Clear Point Horizons Transitional Housing

Clear Point Horizons - Our Transitional Housing CondoBackground

In response to a dire need for transitional housing, Beverly Bootstraps Community Services purchased a condominium with assistance from Clear Point Consult, a women owned business, located in Manchester Massachusetts. Clear Point Horizons is designed to provide a stable living environment to a Beverly family who is homeless or at risk of being homeless. This program provides support services to promote self-sufficiency. To date, we have helped 11 families.

Program Qualifications

In order to qualify for housing at Clear Point Horizons the following qualifications must be met:

  1. Must be a family; defined as a minimum of one adult with legal custody and possession of a minimum of one biological or adopted child.
  2. All members of the family must be Beverly residents.
  3. The family must be homeless or in immanent risk of being homeless.
  4. Fall within or below the very low Federal income guidelines.
  5. Provide written documentation reflecting income resources.
  6. Qualify as potential volunteer.
  7. Show potential for eventual self sufficiency coupled with a willingness to abide by the program agreement.
  8. Have a positive attitude toward the program agreement.
  9. Provide all required paperwork needed to complete the application process in timely fashion.
  10. Willingness to participate in weekly case management meetings.

Outreach staff maintains close relationships with local housing authorities; through this relationship we are able to assist and advocate for client who are applying for Federal or State housing.

 

Fund to Prevent Homelessness

About

The Fund to Prevent Homelessness (http://www.ftph.org/) has been helping families since 1989. This organization is a tax-exempt non-profit charity focused on providing confidential assistance to working families who are facing foreclosure or eviction due to unusual circumstances that have depleted their financial resources. The fund supports families that do not qualify for other funding and would otherwise fall through the cracks.

Communities Served – Beverly, Essex, Gloucester, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Rockport and Wenham.

Eligibility Requirements

Meeting with an Outreach Coordinator to confirm other eligibility requirements and provide financial consulting.

    1. Must be a family, as defined as a minimum of one child living with an adult.
    2. Working and able to meet future payments once overdue rent or mortgage is paid.
    3. Facing eviction or foreclosure.
    4. Not qualified for welfare assistance.