Volunteers of America Western Washington 2/7/2018 (2)

City of Everett Human Needs Grant January 1 through December 31, 2018 Volunteers of America Western Washington Maud's House Emergency Shelter and Development EXHIBIT A: Program Summary VOAWW provides shelter, intensive case management and wraparound support services to Everett homeless mothers and their children. The Maud's House Program Manager places clients in our emergency shelter. As their Case Manager, she helps them develop housing stability plans and become self-sufficient. She also serves as the focal point for the Maud's House Collaborative, which is designed to help the women plan for their family's future and develop a family value around child and adult education and employment readiness. The program also utilizes motel vouchers to house families temporarily, when necessary in support of program objectives. - Our overarching objective is to help families get into permanent housing, in which they can be stable. This might involve Rapid Rehousing, voucher based programs, and other housing resources that have supports designed to support housing stability and self-sufficiency. We also see great potential for a program that addresses the root causes of parents' challenges (lack of education, poor employment readiness, and inability to plan for the future), with the ojective of empowering them to succeed in permanent housing without extensive wraparound services. - We also have the objective that all young children will be enrolled in Early Head Start or Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP). We also want to see mothers have their school-age children attend school. - Our third objective is that mothers will understand how childhood trauma impacts their lives daily, including their ability to plan for the future. Included in this awareness is the goal that each mother understand the impact of current trauma on their children's lives (today and in the future), as well as how to lessen the impacts of trauma.