BRIDGE HOUSE
5345 ARAPAHOE AVE 5, BOULDER, CO 80303 www.boulderbridgehouse.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Bridge Houses mission is to address immediate survival needs of individuals experiencing homelessness and provide resources which lead to employment, housing, personal stability and healing. We believe that it is crucial to provide basic services like access to outreach case management, and food to individuals experiencing homelessness in our community. But we use these services to connect people to our transitional services like Ready to Work and case management in hope of engaging them in discussion about what they need to get on their feet. We meet people where theyre at and use a variety of tools and resources to help them work toward a better quality of living. We invest in opportunities. Based on diversity of backgrounds, challenges and circumstances of our clients, Bridge House understands there is no single solution to homelessness on an individual or a community level. We believe it is our role to provide an array of resources and opportunities to engage people and give them t

Ready to Work:Bridge Houses Ready to Work program is a work-first solution to address homelessness. Ready to Work applies a business approach toward solving increasingly difficult and expensive social problems homelessness, joblessness, and criminal recidivism. Founded on the belief that when given the opportunity individuals experiencing homelessness can and are willing to work, Ready to Work creates paid transitional work opportunities as the core element of a comprehensive program providing a pathway to independence for men and women experiencing homelessness. Ready to Work trainees participate in the three elements of the program including paid work in a Ready to Work social enterprise; housing in a supportive, communal setting called Ready to Work House; and participation in case management for one year before graduating to mainstream employment and independent housing. Immediately upon acceptance into Ready to Work participants are contributing members of the community. Ready to Work House residents go to work every day, pay taxes, pay room and board and call Ready to Work House home for one year. Currently, the program offers employment and housing to 44 men and women.

Community Table Kitchen:Community Table Kitchen demonstrates what is possible when mission and business marry. Opened in 2013, and often described as the most dynamic kitchen in Boulder, Community Table Kitchen transforms lives one bite at a time.We have a triple bottom line.First, at Community Table Kitchen we produce meals for hungry people who have no other access to food. We prepare meals that are healthy, nutritious and balanced by cooking in real-time, from scratch. The Organization partners with the local food bank, Community Food Share, to access donated ingredients and offers the Community Table meal program to serve over 80,000 meals a year to people experiencing homelessness.Second, Community Table Kitchen creates employment opportunities by providing jobs and job training for Ready to Work trainees. We offer meaningful paid work that builds a resume and real-world work experience. Through a mix of on-the-job and classroom training, Community Table Kitchen trainees are taught knife skills, food prep and production, and safe food handling. Trainees complete the ServSafe certification prior to graduating into a full-time food service job.Third, under the leadership of Executive Chef John Trejo, Community Table Kitchen runs three market-based lines of business - catering, wholesale and caf operations. We offer customers competitive, top notch quality and service. Through these ventures, Community Table Kitchen earns revenue to support operations and our social mission.

Path to Home:Path to Home provides a new model for shelter by combining a safe and legal place to sleep with housing-focused case management support services. This new model is consistent with evidence-based, trauma-informed, harm-reduction practices in sheltering. Every Path to Home Navigation client will develop a housing-focused Navigation plan in collaboration with a Bridge House case manager. Plans will include an individualized path for the client to follow, coupled with a one week stay at the Path To Home Navigation Center and Lodge. A one week stay may be renewed into a multi-week stay as needed on the basis of service engagement and/or vulnerability. Path to Home serves 50 clients at all times and all clients have been identified as appropriate through Boulder Countys Coordinated Entry screening process. Bridge House has operated Path to Home program as a demonstration pilot since July 2017. Path to Home was discontinued by Bridge House as of May 31, 2020 to focus on its core competencies of employment training coupled with transitional housing and support services as well as social enterprise. The Path to Home program is fully funded by the City of Boulder, and the funding agreement ended as of May 31, 2020.

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