Project Connect, Incorporated
Programs
Budget
$500,000.00
Description
While Nashville's thriving nonprofit ecosystem provides many opportunities for short-term crisis stabilization, there is a service gap for pathways that move individuals and families from crisis stabilization to long-term self-sufficiency.
Project Connect Nashville (PCN) seeks to bridge this gap with the launch of its new program, CareerConnect. CareerConnect is helping our Nashville neighbors become financially self-sufficient Leaders by providing the training and resources necessary to secure and maintain employment and manage finances. Nonprofit organizations that provide crisis stabilization serve as referral partners for CareerConnect. Our referral partners support these Leaders with immediate short-term support, including transitioning from homelessness and overcoming addiction. Leaders then enter our CareerConnect program to continue to build on the momentum of their short-term success with long-term employment goals.
Beneficiaries
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed, Underemployed, Dislocated
Short-term Success
In 2024, 30 Leaders will gain and maintain employment.
Program Areas Served
Davidson County
$500,000.00
Description
While Nashville's thriving nonprofit ecosystem provides many opportunities for short-term crisis stabilization, there is a service gap for pathways that move individuals and families from crisis stabilization to long-term self-sufficiency.
Project Connect Nashville (PCN) seeks to bridge this gap with the launch of its new program, CareerConnect. CareerConnect is helping our Nashville neighbors become financially self-sufficient Leaders by providing the training and resources necessary to secure and maintain employment and manage finances. Nonprofit organizations that provide crisis stabilization serve as referral partners for CareerConnect. Our referral partners support these Leaders with immediate short-term support, including transitioning from homelessness and overcoming addiction. Leaders then enter our CareerConnect program to continue to build on the momentum of their short-term success with long-term employment goals.
Beneficiaries
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed, Underemployed, Dislocated
Short-term Success
In 2024, 30 Leaders will gain and maintain employment.
Program Areas Served
Davidson County
CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments
| PCN serves families coming up out of homelessness and those that are spiraling down towards it, acting as a safety net for them to find stability and hope. PCN defines poverty in terms of holistic broken relationships to housing, finances, transportation and healthcare (mental and physical). The staff and volunteers of PCN are in relationship with over 100 families in the communities of Madison and Woodbine in Nashville, Tennessee. The families coming up from homelessness find themselves "lost" between services as they are now no longer homeless and lack wrap-around services in the prevention of becoming homeless again. Most of the families can be identified by what Metro Social Services calls "Severe cost-burdened Renters", which is to say that more than 50% of their income is used for housing. More accurately, many of these households spend greater than 75% of their income on housing. This struggle prevents the former prostitute from leaving the "old profession" completely. This struggle prevents the drug dealer from walking away from selling drugs completely. This struggle prevents the addicted from finding hope and they find themselves in a "why even try" mentality. All of these struggles contributes to the 40 million estimated evictions in the United States. Finally, the families that PCN serves have a severe broken relationship to the local church. Shame is often the culprit for this disconnectedness, but also the church often places unmerited expectations on these families and become easily frustrated in sharing their lives and spiritual walk. |
