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Transitional Living Program
After 10 years of successfully operating an emergency youth shelter, YS launched the Transitional Living Program (TLP). The program serves homeless youth and pregnant/parenting adolescents ages 16-21 for up to 1 ½ years in a 24-hour supervised apartment setting. TLP allows youth to build life skills and save money so that they can move out on their own and be become independent and contributing members of society.
One of the program’s primary objectives is to help young people to identify their strengths as well as those areas they want to develop. As all YS programs, TLP uses a strengths-based approach, assisting residents in finding solutions and accomplishing goals that will take them to a new level of independence. Success in the program is measured by how well each individual succeeds in meeting the goals they set.
TLP can house up to 7-8 young people at any given time, some of them with infants or young children. TLP residents have busy schedules with school and work. They are asked to pay a sliding scale amount of rent, which is returned to them in full when they leave the program.