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Parenting Resource Associates, Inc.
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Because children need adults who care & understand
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FAMILY HOMELESSNESS
Parenting Resource Associates' Commitment to Ending Family Homelessness in Massachusetts
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Currently, PRA is providing intensive parenting skills training and development services through our
COMPASS for homeless families - Comprehensive Parenting Skills and Support - program at Sandra’s Lodge and Hestia House in Waltham, MA. Olivia’s, a sister shelter to Sandra’s and Hestia, is awaiting funding to join in COMPASS services.
Parenting Resource Associates is working with the following organizations to support homeless families and end family homelessness.
The National Center on Family Homelessness
The One Family Campaign
Middlesex Human Services Agency
Boston Institute for Art Therapy
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CURRENT FACTS ON FAMILY HOMELESSNESS
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COMPASS is Parenting Resource Associates’ innovative program designed to meet the many parenting-related needs of families in family homeless shelters.
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Family homelessness is higher in the United States than in any other industrialized nation, with between 5 to 10 percent of American families experiencing homelessness each year.
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In Massachusetts, there are approximately 10,500 homeless families, including over 20,000 homeless children. Of those homeless families, approximately 60% live in Boston.
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A woman, living in Boston, with one pre-school age child and one school-age child would need to earn $42,000/yr to pay market rate for an apartment, child care, health care, and other living expenses (Massachusetts Family Economic Self-Sufficiency project). The average working mother coming off of welfare earns $17,000/year. This is the reason that one-fifth of homeless heads of household can retain a job and still not have enough money for housing.
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