Photos, top left: Homework Club completion celebration.
Photos, center left: Studying at the Homework Club.
Photos, lower left: A Family Self-Sufficiency family moving into their first house.
The Community Services Department is thrilled with our increase of support from its community partnerships; particularly it's increase in community volunteers with our 1999 programs. The Drug EliminationGrant and Family Self-Sufficiency programs have excelled this year with award-winning and high achievements.
Drug Elimination
The "Homework Club" was designed to overcome deliquency,
academic failure, truancy and cultural barriers within our Nollwood
public housing neighborhood. The goal of this program has been to
connect at-risk youth with positive mentoring, increasing self-
reliance that has brought about academic success and positive
bonding to school and community. It is through the support of the
Bremerton School District, and 14 volunteers including
teen mentors; the program has skyrocketed
entering its second year. This successful pro-
gram received the PRAIS Award from the
Pacific Regional Council of NAHRO as well
as the 1999 NAHRO National Award of
Merit for Program Inovation: Resident and Client Services.
Another new program was implemented in 1999. The Housing
Authority received $2,000 form the Kitsap County Substance Abuse
Prevention program to pilot "Teen Challenge" a program designed
to reach 12 to 18 year olds living within KCCHA's communities. The
program is centered on the Challenge Master training to build self-
confidence, cooperation, trust, and bonding among peers in a safe
drug-free environment. Activities take place twice a month
with rotating recreational outings. As a service project,
teens planned and organized a drug awareness carnival
event for younger children. The highlight of the
program is an end of the year
camping trip.
Family
Self-Sufficiency
1999 was an exciting time for
both the Housing Authority and
five families (two, public
housing; three, Section 8) who
graduated with escrow savings
from the FSS program and
moved into home-ownership.
The First-time Home-buyer
Education Workshops have been
successful tools for this
transition into homeownership.
In 1999, the Housing Authority
received a grant from the
Washington State Housing
Finance Commission for their
Olympic Housing Network
program to coordinate these
classes as well as pre- and post-
housing counseling to families
in Kitsap, Mason, Jefferson,
Clallam, Grays and Thurston
counties.
Photo left, Family Self-Sufficiency
family moving into their first house.
1998 Annual Report:
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