The Angel House, a leader in the provision of counseling and prevention, is combining its strong background in social work skills with the success of it’s pilot program in breaking generational curses of families living on welfare to propose the establishment of an expanded multi-community program in family mediation. The program would serve as a resource in the metropolitan Detroit area for the growing number of families on welfare who are seeking an efficient, resource to help them work their way through the upheavals associated with welfare. Referrals to the Angel House program would be made by the Department of Human Services, the family courts, local juvenille hearing boards, police, schools, and by families themselves in response to outreach about the program through dissemination of program materials, face to face contact by program coordinators, and publicity through the media.
Over the course of a year beginning in January 2009 the Angel House Program proposes to serve 60 young women who will live at the Angel House to explore the dimensions of family welfare, determine areas of compromise and agreement and fashion a written agreement based on these understandings. We need to get this program started immediately, because we have to build this project from the ground up. Part of the vision is to have the administration offices, cafeteria, laundry mat, sanctuary, child day care center, two seminar rooms, computer room, exercise room, convenient store, storage room, swimming pool, mail room, library, lobby, restrooms all on the first floor and the dorm style living quarters for the young women to live in on the second floor.
Over the next six months, we will work on applications, telephone contacts, and additional paperwork to help families members adjust to our new program to strengthen their lives, and inforce or modify the agreements as circumstances dicate. Successfully, implemented, it is anticipated that the project will achieve the following goals during the period between January 2009 through December 2009: 1) Families will find that they can live without welfare. 2) Families will experience a work history. 3) Families will experience a higher degree of family functioning.
Location:
KRAT & CO
P.O. Box 40629
Redford, MI 48239
(248) 622-0359
Hours:
Twenty-four hours/seven days a week
