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The Women's Home 2013 Annual Report ome ront theh Women’s Home 2013f Annual Report to 12 tenants, while 7 development. Needed services were identified through Executive Director’s Message obtained employment. an independent community assessment process. The In the first quarter of Center will serve our tenant families as well as the 2014, 100% of those surrounding neighborhood, allowing us to serve this PAULA PAUST who found employment predominately Hispanic community. had an increase in their Our target population for our housing and the income. Of those who Service Center will be families whose children attend moved out, 90% moved into other permanent housing. Treasure Forest Elementary School. This is an at- With support from our community, we will risk school with approximately 90% of the children provide supportive housing and similar outcomes receiving free or reduced price lunches, and 80% to more women and their families. Our intent is to having limited English proficiency. Spring Branch serve 40 families who have experienced episodes Community Health Center estimates that they will have of homelessness, and 44 families who are at risk of 10,500 patient visits, including mental health services homelessness because of very low income. Two full annually. The Home estimates that the children’s time case managers will be on-site to serve these enrichment programs, adult education, and workforce families. development will see 13,000 visits annually. And thanks to the continuing community support The Home has experience on a small scale we receive, we will be able in turn to serve more providing psychiatric and nurse practitioner services, children. The new complex will have two and three individual, group and family therapy, adult education bedroom units, instead of having only one bedroom and workforce development. In addition to that units to offer. Through this type of environment we experience, it is our intent to partner with agencies We are growing! believe we will see meaningful outcomes, particularly that have specific expertise related to these needed You have probably heard that The Women’s Home is where it relates to the children at the facility. services. The Home anticipates providing some planning for expansion on our Spring Branch Campus. According to the principal of Treasure Forest behavioral healthcare services, such as individual and Since 1957, The Home has housed and nurtured women Elementary, where the children will attend school, one group therapy, as well as substance abuse services, recovering from the loss of home, addictions and mental out of five children annually do not complete the school including substance abuse education. There will health crisis. You are familiar with our Treatment and year because of the need for affordable housing for their be an emphasis on services for children, including Transitional program in Montrose, and have watched us parents to rent. We expect to see 90% of our children therapeutic services related to trauma. Each grow with the newer community in East Spring Branch, annually completing the school year. To date, we have partnering agency will identify specific outcomes that Jane Cizik Garden Place. only four children living at Jane Cizik Garden Place. can be shared with The Home. SM The Home recognizes that single mothers and The new housing will operate economically the Our business plan for the WholeLife Service children are the fastest growing homeless population same way Jane Cizik Garden Place operates. In 2013, Center calls for the rents from our tenant partners and in the nation, and that one out of three female headed the average physical occupancy was 99% and the program fees to cover the operating costs. To date, the households with children live in poverty. We also economic occupancy was 96%. The average renewal Health Center has agreed to pay a substantial portion recognize that the agency has the expertise to have a rate was 92%. Nationally, the retention rate is 60%. The annually towards an anticipated $280,000 annual positive impact on these statistics for the families we will property has a project-based voucher to assist tenants operating budget. The Service Center will operated serve. with their rents even though rents are below “Low Monday through Saturday from 9:00am-8:00pm. These Without considering community statistics, we know HOME” rents, as set by the Department of Housing are the hours that The Home will provide receptionist, the need for safe and affordable housing is significant. and Urban Development (HUD). The property is janitorial and facility coordination services for our At Jane Cizik Garden Place, our permanent supportive self-sustaining, and has a million dollar maintenance various programs. housing complex, our wait list has reached 70 for an 87 reserve. The Home does subsidize case management As you can see, it is an exciting time for The Home, unit complex and on most days the list averages over 40. and other support services through philanthropic and we appreciate your support now, more than ever. It is clear that additional rental units are needed to serve donors and collaborations. With your help, we are poised to grow our ability to the chronically homeless, transitionally homeless and Because of our experience with supportive significantly impact even more lives with meaningful, very low income households. These are underserved housing, we know that case management and lasting change. On behalf of the board, staff, current populations, and they are populations that have found other support services are critical to the success and former clients of our Montrose campus and the a safe, stable home at Jane Cizik Garden Place. In 2013, of individuals and families. Thus, we have plans to tenants of Spring Branch Campus, we thank you! SM 90% of the tenants had lived there for a year or longer, build a WholeLife Service Center that will house and a stable home environment is a critical first step. Spring Branch Community Health Center, a federally Last year, case managers and critical staff for qualified healthcare clinic (FQHC), after school and vulnerable populations provided job search assistance summer school programs for elementary age children, mental health services and adult education/work force “Nobody, but nobody, can today, i am grateful for… Being here. I would be on the make it out here alone.” streets if I wasn’t here. - Maya Angelou TO BE ALIVE AND SOBER. Have you ever stopped to think that through to serenity. You have made a difference in your gifts to others, you enrich your own life changing lives. My happiness and my life choices. beyond measure? Simple gifts that are offered with an open heart and belief in “better yet to As we reflect on the strength of these come” for those neighbors in our community collective gifts and the incredible mission The scholarship that was who need a hand. Not a hand out, a hand up. to bring peace from crisis, the Board of Most of us live the good life, surrounded by Directors and staff of The Women’s Home awarded to me for my education! the safe and security of a home, a productive want to recognize you and your generosity. job, and most importantly the love and Through you, we see lives touched in ways support of family and friends. But what if, that may at times seem impossible. those things were lost? All the help and nurturing I get Together, we have made a difference for Many of our residents have known the despair thousands of local women over the years. here from the staff, they really care. and uncertain terror that comes with losing everything. What better way than to hear in their own words, gratitude for the little and the big For the future that I see coming, You, with your generous support, have turned things that now surround them... around that despair to hope. That terror I can barely contain my excitement! More on pages 4 & 5... While reflecting on our Board of Directors activities apartment complex will be built to serve additional in 2013, I realize how much progress was made in women and their families. determining the next steps for growth and expansion 2) Designed a support center in Spring Branch on of services to the women in our community. We are an existing acre of land, and began the process of excited for the increased visibility we have attained, partnering with other agencies to provide services to and thankful for the publicity we have received in the the residents in our affordable housing complexes, as past two years. We continue to see great things happen well as the surrounding community. Services planned with our organization, and we are honored to be at include after-school care and summer enrichment the forefront of the continued expansion of women’s programs for children, GED/ESL classes, and services in the Houston area. parenting classes. We are also excited about the ability Our primary goal in 2013 was to move forward with to partner with a federally qualified health care clinic the strategic plan of The Women’s Home, which for women and children as part of our support center. focused on increasing the number of women and 3) Obtained a temporary trademark for our Whole families that we serve, in order to offer hope and LifeSM Program, as we move through the process of stability to a larger number of this population. In early securing a permanent trademark. 2013, board members voted to hire a professional services firm to perform a needs analysis in the Spring Our board members are excited about the changes Branch area, specifically in the area of our Jane Cizik that are happening, and we are driven to see our Garden Place Apartments, to be used in planning for organizational vision become a reality.
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