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7617 Mineral Point Road • Madison, WI 53717 • (608) 664-9622 (Voice) • (608) 664-9633 (FAX)
Total Funds: $186,096
education, children, independence
Neighborhood Outreach • Works with neighborhood leadership groups to provide outreach to specially targeted, high-risk, troubled neighborhoods. This outreach is designed to expand YMCA youth social development and recreational programs into areas of the city that don't have access.
Adaptive Skills • Provides services, activities and support to low-income individuals with special needs or families with a child who is developmentally and/or physically disabled. Services provided include social development programs, health enhancement, family support, physical education, competitive opportunities, respite care, recreational and leisure activities and transportation.
Youth Resource Centers • Provides afterschool drop-in recreation and education programs for middle school youth in Middleton, Sun Prairie, Monona/Cottage Grove and Mount Horeb.
Youth Zones • Provides a variety of classes and clubs helping teens get involved in groups that will benefit their needs and interests.
101 E. Mifflin Street • Madison, WI 53703 • (608) 257-1436 (Voice) • (608) 257-1439 (FAX)
Total Funds: $843,984
education, housing, safety
Basic Housing Resources • Provides on-site, short-term, emergency housing for single women and their families and long-term, affordable housing for low-income and/or elderly single women.
Counseling Support Services • Offers supportive services and programming for permanent (single women) and short-term shelter (homeless families) residents. These services help integrate these individuals into community life while easing their transition from dependence to independence.
Girls Inc. • Intensive afterschool, evening and weekend leadership program for girls ages 9 to 14. Girls Inc. empowers girls to reach young adulthood healthy, strong and confident by giving them skills and guidance to make healthy choices.
House-ability • In this Housing First model, homeless families are placed in permanent housing as quickly as possible and are provided stabilizing support services to prevent a recurrence of homelessness. The House-ability Program is a collaborative effort of The Road Home (formerly IHN), the Salvation Army, and the YWCA Madison. House-ability will provide permanent housing, with rent subsidies and case management services, to 23 homeless families with a disabled adult. The program will utilize scattered site apartments in the community. House-ability Program goals will include: 1) move homeless families quickly out of shelter into affordable permanent housing, 2) help families successfully maintain stable housing, 3) assist families in working toward their personal goals. Provides partial match funding for the HUD funded permanent supported housing and case management for homeless families with a disabled family member to allow them to establish stable housing.
Housing Counseling • A counselor assists and advocates for families, primarily single women with children, who access emergency shelter services at the YWCA, the Salvation Army and Domestic Abuse Intervention Services. They also help locate safe, affordable permanent housing and other community services.
Job Options • Helps unemployed and underemployed people gain a clear focus of their employment skills and interests, develop plans for attaining their career goals and obtain and retain gainful employment.
MCD/YWCA Internship • A training/internship program that is a collaborative effort between the YWCA Madison and MCD, Inc. designed to provide classroom and paid on-the-job training to prepare women and minorities to work in the printing and manufacturing industry.
Predolin Housing First: Rapid Re-Housing • In this Housing First model, homeless families are placed in permanent housing as quickly as possible and are provided stabilizing support services to prevent a recurrence of homelessness. The Rapid Rehousing Program, funded by a special grant from the Predolin Foundation, is a collaborative effort of The Road Home (formerly IHN), the Salvation Army, and the YWCA Madison. The program provides initial housing access costs, limited term shallow subsidy and intensive goal oriented case management to 45 Dane County families with minor children. The program relies on strong partnerships with local landlords. Rapid Rehousing goals include identifying families who are able to achieve stability with strong emphasis on establishing child focused housing stability and include: 1) move homeless families quickly out of shelter into affordable permanent housing, 2) help families successfully maintain stable housing, 3) assist families in working toward their personal goals.
Second Chance Apartment Project • Matches 15 homeless families with congregations that will sign leases with landlords and pay rent for up to two years for the families. Congregations will assign mentors to families for social support and encouragement.
Second Chance Financial Counseling/Management • Provides financial management and advocacy services to homeless and pre-homeless families. Services include credit counseling and financial mentoring.
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) • In collaboration with Meriter Hospital, nurses who have advanced training in the medical-forensic examination of sexual assault victims staff this service. They are trained to respond to the psychological and emotional trauma that may be present after an assault.
Skilled Trades Partnership • Collaboration of successfully existing programs of the YWCA of Madison and a skills trades program based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The collaboration of programs are Job Options and Transportation Alliance for New Solutions (TrANS), both of YWCA, and Building Industry Group, Skilled Trades Employment Program (BIG STEP), based in Milwaukee. The partnership will allow a broader resource base to work towards helping low income, underrepresented women and minorities find careers in the trades.
Third Street • This program provides up to two years of on-site housing and personalized support services to homeless mothers with children under three years of age. The goal of this program is to help these mothers learn healthy parenting skills and eventually become self-sufficient in their community.
YW Transit • YW Transit is divided into a Day ride program and a Night ride program. The day program offers rides to medical appointments for people with MA and group rides contracted through various agencies. The Night program will offer rides between 8pm and 2am daily, to provide safe rides for people who are at risk of sexual assault, but is available to others in need as well, including people who need a ride home from work after a night shift. Priority will always be given to crisis calls.
YOUTH SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN (merger of Briarpatch and Community Adolescent Programs)
1955 Atwood Avenue • Madison, WI 53704-5220 • (608) 245-2550 (Voice) • (608) 245-2551 (FAX)
Total Funds: $167,382
education, safety
Children of Violent Homes • A joint effort among Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, Family Services, Briarpatch and The Rainbow Project that addresses the needs of children and youth in homes where domestic violence is occurring. The program focuses on the intervention and prevention of domestic abuse and provides support services for participants.
Youth Groups • A multifaceted program which addresses the needs of at-risk youth vulnerable to prostitution, pornography, battery, teenage pregnancy and other issues and problems common to adolescents. The program utilizes support groups, group and individual counseling, adult mentoring, peer support and group discussions.
Community Peer Court • Community Peer Court is an alternative program to the traditional municipal court and juvenile justice systems. Peer courts are for first-time juvenile offenders between the ages of 12 and 16 who have plead guilty to an ordinance violation. Participation in Community Peer Court (CPC) offers eligible youth an opportunity to receive a meaningful sanction from a jury of their peers. Youth who successfully complete their peer court sentence will have the applicable charges expunged from their record.
PROJECT HUGS, INC Parent Advocacy & Case Coordination • Provides support, intervention, education and empowerment for families with children abusing drugs and alcohol. The goal is to help families with chemically dependent children become more sufficient and in control of their situation by "demystifying" the service system.
Runaway & Homeless Youth Services • Provides 24–hour counseling and crises intervention to runaway and homeless youth to ensure their safety. If they cannot remain in their homes because of violence or other dysfunction, teens are placed in support and foster homes.
Youth Job Center • The Youth Job Center provides employment skills training, job placement, and job coaching services to at-risk and court-involved youth in Dane County. Youth Job Center (YJC) services promote positive youth/adult relationships, individual responsibility, development of employment skills, and pride in personal accomplishment. To date, nearly 1,100 Dane County Youth have participated in the program.