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| Housing Services
SCCAA's Housing Program provides homeless families with shelter and housing,
and helps them become self-sufficient. Services are delivered through
intensive one-on-one support that empower families by giving them the tools,
direction, and resources to build on their own strengths.
>Emergency Family Shelter
>Transistional Housing
>Emergency Family Shelter Expansion Project
"Raise the Roof"
a benefit at Gretchen's in Mount Vernon
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What's
New With Housing?
>Community Action Receives $5,000 Donations
from SICBA and Windermere
Foundation for Emergency Family Shelter Help
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Emergency Family Shelter |
The Emergency Family Shelter consists
of six individual apartment units located in Mount Vernon, where
homeless families may stay for up to 60 days. Each unit is provided free
of charge with essential utilities, furnishings, and household items. An
SCCAA family development specialist works with each family to plan for
the future, access resources, create a household budget and savings
plan, and take the necessary first steps toward stable, permanent
housing and economic self-sufficiency. Each year, this program
provides more than 100 families with safe, temporary shelter and assists
them with their plans for future independence. More than 80% of
these families move from our shelter into safe, affordable housing. |
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Transitional Housing
SCCAA’s Transitional
Housing Program helps families obtain
temporary housing and develop economic self-sufficiency
skills while they transition from homelessness to stable,
permanent housing. SCCAA provides rental subsidies to families for up to
two years with private and public
landlords in Skagit County. During this time, SCCAA family development specialists work closely with the
families to develop skills in job readiness, money
management, mental health, and wellness. With the
assurance of safe transitional housing, parents are freed to
work on employment and life skills that can help them secure
permanent housing for the long term. SCCAA enrolls up to 20 families at a time
in the Transitional Housing Program.
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For more
information about Community Action's Housing Services, call (360)
416-7585. |
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