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Homeward Bound of WNC’s mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community through permanent housing and support. Our work is anchored in the belief that housing is a human right. Our AHOPE Day Center serves as the front door to services for individuals experiencing homelessness. We offer prevention, rapid re-housing, and permanent supportive housing to help neighbors find stability. Since adopting the Housing First model in 2006, we’ve moved over 2,658 people into their own homes. Visit https://homewardboundwnc.org/ to learn more.
Our Values:
We believe that housing is a human right, integral to self-worth and dignity.
We believe in the absolute value and worth of every single human being.
We believe that homelessness is a solvable problem.
We believe that all services should be offered with respect and empathy, in the spirit of hope and recovery.
2024 Impact:
Homeless Services
1,548 unique individuals served at the AHOPE Day Center.
123 unsheltered neighbors supported by our street and library Outreach team.
Housing Services
94 housing units transformed into fully furnished homes by delivering $101,392 worth of community donations.
127 landlord partnerships, arranging 56 leases to provide stable housing.
66 households assisted, including 11 move-ins, through the NC Healthy Opportunities Pilot.
83 people prevented from entering homelessness.
We ended homelessness for 43 people, including 36 veterans.
Please use “Homeward Bound” or “Homeward Bound of WNC” as the only references to our organization. Please do not to use the names of programs or initiatives to refer our organization. For example:
Proper usage: “I’m volunteering at Homeward Bound’s AHOPE Day Center.”
Improper usage: “I’m volunteering at AHOPE.”
Our measure of success generally is determined by measuring the percentage of clients in our permanent supportive housing programs who remain housed 12 months after placement. Given the many variables that impact chronically homeless clients, and consistent with other studies, we count as “housed” those who have graduated from supportive housing to other housing, those who move to health care facilities, those who have moved out of the area, and can no longer be tracked; those incarcerated, and those who have died. For example, at The Woodfin, of the 37 clients who have been housed over five years, 92% remain housed. Seventeen clients live at The Woodfin now; five have “graduated” to other housing; two have moved to nursing facilities; seven have died, and two have been imprisoned. Only four clients have been evicted.
