York Street Project is a weaving of innovative programs that provide an environment to shelter, feed, educate and promote the healing of persons in need, especially women, children and their families. York Street Project helps its families heal from a life severely impacted by trauma, poverty and homelessness, while also strengthening their life skills and independence as they transition to permanent housing.
Because there are many different needs, York Street Project offers multiple types of programs to support families. Housing programs range from emergency shelter and short-term immediate care to transitional supportive housing for up to two years. All include a structured living environment that guides and supports them as they transition to new independent lives. Family housing facilities include St. Joseph’s Home, a five-story brownstone housing up to 25 families. In addition, York Street Project provides supportive services and rental assistance to about 30 families living off-site in apartments.
Affordable housing is provided for single working women with limited incomes at St. Mary’s Residence. Support for the residents includes assistance with job skills and meals, allowing them the ability to focus on improving their quality of life.
Homelessness is more than a housing problem. York Street Project uses a holistic approach to support the entire family, taking on the less visible factors to heal hidden damages that the cycle of poverty perpetuates. Using an intergenerational approach to working with its families, York Street helps them take on unlearning the lessons of hopelessness and helplessness, restoring destroyed self-esteem, and addresses the insidious developmental delays in their children. With its team of case managers, social workers, residential advocates and many community collaborations of critical services, York Street Project helps heal and strengthen families.
York Street Project’s award-winning early child development center, The Nurturing Place, provides access to quality, evidence-based education aimed at improving children’s language, literacy and social-emotional development.
While children receive quality care and education, parents have access to employment and training specialists creating learning experiences and linkages to career, education and vocational resources.
