Street To Home

United Way of Atlanta offers many exceptional programs to help residents with challenges they are facing. Street-to-Home is an early morning outreach program helps homeless individuals off the streets and into housing.

STREET TO HOME: THE FIRST STEP BACK

The Regional Commission on Homelessness and its community partners created an early morning outreach program to help homeless individuals off the streets and into housing. Once a month, typically before the day light, volunteers and experienced case managers engage homeless individuals and offer a chance to end their homelessness. If a person is interested, they board the Gateway bus and begin the journey toward transitional housing coupled with intense case management.

PEERS REACHING OUT TEAM (PRO)

Street to Home program has created a model to engage the homeless community using previously homeless individuals to build relationships. The Peers Reaching Out Team (PRO) is a group of individuals, whom have transitioned out of homelessness themselves and now have a desire to help serve others facing the same struggle.

RESULTS 2012-2013

• 151 in transitional housing
• 133 were reunited with family
• 75 percent of individuals stayed in housing
• 190 in permanent housing

For more information, please contact Kinte Rollins at 404.614.1042 or krollins@unitedwayatlanta.org

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HOMELESSNESS

Did you know? On any given day, there are 7,500 people in metro Atlanta who will wake up without a place to call home. That’s why we are working hard to help homeless people get housed within one year. We want to end chronic homelessness, not simply manage it. With that in mind, we provide housing that is connected to support services such as case management.

Vets Connect: Julia Kelly’s Story

With a down economy, the face of homelessness is changing. Finishing high school, graduating college, serving in the military and a 20-year career did not save Julia Kelly from being homeless. Without a job and a limited severance package, Kelly could no longer pay her rent and resorted to living with friends. That’s when she learned about Vets Connect. Vets Connect introduced her to Another Chance, which helped her with housing and the Gateway Center which gave her clothes, food and even employment training resources. “The program gave me some hope and dignity in what I was going through.” she says. Now Kelly lives in her own apartment and is going to school at Beulah Heights University for religious studies. She volunteers at her church working with women and is on the Peers Reaching Out (PRO) Team working to help other homeless individuals get off the streets. “Now I feel peaceful and settled,” she says, “I’m glad I never lost hope.” For more information on Vets Connect, click here.

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