Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center (Next Move) and Goodwill Industries announce strategic alliance
SACRAMENTO, CA, August 4, 2014
– Next Move, formerly Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center, and Goodwill Industries of Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada announced they have teamed up to help move more families from homelessness and unemployment to stable housing, jobs and self-reliance.
Both organizations believe the real solution to helping people break the cycle of poverty and homelessness includes a comprehensive and coordinated approach that provides short-term housing and employment opportunities. This unique partnership will position Next Move and Goodwill as regional leaders in delivering services to homeless families.
“Next Move has been focused on moving homeless families from instability in housing to housing stability,” said Carolyn Brodt, Executive Director of Next Move. “This strategic alliance will leverage both our agencies’ respective expertise in moving people to self-sufficiency.
“Goodwill’s mission footprint in Sacramento will be broadened by its relationship with Next Move,” said Joe Mendez, President and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada. “Our vocational programs will offer Next Move’s clients opportunities to develop job skills that are portable to other industries. The close mission alignment of our organizations creates a real opportunity to assist Sacramento homeless families move into stable housing situations and employment.”
Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna adds, “The alliance between these two great organizations is a classic example of the whole representing something greater than the sum of its parts, and our entire community will benefit from that unique synergy.”
Goodwill will also provide financial support of Next Move’s efforts to renovate and expand its family shelter located in Oak Park. Additional partners for the family shelter expansion and renovation project include HomeAid Sacramento and USA Properties. When completed, the family shelter will grow from 55 beds to 85 beds for families with children, and includes additional sleeping rooms, a commercial kitchen, dining room, SETA Head Start space, and classrooms.
About Next Move
Next Move (formerly Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center) started as a family shelter program in 1972 to meet the basic needs of seven homeless families. The agency now serves an average of 600 people each day providing individual success plans, self-sufficiency workshops and groups on living skills, parenting, budgeting, housing, health and mental health care, housing relocation assistance, employment readiness and community support services. Next Move’s shelters, temporary housing and permanent housing, bolstered by an ever-growing list of services, continues to make visible and measurable changes in people’s lives. Next Move’s 55-bed Family Shelter provides short-term emergency housing and supportive services to 13 homeless families for up to 30 days. Support services help people come to terms with the reasons behind their homelessness, obtain resources, secure permanent housing, and develop plans that will help them maintain housing.
About Goodwill
Established in 1902 in Boston and 1933 in Sacramento, Goodwill Industries is a community based non-profit that offers diverse job training and placement programs for the disabled, disadvantaged, and disenfranchised. Goodwill puts people to work in their own communities, helping to build self-sufficiency and human dignity. Goodwill Industries of Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada served 21,740 people in 2013; more than 90 percent of total revenues are dedicated to job training, mission related activities, and mission related payroll.