Ywca Greater Harrisburg

Residential support services - bridge and transitional housing, employment obtainment and counseling, emergency shelter, and city shelter:the Ywca of Greater Harrisburg housing and homelessness services provides emergency shelter for single women with or without children for up to 28 days, bridge/transitional housing shelter for homeless women and their children for up to 1 year, single room occupancy section 8 housing for homeless women with no children, permanent housing rental assistance and case management for homeless men and women with disabilities, and "safe haven permanent supportive housing" for chronically homeless women with severe mental illness. Supportive services include individual intensive case management focusing on goal planning, housing counseling and connection to appropriate services and benefits, life skills, parenting education and employment services. Other services available when appropriate include drug and alcohol recovery support groups, a food bank and clothing bank. From july 1, 2022 through june 30, 2023, these programs provided services to 160 adults, 95 children for a total of 34,174 bednights.under the residential support services within the Ywca, the economic and neighborhood development department provides employment services for women who reside at the Ywca as well as our Greater community. Services include job readiness training, assistance finding a job, job retention and other support services. These programs provided services to 153 unduplicated individuals. The veterans' service department provides employment readiness services, training, outreach, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, rapid re-housing, health care navigation, opioid response clinical coordination and case management, shallow subsidy housing supports, legal services, homelessness prevention, and connection to other supportive services to support veteran's health, wellbeing, and self-sufficiency. From july 1, 2022, through june 30, 2023, these programs provided 271 enrollments and services to 223 unduplicated individuals.

Children & youth services - camp reily, daycare, and lunch programthe Ywca of Greater Harrisburg child development centers offers year-round programs for children 6 weeks to 12 years old. The Ywca's children and youth programs provide care and education to children in families of all income levels. The Ywca has an integrated curriculum that combines early literacy, science, math, art, music and physical education in addition to social and communication skills. Regular excursions and extracurricular activities are planned throughout the year to expand the children's experience. From july 1, 2022 through june 30, 2023 the Ywca has provided services to 78 children. The daycare, before and after school & summer camp provided services to 109 children according to their ages from july 1, 2022 through june 30, 2023:

Crisis services - rape crisis, domestic violence, voca, prevention education, and supervised visitationthe Ywca of Greater Harrisburg violence intervention and prevention programs offers a 24-hour hotline, domestic violence shelter, human trafficking services, accompaniments to court, hospital and the police station, crisis intervention, individual counseling, support groups, medical advocacy, transitional housing, prevention education in schools, professional training, employment services, immigration outreach and referral information. Services are also offered through our visitation center, which served 412 clients. From july 1, 2022 through june 30 2023, these programs provided services to 2,973 clients and 1,304 community members.

Domestic violence legal centerthe Ywca legal center was established to provide free civil legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, dating violence, and human trafficking that are unable to afford an attorney. From july 1, 2022 through june 30, 2023 the legal center provided services to 1,900 individuals.the legal center handles a wide variety of cases, including:protection from abuse 1,001custody-479divorce- 268child/spousal support- 68immigration 38other family law - 96