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Native American Connections is pleased to introduce Surprise HomeBase, a new emergency youth housing shelter community located at 12215 W. Bell Road in Surprise, Arizona. This facility will be the only emergency shelter for homeless youth in the West Valley duplicating similar services currently provided at HomeBase in Central Phoenix.
NAC hopes to provide approximately 40 beds for homeless youth, ages ranging from 18-26, an adjustment from Phoenix HomeBase based on experiences with and observations of the youth, their needs, and our capacity to serve them. Surprise HomeBase will focus on safe housing / shelter, addressing medical and behavioral needs, improvement of educational record, improvement of employment status, support for the creation of a positive, stable housing plan, and continued support through transitional housing for youth aged 18-26 at Saguaro Ki, on the Central Phoenix campus.
NAC’s programs for homeless youth help them to regain safety and stability, to maintain healthy living, to complete their high school education, and to exit to a positive destination with continued education or employment. Surprise HomeBase program operations will provide dormitory-style living, three meals a day every day, health assessments, and the support of education and case management specialists.
Stay tuned for more on this much needed emergency shelter.
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A "chronically homeless" individual is defined to mean a homeless individual with a disability who lives either in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter or in an institutional care facility if the individual has been living in the facility for fewer than ninety (90) days and had been living in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven or in an emergency shelter immediately before entering the institutional care facility. In order to meet the ‘‘chronically homeless’’ definition, the individual also must have been living as described above continuously for at least twelve (12) months or on at least four (4) separate occasions in the last three (3) years, where the combined occasions total a length of time of at least twelve (12) months. Each period separating the occasions must include at least seven (7) nights of living in a situation other than a place not meant for human habitation, in an emergency shelter or in a safe haven.
Federal nondiscrimination laws define a person with a disability to include any (1) individual with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; (2) individual with a record of such impairment; or (3) individual who is regarded as having such an impairment. In general, a physical or mental impairment includes, but is not limited to, examples of conditions such as orthopedic, visual, speech and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), developmental disabilities, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.