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We offer financial counseling and monetary support  

Every day, in our Waynesboro, Carlisle and Chambersburg facilities, we offer budgeting and financial management counseling to low-income people who have fallen into difficulty. So often, simple attention to finances would likely have kept many from going over the edge. Bringing them back from the abyss saves heartaches, saves families, and even saves souls. And, for the record, it helps reduce economic stress on the greater community, as well. Yet, despite our efforts and those of a variety of agencies, a portion of the population falls through the cracks and is repeatedly in crisis, because of poverty, lack of skills, poor management, and more. The saddest, and cases involve children, youngsters living on the streets, in cars, or in homeless or domestic violence shelters. Efforts to help these families often become splintered. Reasons unique to each family unit make rehabilitation difficult and result in repeated failure.

Now, a comprehensive way to help the most unfortunate of the homeless  

Having seen these failure over and over, we conceived a plan called Total Person Transitional Housing Program (TPTHP). The heart of the plan involves a trained volunteer mentor who befriends the distressed family and gives the family unrelenting support. The mentor is backed by a professional case manager and virtually every experienced support agency in our community in lifting the family out of poverty by resolving the unique problems which contributed to the homelessness. Eventually, the program will require, in addition to the case manager, a volunteer coordinator and secretarial support. This kind of concentrated support will permit services to only the neediest of families. Its intensity will allow including three families the first year, expanding to include eight families by the third year. A series of benchmarks have been established for monitoring  and assessing the progress of the program and of the persons it’s intended to serve.  

 Population Served: Franklin County, Adams County, Fulton County and surrounding areas.