The Lord's Place

The Lord's Place is aiming to prevent and end homelessness in Palm Beach County, Florida. Our organization has identified three broad goals that support this objective:

1 – Increase our Inventory of Housing
2 – Maximize our Café Joshua Job Training and Employment Services Program
3 – Expand the impact of our Homeless Outreach and Street Engagement Programs

The Lord's Place has identified the following strategies to achieve its goals:

Increase our Inventory of Housing

We continue to focus on increasing our inventory of housing to serve more local homeless families and individuals. Strategies to achieve this goal include: improving the management of our current inventory to maximize operational efficiencies in preparation of additional projects; researching additional housing opportunities, including affordable housing; and more comprehensively integrating the Housing First model into existing housing programs.

Maximize our Cafe Joshua Job Training and Employment Services Program

The Lord's Place's goal is to maximize our Cafe Joshua Employment Program. Strategies to achieve this goal include: broadening our target population to include homeless, formerly homeless and low-income individuals with barriers to employment; growing our current social enterprise businesses to train more jobseekers and generate additional revenue to be reinvested back into the agency; and implementing new best practices to promote long-term job retention among graduates that have transitioned to competitive employment.


Expand the Impact of our Research and Evaluation

The Lord's Place has established a dedicated Research and Evaluation Department to oversee the collection and analysis of data, track outcome measures, conduct program evaluation, and pursue research opportunities to strengthen our organization. Our goal is to expand the impact of the department by increasing program evaluation activities on existing programs and services; pursuing new opportunities to collaborate with local educational institutions on research studies; and securing more speaking engagements to share valuable information based on our extensive experience serving the homeless.

The Lord's Place is confident in its ability to achieve its goals. Our capabilities include a high-performing staff team, strong reputation in the community, well-established partnerships with leading funders and service providers, and a comprehensive fundraising campaign to support our mission.

The Lord's Place continues to make steady progress towards its goals. Below is a synopsis for each of the three goals identified above:

Increase our Inventory of Housing

Burckle Place, our 10-bed housing program designed exclusively for single homeless women, is in the midst of an expansion to build a new on-site facility that will provide affordable housing to program graduates. The expansion will double the capacity of the program and assist residents more effectively by offering graduated steps to independence and the opportunity to save money for their transition to community-based housing.

The Lord's Place is also in the midst of welcoming the inaugural group of residents into Halle Place, our new transitional housing program in West Palm Beach for women who are transitioning back into society after incarceration. The program, which increases our housing inventory by 14 units, offers critical support and assistance to ex-offender residents as they begin to rebuild their lives.

We are also anticipating the upcoming expansion of our Operation Home Ready Program, a scattered-site permanent supportive housing program for chronically homeless individuals. With the support of a new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant award, the program will increase its capacity to 35 participants.