TRANSITION HOUSE
425 E COTA STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101 www.transitionhouse.com

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to alleviate poverty, and restore self-sufficiency and dignity.Transition House offers emergency shelter, transitional housing, and service-based affordable rental housing to homeless families. With intensive case management and onsite free education, families learn budgeting and money management skills, increase their employability by improving their proficiencies, and learn effective parenting and communication techniques. Families that participate in Transition House's programs can and do achieve lasting economic independence, and experience a healthier family dynamic.

Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to alleviate poverty, and restore self-sufficiency and dignity.

Family Homeless Shelter and Housing ProgramsTransition House Family Homeless Shelter is Santa Barbara's only comprehensive shelter and anti-poverty program that exclusively serves families with children. Transition House's purpose is to move families to financial independence so that they may acquire permanent housing and live free of public assistance. Transition House provides emergency shelter for 90-120 days to families with children. In addition to shelter, clients receive three meals a day, toiletries, clothing, career counseling, help with parenting skills, referrals to appropriate social service agencies, free licensed childcare, basic medical care by a nurse, and instruction in budgeting and money management. Families are also required to save money towards housing. Over 75% of Transition House families move on to permanent housing. Transition House also offers transitional and permanent housing programs. In 2019, the agency served a total of 372 unduplicated people through its shelter, transitional housing and rapid rehousing programs: 65 percent children and 35 percent adult; 72 percent single-parent households and 28 percent two-parent households; and 70 percent Latino, 18 percent Anglo, 10 percent African American, 1 percent Asian and 1 percent Native American. In 2019, Transition Houses onsite licensed infant care center served 19 babies from very low income families, enabling parents to seek and maintain full time employment as well as acquire and sustain housing. The center also served 18 babies whose families were not low income and able to pay market rate costs, thereby helping to underwrite the cost of scholarships for poor families. All children were tested to assess achievement of industry-accepted developmental milestones. Staff worked with parents providing interventions or referrals for babies who were experiencing delayed development or other health and wellness issues.

Programs for Homeless ChildrenBecause of disadvantages homeless children face, they are three-to-four times more likely to become homeless as adults than their housed peers. Transition House has crafted a variety of children's programs aimed to intervene in the cycle of family homelessness. The programs, including our Infant Care Center, Homework Help and Evening Enrichment, and Technology and Literacy for Children (TLC), are free and offered on-site at the family homeless shelter. They operate year-round and serve approximately 313 unduplicated children per year.

Homelessness Prevention Program: The Family Support Center Transition House offers anti-poverty services, emergency rental assistance and case management to local families that are at risk of losing their housing. The Family Support Center offers free classes in English as a Second Language, beginning computer skills, career development, parenting, life skills, and money management. Childcare is free for classes. Clients also make use of our Employment Resource Room, where they can construct resumes, call potential employers, and search for employment using the Internet. In 2019, 417 community individuals who were at risk of becoming homeless were served along with 38 families were assisted with Emergency Rental Assistance Funding.

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