Transitional Housing
Home-Like Transitional Housing
We provide Transitional Housing services which will lead to permanent housing for community members, with unique housing navigation for the elderly, formerly incarcerated individuals who are past the age of retirement, face disabilities and/or lack the skills sets that will qualify them for work.
A home-like transitional setting offers returning citizens something a traditional shelter cannot: the chance to rebuild their lives with dignity, safety, and stability from the very first day. For individuals leaving incarceration or homelessness, many of whom are older adults, trauma survivors, or people navigating complex health and mental-health needs, a shelter environment can feel chaotic, crowded, and overwhelming. The noise, lack of privacy, constant turnover, and limited structure often recreate the very conditions that undermine healing and progress.
In contrast, a home-like setting provides something profoundly different: peace, predictability, and belonging. It allows individuals to reenter community life gradually, with the emotional space to establish routines, regain confidence, and recover their sense of identity. It is in these calm, supportive environments where people begin to cook for themselves again, manage their own schedules, meet with case managers without disruption, reconnect with family, and envision a future they control. CONTACT US TO SCHEDULE A PRIVATE VISIT TODAY--TO SEE WHERE YOUR SUPPORT GOES!
Images of Impact: temp to permanent supportive housing
Through our rapid rehousing and permanent supportive housing program, we begin working with consumers months before reintegrating into communities by providing pre-release case management onsite, all made possible by NJDOC-NJLEAD initiative.
Housing navigation supports are provided to all communities members to ensure Housing as a HUMAN RIGHT, is always ensured.
For some of our consumers, this has been their first time ever signing a lease, and for those who don't qualify due to credit and past conviction barriers, "MASTER LEASING" as HBBKV being a LEASEE is offered.
TRAINING PROGRAMS
Training Programs
Training and Vocational Education courses are provided for our residents and we will work closely with Local Governmental Agencies to ensure that those seeking a license in areas such as Cosmetology etc. are afforded the opportunity free of bias.
Our initial training programs includeS the following:
Combating Food Insecurity
Tackling food insecurity at its source by ensuring low- and no-income individuals and families have reliable access to healthy, dignified, and culturally relevant meals, right on site. We empower our community with the skills and resources to prepare and purchase their own nutritious meals, building long-term food independence. Beyond our doors, we prepare fresh hot meals directly into shelters at no cost to residents, transforming shared spaces into places of nourishment and care. Every donation fuels this work, turning hunger into hope and giving our neighbors the chance to thrive.
On-site Programming & Workforce Development
We conduct Workforce development workshops where we teach our residents essential office skills such as: Typing, Data entry, Filing, Computer software i.e. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc. We serve unemployed individuals and families currently receiving food assistance (SNAP), who face critical barriers to stable employment, including limited job training, lack of childcare, transportation challenges, and unstable housing. By integrating workforce development into housing-related support services, we help them overcome these barriers and build a pathway to living-wage employment.
Pre-Release Care Coordination Services
Providing pre-release case management and coordination services inside New Jersey correctional facilities, jails, halfway houses, and detention centers is essential to giving returning citizens a true head start toward stability. Many individuals leave incarceration without identification, housing plans, benefits, medical care, or community support—barriers that immediately place them at high risk for homelessness, unemployment, and reincarceration.
By beginning our work before release, we ensure that every person has a structured reentry plan, the documents they need, and immediate connections to housing and supportive services the moment they return home. This early engagement allows us to address critical needs, such as securing temporary housing, applying for benefits, arranging transportation, coordinating healthcare, and connecting individuals with family or community resources, before the pressures of reentry become overwhelming.
Path to “Back to School”, Vocational Training & Employment
Resources are provided to our residents that enables them to pursue their education, employment, explore grants and scholarships available to them. We provide them with assistance in applying for the such grants and/or scholarships and acquisition of trade careers.
We also provide Aid to children of our residents up to 16 years old for school supplies, after school programs, camps, prom and graduation expenses in addition to their educational needs as needed.
SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Support for Victims of Domestic Violence
This may be one of the most delicate areas in our mission as it rings very close to home to the experiences of our Founder. Victims of domestic violence should have a safe and private place to reside. It shouldn’t consist of a mere mattress, bathroom stall and four walls. It should feel like a better place than what they have once called “Home”.
We want to ensure that this specific group of individuals possess all within this community that will grant them safety and comfort. By providing resources such as educational programs, secured health checkups and other essentials, this will reduce the risk of them compromising themselves to aggressors and privacy of other residents when having to leave the premises.
We recognized that we may not be able to provide everything on-site therefore residents are given the option for escorts when needed. Assistance is provided to our residents in obtaining order of protections and other safety measures necessary to separate them from their aggressors.
We also provide self-defense courses by professional instructors to teach our survivors techniques they can utilize should they be confronted by their aggressors.