Housing Partnership Inc.

Filing Period

Oct 1, 2012 to Sep 30, 2013

Signed

Jun 23, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$8,233,993

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Mentoring Programs - Our mentoring school-based programs operate in the high-need geographic locations of Pioneer Park Elementary in Belle Glade and Highland Elementary in Lake Worth. The mentored youth have an opportunity to form lasting relationships with significant mentors who provide guidance and support. Participation in a nurturing, stable relationship with an adult in their life increases their protective factors and helps the youth reach their fullest potential. The goal is to provide mentees with an opportunity to develop a positive relationship that will impact their success at school, at home and decrease their risky behaviors while interacting positively with their peers and increase their social-emotional health. We facilitated over 100 mentor / child matches this year. Mentoring at Highland Elementary is funded by Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County. Mentoring at Pioneer Park is funded by the United Way of Palm Beach County. FY 2012- 2013: Mentoring at Highland operating since 2008/09-Over the year, the program managed a total of 64 matches and currently has 41 active matches. -There were 23 closures during the year with an 87% successful closure rate (child & adult are matched for at least 12 months before closure)-Out of the 23 closed; 3 were successfully matched more than 2 years and 4 were matched over 4 years! -Parent Engagement: 85% participation rate in the program. Examples of parent / child / mentor activities include: gardening service projects, beach clean-up projects, "How to Help with Homework", "How to Have a Good Teacher-Parent Conference", Parent Appreciation dinner, & Back to School BASH (help with school supplies)FY 2012- 2013: Mentoring at Pioneer Park operating since 2010/11-Over the year, the program managed a total of 41 matches and currently has 30 active matches. -Of the 13 match closures, four (4) had been successfully matched for at least 2 years and five (5) met the 1 year benchmark -Parent Engagement: 88% participation rate in the program. Examples of parent / child / mentor activities include: community service projects, School SAC / Family Involvement Night, Parent Appreciation dinner, & Back to School BASH (help with school supplies) Youth Enrichment Academies - Our Youth Enrichment Academies are licensed after-school programs and summer camps serving school-aged children 5 - 12 years old living in Belle Glade and Pahokee. Children enjoy a wide variety of activities and programming that develop the assets in youth which lead to resilience and success. Our after school programming has been serving the Glades community for 17 years. -We served over 200 children this year in daily "out-of-school" programming. -Greater than a 95% rate of regular attendance (missing less than 3 days in a month). This corresponds to healthy school attendance patterns that promote "children being eager & ready to learn".Safe Kids of Palm Beach County is a community-based program that offers safety education and materials to families to decrease accidental injuries in children from birth to 14 years of age. Unintentional and preventable injuries are the leading causes of death for children under the age of 14 in the United States. We offer educational materials for all injury mechanisms including drowning prevention, home safety, pedestrian safety, bicycle safety and child passenger safety. Safe Kids is supported by Children's Services Council.-Over 53,000 reached at Community Events aimed at promoting safety education & awareness-4000 residents educated at safety presentations-630 car seats distributed to families in need-1400 car seat inspections performed -25 newly trained child passenger safety technicians

Activity 3

Housing Division-Housing DivisionThe Housing Services Division of Community Partners, assists families to break through barriers that keep them from the housing of their choice. Our focus is on services which assist families gain access to and preserve sustainable, safe, and decent affordable housing; maximize resident choice and potential in the market; and empower consumers with housing knowledge and effective coordination of available public and private resources (including our clinical and community services) at numerous points in the housing continuum. Our homeownership programs include HUD certified homebuyer counseling and education, foreclosure intervention, nonprofit mortgage lending, financial education and counseling and community land trust homes.Housing Partnership operates a foreclosure intervention program that specializes in advocating on behalf of at-risk homeowners in order to get sustainable loan modifications. Since the program's inception five (5) years ago, our staff has saved more than 400 homes from foreclosure, all with sustainable loan modifications. We also assist homeowners who are unemployed or underemployed to receive mortgage assistance and assist homeowners current on their mortgage but are underwater with principal reduction assistance through the Florida's Hardest Hit program.Our homeownership program has helped over 1000 people buy homes. Experience has shown that buyers who receive high-quality counseling and affordable mortgages have significantly lower default rates. We offer competitive mortgage products for first mortgages. Our loan fees generate social enterprise dollars which go back into directly helping the next homebuyer.The Prosperity Centers offer Palm Beach County residents a one-stop source of financial empowerment services, including a matched-savings program for homeownership, help in resolving credit issues, money management assistance, benefits assistance and access, education and job assistance, and free income tax filing services. We operate the program in partnership with the United Way of Palm Beach County. Persons with special needs often face significant challenges in finding and maintaining decent, affordable housing. Our Supportive Housing Services are designed to help overcome these barriers. We serve adults with a chronic mental illness and addictions, extremely low-income families with special needs, and households with disabilities. Many clients served by our counselors have a history of hospitalization or other institutionalization, while some have been homeless or would face homelessness without our programs, such as youth aging out of foster care with a mental health diagnosis. In the past three (3) years, 100% of our clients have reported improvement in their housing situation. Housing Partnership is a charter member of NeighborWorks America and achieved Exemplary Status in 2012.

Filer

EIN

59-2704597