Bridge to Home

This project will see the development of a dog park at Bridge to Home’s new shelter for individuals and families with children. People who have undergone trauma and homelessness can achieve more significant, more sustainable positive outcomes when they can thrive with their dog(s). We want to enhance our trauma-informed environment by encouraging the healthy, organic, real-life therapeutic benefits of time spent with the beloved pets who have accompanied the people (and children) we serve every step of the way through complex journeys.

This funding will support Bridge to Home's work to stabilize families facing the traumas and uncertainty of homelessness. By providing rent support or sheltering families in dignified apartments, we increase their personal & administrative capacity, address medical & mental health, support their children's development, and help them reference their experience with homelessness in the past tense. We hope that this model becomes the standard for providing interim housing for families.

Bridge to Home delivers year-round interim housing and homelessness services at a site that is currently beyond repair. In order to meet the needs of the community, we are constructing a brand-new facility which will expand our programs and services, thereby increasing the rate of housing for our clients. The facility will have 60 shelter beds for individuals plus 8 family units for up to 32 people, a Learning Center for education and employment development, Housing Navigation, and a full scope of services that make the bridge to home possible.