283 homeless unaccompanied through ongoing social media contact, street outreach, and community relationships; *provided grocery gift cards and year-round access to our on-site food pantry, laundry facilities and shower facilities; *maintained ongoing phone/social media/email contact with 45 youth each week; *enrolled 100% of engaged clients in mass health and/or snap food stamp benefits; *employed 50 clients in our job training program where they were able to build important work skills; *helped 50 young adults secure safe and reliable employment and provided in-person and/or virtual job training workshops to 82 clients; *developed 6 new partnerships to (1) assist clients as they transition from our program to outside work positions and (2) improve our community outreach and name recognition. These include The wash cycle, target, beth israel, root, nscc, and salem state university;*secured housing for 54 homeless youth in apartments, dorms and/or room rentals; *assisted 26 clients to achieve an educational milestone, 23 of whom graduated from an eduational program - hiset, high school, and/or college ; and *securing funding for catalyst housing, our on-site, permanent supportive housing Project to provide 23 studio apartments for extremely low-income young adults (18-24, up to 30% area median income (ami) who lack access to secure housing). This Project will offer wraparound services to dovetail with The existing supportive services offered by The Haven Project. Construction in set to begin in fall 2023.