JOURNEY HOME GOALS
-Increase Supportive and Affordable Housing
-Increase Access to Services
-Move Crisis Households into Housing ASAP and Provide Housing to the Chronic Homeless
-Increase Incomes of the Capitol Region’s Homeless and At-Risk Households
-Provide Assistance to Prevent Family and Individual Homelessness
-Create Community Awareness and a Coordinated Response
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| Mission |
Journey Home is committed to fostering a caring community that ensures a home for all. We give life to this mission through:
Encouraging collaboration
Facilitating innovation
Advocating for justice |
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Journey Home is the non-profit agency spearheading the implementation of the Capitol Region’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. In ending homelessness Journey Home will utilize city, town and state government, community based service organizations, local businesses, the faith based community, academia, advocates and individuals who themselves have experienced or are at risk of homelessness.
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Journey Home's Plan
Journey Home is a comprehensive plan about working together to implement solutions to end homelessness in our region
Read the 10 Year Plan |
Current State
Every year more than 4,000 of our neighbors spend at least one night in an emergency shelter
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Get Involved
We need your help in order to succeed. There are a variety of ways in which you can participate
Find out how YOU can help |
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On the night of January 28, 2009 in Hartford there were approximately 917 people experiencing homelessness.
This number includes:
• 743 households
• 663 single adults
• 83 families
• 171 children in families
• Connecticut Counts 2009. Point in Time Homeless Count, Final rpt. August 2009 CT Coalition to End Homelessness, Corp. for Supportive Housing & Reaching Home Campaign
[1] Connecticut Counts 2008. Point in Time Homeless Count, Final rpt. 7/25/08 CT Coalition to End Homelessness, Corp. for Supportive Housing & Reaching Home Campaign
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