Project Home

Programs: Project home provides housing and support services for formerly homeless individuals and families as well as outreach efforts for individuals living on the streets. The organization has developed a proven and effective program to assist persons in overcoming chronic homelessness. This "continuum of services" is carefully designed to deal with the complex issues of persons with special needs such as mental illness and addiction. The services consist of street outreach; a range of supportive housing from entry-level to permanent, lease based housing, comprehensive services including health, behavioral health and dental care services and employment and education services; and advocacy and strategic initiatives. Project home's housing and supportive services offer permanent, subsidized, supportive housing for individuals and families who had been homeless. Currently, we have developed 714 units of supportive and affordable housing for persons who have experienced homelessness and low-income persons at risk of homelessness. Our goal is to complete 1,000 total units of affordable housing in the near future. Project home's outreach coordination center (occ), in partnership with the city and other service providers, coordinates outreach to people living on the streets of philadelphia. The occ reaches out to over 2,200 unduplicated individuals annually. And , in collaboration with the va and other partner organizations, project home administers the philadelphia alliance for supportive services for veteran families program, that provides services and resources to obtain and maintain housing for about 500 very low income veterans and their families who are at risk of or are currently experiencing homelessness.

project home offers a comprehensive menu of one-on-one and group services to help overcome multiple barriers to education and employment. In addition to an innovative, trauma-informed apprenticeship program, the agency provides one-on-one job placement and retention support services, helping people overcome barriers to employment such as gaps in work histories associated with homelessness, histories of mental health issues, incarceration and other issues. Project home applies the principles and practices of the evidence based individualized placement and support (ips) model. Project home also manages social enterprises, including home made that produces candles and soaps made by residents. The workshop-style production supports employment for individuals early in recovery from homelessness with significant barriers to employment and self-efficacy. Project home's honickman learning center and comcast technology labs (hlcctl) offers a college access program, a summer camp and k-12 after school program. The hlcctl also offers adult learning programs, including basic education (computer skills and ged classes) and vocational certification programs, to further support community members and their employment goals.

project home's health care services increases access to people experiencing homelessness and poverty to health care and other services and is delivered in three locations: (1) the stephen klein wellness center offers integrated health care services, including primary care, behavioral health, pharmacy, and dental care in addition to wellness programs like fitness and nutrition classes, support groups, a ymca fitness center and physical therapy. Mobile health care services bring healthcare services to individuals who are street homeless. (2) pathways to housing pa, a sister agency serving chronically homeless single adults, provides project home dedicated space in their headquarters to deliver medical and behavioral health services to their participants on a part-time schedule. (3) hub of hope, an outreach and engagement center operated by project home, also includes medical and behavioral health services to a chronically homeless population. In fiscal year 2017, approximately 3,600 individual patients were served and 15,000 healthcare visits were completed.

project home is committed to social and political advocacy. An integral part of our work is education about the realities of homelessness and poverty and vigorous advocacy on behalf of and with homeless and low-income persons for more just and humane public policies. At project home, this work is led by our advocacy and policy department in collaboration with a rich network of partners, advocates, and residents. Through project home's strategic initiatives work, we manage a public/private initiative working to end chronic street homelessness in philadelphia. We work with various community partnerships to expand system capacity, implement and share best practices, and collaboratively create plans for ending homelessness in our community.