Stabilization Services
Brookview House is a MA certified nonprofit Minority Business Enterprise that not only provides a safe place to live, but offers stabilization services and other support programs to confront the root causes of homelessness and transform lives. These root causes include: mental illness, trauma, addiction, joblessness and criminal history/involvement. Stablization Services, led by our Integrated Services Team, are offered for up to two years for each family who is placed in permanent housing.
While living in safe, affordable housing, each family member receives Holistic stabilization services necessary to overcome individual obstacles to disrupt the cycle of poverty/homelessness. We also offer these services to members of the community who drop in or are referred to us by a community partner.
In collaboration with a host of Community Partners the Integrated Services Team offers:
• Job Training
• Job readiness and Life Skills Workshops
• Financial literacy Workshops and Trainings
• ESL Programs and Services
• Housing search, including assistance with applications and appeals
• Access to Educational Training and Degree Programs
• Assistance will eliminating barriers to safe, affordable housing like arrearages, CORIs, and poor credit
Brookview has an impressive record of success. Through our programs for homeless women and families we help families develop skills to overcome their challenges.
Our Integrated Services Team has helped 92% of families in our program to leave the ranks of homelessness permanently and achieve stabilization. These numbers only tell part of the story. Our real success is about changing lives.
SUCCESS STORY
“I assumed Brookview would be like all the other shelters we lived in and that nothing would change, but I was wrong. Drug and domestic abuse, and homelessness could have been leading factors in who I would become. But being a part of Brookview allowed me to place my future into perspective. The staff at Brookview helped me graduate high school – which for a while wasn’t important to me. They reminded me that the life I had growing up, the one I witnessed my mother go through, wasn’t the life I had to continue. Today, I have a B.A in Marketing, a job I enjoy. I am a new mother, purchased my first home. That’s the life I want”.
– Shameika
