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JoCo IHN gives temporarily homeless families a hand up. We are an interfaith homelessness intervention program that helps restore stability to situationally homeless families in Johnson County. We have fed, housed, educated and empowered hundreds of wonderful people, thanks to our network of 40 congregations and individual supporters. Last year, more than 75% of our guests obtained permanent housing after 90 to 180 days with us.
JoCoIHN provides a safe, supportive and loving home between homes for motivated and capable people who have nowhere else to turn. We lift them up. We empower them with financial training, job search support and case management. We get them back on their feet.
Unexpected job layoffs, long-term illness or illness of a child, divorce or death of a loved one can turn entire families homeless almost overnight. JoCo IHN is an interfaith homelessness intervention program that helps restore stability to these motivated and capable “situationally homeless” families in Johnson County.
JoCo IHN works with a network of 40 generous congregations who transform their places of worship into modest accommodations. Each congregation hosts guests for four or five weeks per year. Our guests stay with JoCo IHN for a total of 90 days with the possibility of one 30-day extension.
We are humbled to have wonderful volunteers who provide all of our guests’ meals during their stays. We can’t possibly thank our volunteers enough for providing 734 people (including 427 children) with more than 150,465 meals and 50,155 overnight accommodations since our organization began in 2004.
Our congregations become our guests’ homes and our volunteers and other guests become their families. Many guests keep in touch with us and each other long after they graduate and most reunite on the very best day of the year: the JoCo IHN holiday party day.
With their basic needs for food and shelter met, our guests focus on learning to break the cycle of homelessness. During the day, they stay in the JoCo IHN Family Center where they learn essential life and financial skills from our case manager and licensed clinical social worker. Programs include:
Budget counseling using the FDIC’s financial literacy Money Smart curriculum
Family and individual case management
Job search assistance
Education and connection to community resources
Education focusing on life, parenting, and coping skills
While in our care, guests create and share weekly budgets with us, document 10 job searches a day and save 100% of their disposable income for use once they leave our organization.
With your donations, we can continue to help motivated and capable local families break the cycle of homelessness so they can land stable jobs, find happiness and begin to contribute to our community again.
