Chapman Partnership Inc

Healthcare - healthcare at chapman encompasses medical and mental health services. Health clinics located at chapman partnership north and chapman partnership south are designed to stabilize and address the immediate needs of residents, including acute health problems and chronic conditions, and serve as a resident's primary care provider during their stay. Mental health services help residents deal with common diagnoses, such as depression and anxiety disorders, bipolar disease and schizophrenia.

Chapman partnership's workforce development programs include pre -employment orientation, paid internships, and apprenticeships leading to living wage jobs in high demand industries in south florida. Employment specialists help residents with pre-employment skills training through empower you, a formalized workforce orientation and job readiness training program focused on soft skills - behaviors and attitudes that demonstrate reliability, motivation, and ability to be a team player. With the ultimate goal being education, employment and empowerment, the organization fosters innovation through the chapman academy, incorporating comprehensive, age-appropriate wrap-around strategies serving residents ages 5 to 55 including: - the workforce trades program is a post-secondary alternative to college that offers free, intensive training in sustainable trades relevant to the south florida economy. Upon completion, participants receive nationally recognized certifications and are eligible for living wage salaries through direct employment opportunities. - the young adult career academy (yaca) is an internship program for young adults ages 14 to 24 that combines soft and hard job skills training with paid work experience in employment sectors specific to operating chapman partnership's homeless assistance centers.

Family resource centers - early head start and head start programs support the physical, social and cognitive development of children from birth to age five and are conducted in collaboration with miami-dade county public schools. The family resource centers provide high quality educational, recreational, character and self-esteem building delivered in the afterschool and summer settings for school aged children. Many child participants have become honor roll students despite the adverse childhood experiences associated with their episode of homelessness. Daily activities are conducted in collaboration with community partners that promote positive, healthy development, foster resilience, and instill the social norms that counterbalance the physical, psychological and sociological effects of homelessness.