Journey House Inc

Adult education: the journey house family learning center empowers individuals and families in milwaukee's near southside by offering opportunities for language development, adult basic skills training, ged preparation, digital literacy, and life skills education. Our goal is to help participants secure and maintain family-sustaining employment. We provide comprehensive programs that include in-person, hybrid, and online instruction in english language learning, citizenship, adult basic education, and ged preparation in english and spanish. Additionally, we offer personalized case management and create tailored personal education plans to meet the unique needs of each participant.

Capacity building: capacity building helps sustain high-quality general operations by providing administrative leadership support, ensuring that journey house programs can operate fully, with a special emphasis on youth development and thrive workforce readiness programs.

Workforce readiness: our thrive career pathway and financial opportunity center assists low-income residents in finding fulfilling employment and offers financial coaching. Our thrive internship career pathways program, which is an intensive initiative featuring multi-week training courses aimed at preparing low-income youth and adults for the workforce. This includes career pathway training, sky breath meditation, and internships in various fields such as healthcare, construction and design, hospitality, and sports turf and landscaping.after-school program: journey house collaborates with longfellow school in the milwaukee public school system to provide students with a secure, structured, and supervised after-school environment. Our programs aim to enhance student achievement, offer alternatives to being home alone, provide a safe haven from negative influences, and deliver youth development initiatives that help students reach their full potential in academics, arts, and athletics.family engagement: we provide a variety of engaging activities and resources for families, including large-scale autumn and winter celebrations such as the halloween spooktacular, thanksgiving dinner, and winter wonderland.campus housing: our campus housing initiative aims to provide affordable housing for motivated youth who are homeless and aging out of foster care. Community garden: our community garden fosters a healthier community by creating gardens and organizing wellness activities. One of our notable achievements is the transformation of a vacant lot into a vibrant community garden, complete with a water gazebo. This gazebo collects rainwater and serves as a peaceful gathering space for neighbors to connect and grow food together.