Crossroads Rhode Island

Housing programs - to ensure our ability to help our clients secure safe, stable, and affordable housing, crossroads owns and manages more than 375 permanent supportive apartments statewide and maintains strong working relationships with hundreds of local landlords. As a result, we were able to help more than 2,500 people, including 61 domestic violence survivors, end their homelessness last year. Of those, 340 households received up to 24 months of rental assistance and case management support through our rapid rehousing program, which allowed them to move into market-rate apartments statewide. Another 732 households moved into permanent supportive housing, primarily into properties that crossroads owns. These apartments are deeply subsidized, allowing for extremely low or no-income residents to live safely with the housing-based services and support they needfor as long as they need.to help address rhode island's critical shortage of affordable housing, construction of the summer street apartments is also well underway. When complete in the fall of 2025, more than 176 formerly homeless adults will have a beautiful and affordable place to call home, making summer street the largest permanent supportive housing program in new england.

Education and employment assistance -in addition to shelter and housing, crossroads also offers a range of education and employment programs designed to give people the skills they need to increase their earned income and maintain their housing. In 2024, 204 people participated in one or more programs designed to help them increase their reading and math skills, work towards getting their high school equivalency, improve their financial literacy, train for a new career or look for a job. Of those, 67 clients found new employment. We are particularly proud of our certified nurse assistant (cna) program, which has graduated nearly 160 classes since we began offering the program in the 1990s. In 2024, 70 students enrolled in our cna program and more than 34 of those graduates are working in hospitals, nursing homes and home health care organizations today.