Nashville Launch Pad, Inc.
Programs
Budget
$57,250.00
Description
Our year-round apartment shelter is an evolution from our COVID response that included a hotel shelter. This program, the "independent-supported living program," or "ISLP" is a pilot based on the Ali Forney Center in New York City and meets a proven need for stability for LGBTQI indivduals beyond our winter emergency shelter. As a result, young adults now have LGBTQI-affirming options to escape the Nashville heat, not just the cold.
This provides a single-site where our guests experience increased stability and support while working toward their own goals such as housing navigation, increased healthcare and mental healthcare outcomes, employment, or additional education. It also provides a sense of community and opportunities for learning how to live harmoniously in community.
Our "original Launch Pad" model of congregant shelter serves as one of many referral sources for the ISLP.
Beneficiaries
LGBTQI+ people
Unhoused individuals
At-Risk Populations
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
$57,250.00
Description
Our year-round apartment shelter is an evolution from our COVID response that included a hotel shelter. This program, the "independent-supported living program," or "ISLP" is a pilot based on the Ali Forney Center in New York City and meets a proven need for stability for LGBTQI indivduals beyond our winter emergency shelter. As a result, young adults now have LGBTQI-affirming options to escape the Nashville heat, not just the cold.
This provides a single-site where our guests experience increased stability and support while working toward their own goals such as housing navigation, increased healthcare and mental healthcare outcomes, employment, or additional education. It also provides a sense of community and opportunities for learning how to live harmoniously in community.
Our "original Launch Pad" model of congregant shelter serves as one of many referral sources for the ISLP.
Beneficiaries
LGBTQI+ people
Unhoused individuals
At-Risk Populations
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
Budget
$196,305.00
Description
Launch Pad provides safe and affirming emergency sleeping shelter to young adults experiencing homelessness. This shelter is available during the colder weather months of November through March. At every Launch Pad shelter, young people can access a warm bed, hot dinner, showers, breakfast, snack pack for the following day, hygiene supplies, basic medical supplies, basic clothing supplies (socks, underwear, t-shirts, gloves), peer community, support, and necessary community resources. This program is available to up to 20 young people per shelter night, 25 in a weather emergency. Meals are often provided to more youth when the sleeping shelter fills up.
Program Successes
Since 2014, over 20,000 nights of safer sleep shelter have been offered through Launch Pad.
Category
Housing, Shelter - Emergency Shelter
Beneficiaries
LGBTQI+ people
Unhoused individuals
At-Risk Populations
Long-term Success
The 2022-2023 winter emergency shelter hosted 76 individual young adults and increased the number of nights of safer sleep we have offered young adults to 20,000.
Short-term Success
For the 2022-2023 season, 45% of guests were LGBTQI+ while 67% were BI-POC. 85% achieved positive housing placement at the end of the season. Additionally, with 76 individuals served, we reached the majority of ~100 unhoused young adults as indicated by the PIT (point-in-time) count of unhoused individuals in the Nashville area.
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
$196,305.00
Description
Launch Pad provides safe and affirming emergency sleeping shelter to young adults experiencing homelessness. This shelter is available during the colder weather months of November through March. At every Launch Pad shelter, young people can access a warm bed, hot dinner, showers, breakfast, snack pack for the following day, hygiene supplies, basic medical supplies, basic clothing supplies (socks, underwear, t-shirts, gloves), peer community, support, and necessary community resources. This program is available to up to 20 young people per shelter night, 25 in a weather emergency. Meals are often provided to more youth when the sleeping shelter fills up.
Program Successes
Since 2014, over 20,000 nights of safer sleep shelter have been offered through Launch Pad.
Category
Housing, Shelter - Emergency Shelter
Beneficiaries
LGBTQI+ people
Unhoused individuals
At-Risk Populations
Long-term Success
The 2022-2023 winter emergency shelter hosted 76 individual young adults and increased the number of nights of safer sleep we have offered young adults to 20,000.
Short-term Success
For the 2022-2023 season, 45% of guests were LGBTQI+ while 67% were BI-POC. 85% achieved positive housing placement at the end of the season. Additionally, with 76 individuals served, we reached the majority of ~100 unhoused young adults as indicated by the PIT (point-in-time) count of unhoused individuals in the Nashville area.
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee
