Hope House STL

Permanent supportive housing - this housing is typically targeted to individuals or families who are experiencing homelessness and who would have difficulty maintaining permanent housing without ongoing supports. Supportive housing is designed primarily for people with long histories of homelessness due to persistent obstacles like serious mental illness, substance use disorders, or chronic medical problems. Compared with other very low-income people, these men and women disproportionately use shelters, emergency health care and public mental health services - often cycling rapidly through various public institutions at great cost to taxpayers. Supportive housing can break this cycle by providing affordable housing and the services that these individuals or families need to remain stably housed. The program includes case management, early childhood education, living skills classes, counseling and service referrals. Previously chronically homeless families and individuals will receive the assistance they need to be successful and satisfied in a secure and permanent residential setting.

Child development - for the duration of the family's participation in the supportive housing program, Hope House's child development center (the "center") provides child care, cultural and educational resources, parenting skills education, and school-age programming. The state- accredited early childhood development program became a ywca head start partner on june 1, 2009 and a early head start partner with youth in need on june 22, 2015.