Friends,
First, thank you for helping us meet our $10k matching campaign! With your help, we can continue to serve housing-insecure young adult men like Moses, our newest resident, who is working full time as a classroom aid, learning to establish strong foundations for his finances, and planning to enroll in school to begin his academic journey towards becoming an elementary special ed teacher.
Second, we were excited to share our vision for the next season with those who came to the open house. We want to share our vision of a Host Home Program with you, too.
You can watch a video of the presentation below or read a short summary about a Host Home Program
We envision expanding our impact by identifying, equipping, and supporting people with extra rooms in their house who want to host young adult men in their communities in order to empower them with lasting life skills towards their adulthood.
We want to identify hosts who have room in their homes and hearts for a housing-insecure young man in their community to provide him a safe and stable living situation at fair market value rent (or less).
We want to equip hosts to screen for the right candidate, craft a suitable living arrangement agreement, and understand and clearly communicate their own unique values, boundaries, and expectations.
We want to support hosts with opportunities to meet other hosts for peer support, to grow in mentorship skills, and to receive care for themselves.
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Q: What’s the next step towards this Host Home Program?
A: We will be collecting surveys from people with lived experience as a host and/or those who have an extra room in their house (whether they want or do NOT want to be hosts) so that we can better understand the concerns that may arise in considering the invitation to open up homes to young adult men.
If you want to participate in our survey, we’d love to hear from you! We have two surveys you can choose from:
Host Home Program: This survey is for those of you who have an extra room in your home to host a young adult man (whether you want to host or not).
Lived experience: This survey is for those who have lived experience hosting young adult men.
Thank you, friends, and God bless you!
Mike Liaw
