Stable Families (SF) Program Model
All services are offered on-site at the Family Hope Center
The SF model is a proven, integrated approach that offers moms and kids facing homelessness the resources and tools needed to become safe and stable, leaving homelessness behind forever. Families are being successful. 91% are successfully housed one year later.
Housing Stability
Behavioral Health, Life Skills, & Counseling
Workforce Development (WFD)
Financial Budgeting
Child & Youth Services
The Need
Every month, more than 212 calls are received from desperate families who are homeless or in eviction. Our goal is to answer every single-parent call received, but currently, 30-40 families per month can be accepted into Vine Maple Place’s services. The depth of need is eye-opening:
The Need
Every month, more than 212 calls are received from desperate families who are homeless or in eviction. Our goal is to answer every single-parent call received, but currently, 30-40 families per month can be accepted into Vine Maple Place’s services. The depth of need is eye-opening:
Who We Serve
93% of the adults we serve are single mothers and 66% of who we serve are children. More than 70% have experienced or witnessed domestic violence. Parents who come to Vine Maple Place have experienced generational poverty, homelessness, and trauma that's resulted in toxic stress, which has impacted development. Many have struggled in school, have low education levels, and limited work experience.
- 81% of families enter our Stable Families program at or below the federal poverty level or severely low income.
- 80% suffer with anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues.
- 73% of VMP clients are people of color.
Community Based
Recognizing that no single agency has all the resources needed to end homelessness, Vine Maple Place has created a community support system that multiplies the work.
Changed Lives
Read how families facing homelessness refused to give up, and worked hard toward long-term stability.
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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ESCAPE ABUSEREAD FULL STORY
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MOM OVERCOMES EVICTIONREAD FULL STORY
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FROM HOMELESS TO SAFETYREAD FULL STORY
Family Hope Center (FHC)
The Family Hope Center is a 15,000 sq. ft. community resource for families facing homelessness as they work hard toward safety and stability. Opened in 2018, the FHC has increased the physical space by four times and annually over 600 families – 1,500 moms and kids – receive services to build skills to break the generational cycle of homelessness.
Children's Programs
A safe space for children who have experienced homelessness, abuse, and neglect to receive the tools needed for healing to become successful at school and home.
Adult Training Programs
Training space where parents attend employment workshops to obtain a living wage and career, and financial workshops to reduce financial barriers and create household budgets.
Behavioral Health
Offering Behavioral Health, Life Skills, and Counseling, where families address past trauma that stands in the way of well-being. On-site individual and family counseling and classes, substance abuse assessment, and age-appropriate social groups are provided.
Housing Stability
Housing Specialists work with parents as they overcome housing barriers and connect with landlords to obtain safe housing.