Program Goals & Objectives
Ending homelessness for single-parent families in Montgomery and Bucks Counties by connecting them to professional case management and trained mentoring groups from local churches in order that the families achieve permanent housing, financial self-sufficiency, and family stability.
Measures of Success
Each participant’s success in Bridge of Hope is measured by the achievement of the following outcomes-based measurements:
- Has the family attained and maintained housing?
- Has the parent attained financial self-sufficiency through employment, budgeting and by securing adequate transportation, child-care and health insurance?
- Has the family developed a support network through mentors and other people?
- Has the parent grown in areas of holistic living, including parenting and emotional/spiritual/physical health?
Program Objectives
Attain and Maintain Housing
- To provide a solution to homelessness & address at-risk nature of those needing housing
- Receive referrals from transitional housing programs of candidates who are single income households with a desire to afford and maintain long term market value housing.
- Assist in locating rental units for long‑term housing
- Advocate to landlords on behalf of the participating family.
- To assure long-term housing stability.
- Provide rental assistance on a decreasing basis (100%, 75%, 50%, 25%) over the course of twelve to twenty-four months
b. Explore the option for future home ownership upon completion of the program - Assist participants in cultivating positive landlord-tenant relationships
- Provide rental assistance on a decreasing basis (100%, 75%, 50%, 25%) over the course of twelve to twenty-four months
Attain Financial Self-Sufficiency
- Work toward permanent, full-time employment
- Evaluate participants’ skills and job history
- Make connections with job training programs
- Link the parents with career counseling
- Encourage and assist the parents in locating permanent, full‑time employment
- Teach budgeting skills and money management
- Secure adequate transportation, child-care and health insurance for family members
Develop supportive relationships through the mentoring group as well as other individuals
- Connect families to mentoring groups that provide friendship through ongoing relationships
Provide positive role models and friends ‑- through mentoring groups
- Provide counsel and support in understanding how to build relationships, both to the mentors and to the participant
Experience growth in areas of holistic living, including parenting and emotional, spiritual, and physical health
- Promote basic family building skills and increased parenting skills
- To encourage healthy child development
- To promote and model strong family life
- To empower participants in their role as a single parent
- To promote role modeling by mentors
- To promote healthy family interaction and communication
- To teach decision‑making and problem‑solving skills
- To encourage parents to read aloud to their children on a regular basis
- Promote Emotional Health
- To raise the self‑esteem of the parent and children
- To support the parent in establishing and attaining realistic life goals
- To affirm the strengths of each single parent.
- To promote an atmosphere for emotional healing
- To encourage use of local support groups (e.g., A.A., N.A., domestic violence, etc.)
- To make connections for intensive counseling at local counseling centers, etc.
- To empower parents to make healthy choices in relationships
- Promote Spiritual Health
- To provide a caring community through mentoring that promotes spiritual growth
- To promote involvement, as appropriate, with the local church in which the mentoring group is based. Church attendance is not required.
- To encourage participation in various groups within the church (e.g. young adult groups, parent's groups, etc.)
- To support the development of mentoring relationships which address spiritual needs
- Promote Physical Health
- To encourage families to establish a primary medical and dental care provider
- To connect families to local nutrition programs, as appropriate
- To make connections with other community resources
- To encourage families to establish a primary medical and dental care provider
Program Goals & Objectives
Ending homelessness for single-parent families in Montgomery and Bucks Counties by connecting them to professional case management and trained mentoring groups from local churches in order that the families achieve permanent housing, financial self-sufficiency, and family stability.
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Bridge of Hope Model
Bridge of Hope Model: A Three-Way Partnership.
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Mentoring Description
A mentoring group is comprised of 10-12 people from one congregation who provide practical assistance, friendship and support to one family participating in the Bridge of Hope BuxMont program.
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Referral Guidelines
Appropriate referrals for Bridge of Hope BuxMont are single-parent families who are presently homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless.
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Intake & Referral Procedure
Bridge of Hope BuxMont is not emergency housing. The application process is usually five to seven weeks in length and is dependent upon family suitability for the program and the availability of mentoring groups.
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