Transitional Housing and Supportive Services

Transitional Housing and Supportive Services is sponsored by Friends of the Mission. Provides affordable housing and support services for individuals, families, and youth in need, focusing on the homeless population in Yolo County.

Mission First Supportive Housing: Edison | Mission First Housing Group Donations from community members like you help us provide essential services so individuals and families living at Mission First Supportive Housing: Edison have the resources they need to live full, healthy and independent lives.

Give now and you can help provide essential services, like health education and screening programs, an onsite food pantry, therapeutic supports, transportation, recreational programs and community events. In 2016, Making it Possible to End Homelessness partnered with Mission First Housing Group to further its mission of ending homelessness in Central New Jersey.

Mission First converted former transitional housing programs Amandla Crossing and Imani Park to Permanent Supportive Housing for homeless individuals and families in Middlesex County. This program is now known as Mission First Supportive Housing: Edison .

Amandla Crossing and Imani Park provide a total of 46 units of safe, affordable and permanent housing combined with on-site support services where residents can access the resources they need to increase health, independence and housing stability. Amandla Crossing: 30 units of permanent supportive housing consisting of efficiency, one and two bedroom units.

Imani Park: 16 units of permanent supportive housing consisting of one, two and three bedroom units It has been a long road for Kenja. Her experience at Imani Park, one of Mission First Housing Group’s Permanent Supportive Housing communities in Edison, NJ, was what helped her move past her addiction and homelessness and into independent living. Click here to read Kenja’s story.

Jamyles is a resident living at Imani Park who struggled for years residing in and out of shelters and battling domestic violence, all while raising her four children. Through the support services offered by Mission First Supportive Housing: Edison and the housing stability we provide, she is on the verge of buying her first home! This is a fantastic outcome and an inspirational story.

Click here to read Jamyles’s story. Ways to support residents of Mission First Supportive Housing: Edison When you make a donation to Mission First Supportive Housing: Edison, you’re helping to ensure that residents have the supports they need to remain successfully housed, get back on their feet and live as thriving members of the community.

Your generous donations help support critical programs and services such as: Individual and group skill building in areas such as tenancy, financial literacy, self -advocacy, goal setting and employment supports Health and nutrition education programs An onsite food pantry, connection to area food banks and other basic needs Emergency transportation assistance Recreational and community building activities like monthly craft classes, community gardening, holiday events and much more!

If you prefer to mail your contribution, please send your check to the below address, payable to Mission First Housing Group: Support Mission First Supportive Housing: Edison Donate food items to Mission First Supportive Housing: Edison’s Food Pantry.

Our program is looking for the following items for the Food Pantry: Fruits and vegetables: Fresh, dried or canned (in water or juice rather than syrup) Note: items with pull-tab cans are preferred when possible. Whole grains: bread; low sugar cereals; rice (brown or white); grains such as quinoa, oats, barley; pastas (including gluten-free) crackers; granola bars and popcorn.

Proteins: canned or vacuum packaged meats, such as chicken, tuna, salmon or sardines. Vegetarian and vegan-friendly protein: canned or dried beans; nuts and seeds; as well as nut butters such as peanut, almond, sunflower. Canned items; soups, stews or pastas.

Note: items with pull-tab can are preferred when possible. Beverages: shelf-stable milk (including plant-based), water, fruit juice, vegetable juice, tea, coffee. 100% percent of your food donations will help to feed your neighbors and community members this holiday season and beyond.

Consider the positive impact a pantry donation to Mission First: Edison could have! If you would like to donate items, please contact Andrea Dean at adean@missionfirsthousing. org to arrange for delivery or pick up.

Thank you for your consideration. Other ways to help the residents of Mission First Supportive Housing: Edison Do you want to do more than make a donation? Here are some other great ways for you to help: Help secure a matching gift from your employer.

Host a fundraising event and donate the proceeds to Mission First Supportive Housing: Edison. Host an essential items supply drive. Introduce your friends, family and colleagues to Mission First Supportive Housing: Edison and encourage them to give.

Do you have ideas you’d like to discuss? Give us a call! We’d love to work with you.

For more information, please contact: Moira Rooney, Director of Philanthropy & Communication, 267. 269. 3331, mrooney@missionfirsthousing.

org Melissa Mascolo, Director of Program Management, 609-373-8550, mmascolo@missionfirsthousing. org Your contribution to Mission First Housing Group is tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. Amandla Crossing and Imani Park are operated and managed by Columbus Property Management, a member of Mission First Housing Group.