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Program
Success - The Home Connection
- Provides transitional housing and supportive services to homeless families with emphasis on attaining financial independence and home ownership.
- Case management staff work with families to identify the causes of their homelessness and develop a plan, with goals, to remedy causes and attain financial independence within approximately two years.
- Is the only program for homeless families with children with single family homes and duplexes located in Des Moines neighborhoods.
- Program owns 21 housing units that typically serve 28 - 30 families per year.
- Requires at least one adult working or in an educational or job training program.
- Requires adults in the families to be involved in their children's education and development and perform community volunteer work.
- Requires that family pays 30% of their income to The Home Connection
- 10% is set aside in an escrow account established for the family.
- Funds that accrue are used to pay their past debts, if applicable.
- The balance is returned to the family when they complete the program to use as a down payment on a home, rent and rent deposit.
- The remainder goes toward utility costs, maintenance, and other program costs.
2010 Outcomes
- Familes
Served: 27
Individuals - 120
Children - 86 or
72%
Adults - 34 or 28%
- Family Make-Up:
Single mother -
17 or 63%
Couples - 6 or 22%
Single Father -
4 or 15%
- Race:
White - 65 or 54%
Black/African-American
- 37 or 31%
Multi-Racial - 7 or 6%
Asian - 11 or 9%
- Ethnicity:
Hispanic - 28 or
23%
- Ten families
completed the transitional
housing program
during 2010
- Four or 40% purchased their own home
- Six or 60% moved to permanent
housing rental
- Household monthly
income for families
that completed program
in 2010
- Average family household monthly income at beginning of program - $1,239 ($14,868 annual income)
- Average family household monthly income at completion of program - $2,226 ($26,712 annual income)
- Average family household monthly income increase - $987
- Average family household monthly income percentage increase - 80%
- Household Monthly Income for Current Families in 2010
- Average Family Household Monthly Income at Beginning of Program - $954
- Average Family Household Monthly Income on 12/2010 - $1,066
- Average Family Household Monthly Income Increase - $112
- Average Household Monthly Income Percentage Increase – 12%
- Of the adults in the program in 2010
- 18 were employed
- 4 in college and receiving FIP
- 9 in college and employed
- 6 employed and in job training
- 6 taking English as a Second Language classes
- 3 obtained their GED
- Teens in the Program
- 2 graduated from high school and went on to college
- 3 honor roll students
- 2 in Gifted & Talented program
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