RISE helped her furnish her new home, learn valuable budgeting skills, obtain childcare, find new employment. Her case manager also connected her with Advocates for Children’s other programs, including Hope in Your Home and Parents as teachers. Finally, she was connected to Advocates for Children’s partner organizations, such as Bartow Family Resources, which provides family counseling, and the WIOA program, which Chanise took advantage of so she could return to school. Chanise is now in stable housing, has her one-year old son in daycare, has a community of mothers and care takers from the Hope in your Home program to support her, and is enrolled at Georgia Highlands. When she graduates from the program in four months, she has every plan to maintain her stable housing, and even spoke to us excitedly about searching for a new apartment complex with more space for her son to grown in.

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