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.
CIVIC & COMMUNITY Engagement program-mindset to momentum
Training & Development Programs
Mindset to Momentum: Building Leaders. Strengthening Movements. Advancing Justice.
Over the course of 12 intensive weeks, our Mindset to Momentum program equipped our re-integrated community members with the leadership skills, confidence, and strategic tools needed to become powerful advocates and organizers.
This cohort was made up of individuals who have historically been shut out of civic spaces and denied meaningful opportunities to participate in policy conversations that directly impact their lives. Through intentional investment of time, mentorship, and resources, we worked to change that reality.
Mindset to Momentum is more than a training, it is a leadership development pipeline.
Participants engaged in hands-on learning focused on, Leadership development and community organizing, public speaking and persuasive storytelling, legislative advocacy and policy education, coalition building and stakeholder engagement, presenting and testifying in formal settings, including at Congress.
By the end of the 12 weeks, participants demonstrated measurable growth in their ability to articulate policy priorities, present lived experience as expertise, and confidently advocate in public forums. Several graduates prepared and delivered formal presentations in legislative spaces (Bill, S-4871)-WELL DONE, transforming from community members excluded from civic participation to credible leaders shaping public dialogue. THIS SPACE MATTERS! These individuals bring critical insight into the systems that affect millions of families. Yet they are often excluded from the very rooms where decisions are made. Mindset to Momentum bridges that gap, not by speaking for them, but by equipping them to lead. Join our next cohort, SUMMER 2026
TRAINING PROGRAMS
Training Programs
Training and Vocational Education courses are provided for our consumers and we work closely with Local Governmental Agencies to ensure that those seeking a license in areas such as AI Optimization & APP Building, Cosmetology, HVAC, Trade schools, etc. are afforded the opportunity free of bias.
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.
Through our partnership with Toastmasters International, we offer coaching and development opportunities for individuals who aspire to become confident public speakers and community leaders. Participants are guided in strengthening communication skills, building self-confidence, practicing effective storytelling, and learning how to speak with clarity and purpose in both professional and personal settings.
This work is especially important because many individuals have powerful stories, ideas, and lived experiences but have never been given the tools or safe space to use their voice.
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.