Education Grows
The Drueding Difference.
Our Life Skills Workshops, offered three times a year, include:
- Nutrition and food safety
- Immunizations and annual physicals
- Communication and conflict resolution
- Budgeting
- Credit repair
- Resume writing and career building
- Access to education
- Household management
You Increase
The Drueding Difference.
After Care is not unique to Drueding Center, but the length of our After Care is. Many transitional housing programs provide follow-up during the first six months, funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. When those funds end, the care ends. We are fortunate because our supporters enable Drueding Center to provide intensive support for up to seven years, making a return to homelessness very rare.
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Community Services
Adult education equips mothers with the skills to enter or re-enter the workforce. Our Education & Community Services staff members work with each new resident to formulate an education and employment readiness plan. We evaluate needs based on the Barriers to Employment Success Inventory and connect residents with on-site opportunities, including computer literacy, workplace skills, and life skills classes and workshops.
After Care Case Management: Whether families are here for an average stay of 11 months or the maximum allowable stay of 24 months, they often need more time to deal with the issues that brought them to Drueding Center in the first place. That is why we stand apart in offering a Voluntary After Care Program that can last up to seven additional years. Over this time, we continue to support mothers and children in reaching their goals and addressing past trauma, so they maintain independence and self-sufficiency.
Drueding Center’s After Care Program provides:
- Ongoing case management, including goal planning, budgeting, time management, life skills, and parenting skills.
- Referrals for job training, continuing education, childcare, and legal issues.
- Information about resources and programs in families’ new communities.
- Referrals to other social service agencies when appropriate.
- Advocacy to assist with landlord disputes, subsidized housing, social security, child support, and mental health.
- Continued access to Drueding Center programs and services, including counseling, childcare, the Learning Center, health services, and special events.
Blueprint Program: The Blueprint Program is a collaborative project of the City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Based on our track record and capacity to deliver excellent services, the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Supportive Housing awarded Drueding Center a contract to provide case management to an additional 300 formerly homeless families per year. We welcome this opportunity to fulfill our mission more widely and to replicate some best practices outside of Drueding Center.
New Neighbors Permanent Supportive Housing: New Neighbors is a permanent supportive housing program for formerly homeless families where at least one member has a documented disability. The program provides rental assistance, housing counseling and case management for 18 families.
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