The Partnership To End Homelessness Inc

Mental health and well-being:our sound homes health and well-being program addresses the mental health and emotional well-being needs of our clients. In addition to, and often underlining, the struggle to keep a roof over their heads and survive on low incomes, our clients are surviving trauma and discrimination. Sound homes: our mental health and well-being program provides clients access to culturally-competent mental health screenings; one-on-one counseling (in-person and via telehealth); peer support; facilitated workshops and groups on topics such as sexual trauma, parenting and tenant's rights and responsibilities. The program also facilitates connections to primary and mental health care providers to address chronic health conditions potentially exacerbated by, or driving, housing instability. Case management services offered are tailored to the needs of each client and the intensity and duration of the services is adapted to their specific needs and may fluctuate over time. Our mental health and well-being program ensures the partnership is a trauma-informed environment. The road to stability is not always linear, and periods of disengagement or crisis are normalized and validated. Our trauma-informed approach is mindful of the potential for interventions to evoke trauma, confusion or hardship, which may in turn trigger disengagement, crisis or setbacks. We work with our clients for at least one year and continue to be available whenever a client may need us in the future.

Education and public narrative:the partnership works in community and in collaborations to change the public understanding of homelessness and increase awareness that a) women and children of color, lgbtqia+, immigrant and older new yorkers are the primary groups hurt by homelessness, b) a majority of the families at risk or experiencing homelessness are living with complex trauma and c) prevention is the most cost-effective and humanitarian approach to solve the problem. The organization also works with partners to ensure access to education as a means of ending intergenerational homelessness and provides education programming to augment its health and well-being programming including financial empowerment, budgeting, banking and credit and employment/career development.