Hands Together A Center For Children

The goals of our Hands Together program are to provide the highest quality early childhood educational experience to children experiencing the trauma of homelessness and to strengthen homeless families AND families currently living in transitional housing by assisting them to move towards self-sufficiency. To meet these goals, the objectives include:
1.      Improving the social, emotional and educational development of 95 children a year by providing a structured pre-school environment. 
2.      Identifying and enhancing employment and training that enable families in transition and working low-income parents with preschool age children to secure living wage jobs.
3.      Increasing coordination of mainstream benefits and services provided by government programs. Improving and supporting communication between service providers.
Additional goals include increasing options for transportation to services, work, and school; expanding the supply of and access to affordable childcare for families in transition and at-risk families; and increasing the supply of and access to legal services related to housing and homeless issues.