Gramercy Court

The two-year affordable housing program at Gramercy Court provides 16 efficiency units of transitional housing linked with an array of social services for single parents ages 18-24 with children. The program immerses parents in comprehensive services to increase their personal assets, self esteem, parenting and employment skills, education, and financial literacy. Upon graduation, each parent will have achieved one or more of the following in addition to moving into long-term housing: received a completed high school diploma or GED, enrolled in  college or vocational training, and/or obtained steady employment.

Gramercy Family Center

Provides full-day care and developmentally appropriate curriculum for children living at Gramercy Court and from the local community. The Gramercy staff work together with families to create a positive child-centered living and learning environment that fosters self-esteem, relationship building, creativity, diversity and good communication. As one of very few licensed child-care centers serving low-income families in the area, the Gramercy Family Center empowers each child with hands-on, developmentally appropriate, learning experiences that promote literacy and build the skills necessary for future success. 

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Success

• 75% attended school and/or found employment
• 90% relocated to affordable permanent housing
• 95% participated in our childcare and parenting program
• 100% percent participated in case management

 
Currently all families are participating in childcare, parenting, and case management.
 
Anecdotal information also offers a view into our accomplishments: Gramercy alumni remain connected to the agency, and each other, and often call and visit.  Our graduates are now employed as bus drivers, vocational nurses, county caseworkers, administrative assistants, and in a variety of other fields.  A favorite story is of a former client who boarded a bus and realized that the driver was her former next-door neighbor at Gramercy Court.  She rode well past her stop to the route’s end at the beach and back, in order to reminisce with her friend.
 
Our most important accomplishment is the fact that not one of our clients who successfully completed the program has had her child become a second-generation foster youth.  This serves to reaffirm our commitment to this important mission.