Promoting Self-Sufficiency

Our Goals:

• Individuals gain and sustain employment.
• Employers have access to an appropriately educated, accountable, and dependable workforce. Individuals live in secure, safe, affordable housing.
• Individuals develop fundamental life skills (e.g., reading, financial management) to be independent and productive in society and contribute to a stable family life.
• Everyone travels safely and affordably within the community when and where they need to.

Vision Council Initiatives

The Promoting Self-Sufficiency Vision Council has recently led an effort to study transportation needs in the Greater Kingsport area. In addition, the group is launching a study to identify major root causes of unemployment as well as building a network of agencies to improve communication of services available in the community.
 

Member Agency Programs

Brown Annex (John R. Hay House): $45,000
Offers a special needs facility for male offenders which provides structured residential treatment services for adult felony offenders twenty-four hours a day for offenders who have special needs & would otherwise be incarcerated.

Frontier Industries (Frontier Health): $60,000
Offers vocational, employment, residential, developmental & community integration services to individuals who have developmental, emotional, and/or physical disabilities.
 
Hope House Fresh Start Program: $23,000
Reaches out with love & support to moms & babies in our community with what they need to grow, succeed & become self-sufficient.

Hope House Restart Program: $23,000
Assists homeless single pregnant women, as well as new mothers and their babies with all they need (including housing) to advance scholastically & become financially independent.

Hosanna House (John R. Hay House): $42,000
Offers a special needs facility for female offenders which provides structured residential treatment services for adult felony offenders twenty-four hours a day for offenders who have special needs & would otherwise be incarcerated.

Interfaith Hospitality Network Family Self-Sufficiency Program: $20,000
Enhances the lives of homeless in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia by providing families with children temporary shelter and assistance to become self-sufficient.

Literacy Council of Kingsport: $32,000
Tutoring Program helps adults & children improve their literacy skills or to learn to speak & read English through one-on-one tutoring with trained volunteers.

Small Miracles Therapeutic Equestrian Center Horses 4 Heroes Program: $10,000
Provides equestrian assisted therapy to veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

“I was left in a parking lot with nothing but a bag of clothes when I was 7 months pregnant.  I was scared, and I didn’t know what I was going to do until someone told me about Hope House.  Now, because of their support, I’m getting to be the best mom possible.” – Stacy, client.