HOMEWARD BOUND
strengthens mothers and children’s resolve during their stay at the shelter, and as they move to permanent housing, provides practical as well as emotional support.

Program activities include:

• “A Fresh Start” packages for families leaving the shelter containing small appliances, kitchenware, towels, and other necessities. HoG also provides and delivers beds, couches, tables and chairs to our neediest families.
• The Alumni Support Group (ASG) where moms now in permanent housing reunite at off site locations to inspire, mutually support, and share one another’s lives, loves, hardships, laughter and tears, and get help with entitlements. HoG staff facilitates the group, and a meal and childcare is provided.
• Crisis Intervention, in which HoG provides security deposits for apartments, winter coats, new shoes, strollers and other practical help. We also provide legal counsel through the pro-bono work of Skadden, Arps, Slate, and Meagher & Flom LLP for special needs.
• Shelter improvements where HoG carpets, paints, furnishes, equips, builds computer stations and organizers, renovates backyards and decorates residents’ rooms.

HoG moves with the times, identifying emerging problems at our three adopted shelters. We have the organizational capacity to respond rapidly with help ensuring that our families don’t “fall through the cracks.” Immediacy is our motto.