New Beginnings for Women and Children
New Beginnings for Women & Children provides up to three months of shelter services including food, clothing personal care items and household needs, in conjunction with an intensive Poverty & Homelessness Recovery component. Aftercare services are provided up to two years, or as needed, to families that move from the shelter into their own apartments or the NBWC Apartment Program to ensure successful transition from poverty and homelessness to independence and self-sufficiency.

Services are available to women and their children who are homeless or about to become homeless (i.e. eviction), have no other resources, are able to care for themselves and their children, do not require chemical dependency treatment, desire to become self-sufficient and are willing to participate fully in the NBWC program.

Homeless children are at higher risk than other children for an increased incidence of mental health disturbances, delayed physical development, drug & alcohol abuse, involvement with the legal system, poor school attendance & performance, health problems, stress reactions, poor coping abilities and underdeveloped socialization skills. Homeless children are raised with skills to survive poverty - not to develop self-esteem and independence or to successfully participate in the community. They are easily attracted to the power of gangs, seduced by the potential for money gained through illegal activity, and they attempt to block out their reality through drug and alcohol abuse. Without intervention and support, mothers are forced to concentrate on the details of survival. New Beginnings offers homeless families the chance to experience being employed, living in a financially stable household, and developing skills necessary to succeed in the community, and model a healthy lifestyle to their children.

www.nbwctucson.org

Our Family
Our Family makes our community a better place to live, to grow up and to grow older by providing a continuum of services to at-risk children, youth, families, seniors and neighborhoods in four main areas -- counseling, education and prevention, homeless services, and services to older and disabled adults.

Its homeless services help young people who have no one else to turn to. Whether they’ve run away or been kicked out of the house, whether they’re pregnant or with children or going it alone, whether they want help to reunite with their families or need the skills to make it on their own, Our Family offers the shelter and support they need.

Created in October 2005 by the merger of Family Counseling Agency and OUR TOWN, Our Family has a combined history of more than 75 years of service to our community. It is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children Inc. and licensed as a behavioral healthcare institution by the Arizona Department of Health Services. Services are available in English and Spanish.

www.ourfamilyservices.org

For more information about our Partners please visit their web sites.