individuals served in a year
residential properties, 181 beds
employment rate among residents
relapse rate, against a 40% national average
returned to the community per $1 invested
Residents arrive from treatment centers, correctional facilities, and shelters with almost nothing – no savings, no credit, often no driver’s license or phone. What they carry is a hard-won desire to turn their lives around, and they are stopped at the door by an entry fee they cannot pay. Some find a way. Many do not.
Goal: 150 residents housed in the coming program year, with every dollar matched 1:1 by Access Foundation.
No bedding. No toothbrush. Often no coat, and no undergarments. For someone beginning recovery, the absence of these ordinary things compounds shame at exactly the moment self-worth matters most. Every incoming resident receives a basket of essentials on their first day – bedding, hygiene supplies, a towel, seasonal necessities.
Goal: 100% of roughly 300 incoming residents receive a basket at intake.
A new resident owes rent from the day they move in. Even when they land a job in their first week – and most do – a standard payroll cycle leaves them without a dollar for two more. They go financially underwater at the single most dangerous moment in their recovery, accumulate debt, and often leave. This program enrolls residents in structured daily activity from day one, paired with a stabilization allowance that carries them to their first real paycheck.
Targets: 90% in permanent employment within 30 days; 75% avoid entering housing debt.
It fails when a job offer expires while someone waits for a tuberculosis clearance she can’t afford. It fails when an employer, unsure what a past conviction means, quietly sets a strong application aside. This initiative removes three small, specific, solvable obstacles – and each one is genuinely the whole distance between almost making it and making it.
Year-one goals: 50 bikes in service, 200 health clearances, 15 employers enrolled, 20 residents placed.
Within thirty days of arriving, our residents have housing, sobriety, and income. But the jobs available in early recovery pay the rent and nothing more. A resident can do everything right and still be one car repair from losing all of it. This fund moves people from the job that pays the bills to the trade that builds a future – and we let each resident choose the trade them-selves. For most, it isn’t being handed something new. It’s getting back something they lost.
A credentialed graduate earns $25–$30 an hour – and stops needing subsidized support entirely.
Years of survival-mode living – fast food, convenience items, meal lines – leave a gap in one of the most foundational skills there is. Poor nutrition compounds the physical toll of recovery and works as a daily, low-grade stressor. Residents gather twice a month with an instructor, cook three complete freezer-safe meals, and go home with food in hand and a skill they keep.
A resident who can feed themselves and their household is a resident ready for what comes next.
Public transit doesn’t reach a 6 a.m. shift or a spread-out worksite. Residents without a license or a vehicle miss interviews, treatment appointments, court dates, and training. Transportation is one of the most persistent hurdles our population faces, and one of the most directly solvable. This program puts vehicles and coordinated, door-to-door rides behind the people who need them.
Targets: 80% of participants report improved ability to attend work, training, and appointments.
Each year, scholarship recipients are recognized by name in front of employers, civic leaders, faith organizations, and service partners. A few share what stable housing has made possible for them. For many recipients it is the first time an institution has publicly invested in them, and the first time a room full of people has applauded something they did. That matters more than it sounds like it should.
An intimate breakfast ceremony for 25 scholarship recipients and roughly 60 community leaders.
A refurbished clinical chemistry analyzer would let Access Foundation and our behavioral health partners perform laboratory-quality drug screening on site, with dramatically faster turnaround than outside labs. Faster results mean faster clinical decisions, earlier detection of relapse, and support arriving while it still makes a difference – at a fraction of the cost of a new instrument.
A permanent clinical asset expected to serve thousands of individuals over many years.
In partnership with a licensed clinical researcher and a university IRB, this study analyzes what actually predicts recovery outcomes in our housing model: which admission characteristics, which length of stay, which forms of engagement. It also builds the dashboards that put those answers in front of our program directors monthly and our board quarterly.
Three years, seven to nine homes, published findings and a replicable model.
