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Fresh Start provides for basic needs such as food, clothing and housing while offering case management and supportive services. Women create an Individualized Goal Plan (IGP) that identifies the goals they have and the steps to take to reach self sufficiency. The plan acts as a road map for women to advance to reach the goal of self-sufficiency and is designed to utilize the woman’s strengths to overcome the barriers she identifies as contributing to her homelessness.
Case managers provide the supportive services necessary to implement and support this plan. Through the attainment of employment, acquisition of life skills, maintenance of sobriety, and exploration of personal strengths women move along their path to a new home of their own, one where they are healthier, stronger and more independent.
Fresh Start also involves program requirements versus just a place to sleep. In addition to working with a case manager on their IGP, as a part of programming residents are to complete hours of volunteer service to a community-based organization each week, attend educational workshops at the house, and perform household responsibilities. Additional programming may include: supervised child visits, attending Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous, participating in domestic violence support groups, individual counseling, alcohol or other drug treatment/relapse prevention, complying with the justice system, seeking and maintaining employment, medication monitoring, and attaining medical care.
Team members work with women to ensure services are available and appropriate. Team members also provide information and referral services. Fresh Start strives to not duplicate services; instead we work with the women to connect them to existing services in the community. This both avoids duplication and strengthens the long term support network the women have outside of Fresh Start.