Making a House a Home: Warehouse Move

There is a saying that “It takes a village to raise a child” but in our circumstances it takes a village to move a warehouse! It was quite the feat to move a little over a half mile. From our warehouse on Talcott Road where we began our partnership with A Hand Up, to...

In Their Own Words…

On Saturday, August 25th, two 13-year-old girls from West Hartford embarked on a Journey Home makeover with our Making a House a Home program. Lucy Kabakoff and Marley Brown were working on their mitzvah project for their upcoming bat mitzvah celebrations. In a matter...

Re-Entry Welcome Center at Hartford City Hall

Community Partners in Action (CPA) was awarded a grant from Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to develop and operate a Reentry Welcome Center. The Reentry Welcome Center is located on the ground floor of City Hall at 550 Main Street in Hartford. It will be open...

Greater Hartford Emergency Shelters 100 Day Campaign

Over the past seven months, emergency shelters in the Greater Hartford area have been working together to improve our system of providing services, and ensure that all shelters are focused on quickly helping people return to housing. The area shelters have all spent...

Melville Charitable Trust Awards Journey Home $40,000

Journey Home is thrilled to announce that we have received a $40,000 grant from the Melville Charitable Trust to further the efforts of the Greater Hartford Coordinated Access Network (GH CAN). Two system service gaps have been identified by GH CAN membership over the...