Simply Amazing Resident Resource Center (SARRC)  bring resources to 50 plus residents in Oakland Park and PineTree Village Apartments.

The SACRC program is built on the recognition that individuals who are homeless, their families, and their community allies are critical resources that can effectively extend, enhance, and improve self-efficiency.  SAHP programs are designed to achieve its goals by focusing on support services, community resources and motivation that already exist within most communities; employing a peer-driven, strength-based, and wellness-oriented approach that is grounded in the “culture(s) of support”; and utilizing existing community resources.

Because peer services emphasize strength, wellness, community-based delivery, and provision by peers rather than experts, these services can be viewed as promoting self-efficiency, community connectedness, and quality of life, all important factors in sustained independence.  The SAHP support services will be provided at the onsite Community Resources Center which is designed to provide a mix of services that includes activities in the following categories:

Emotional support refers to demonstrations of empathy, caring, and concern that bolster one’s self-esteem and confidence. Peer mentoring, peer coaching, and peer-led support groups are examples of peer-to-peer support services that provide emotional support.

Informational support involves assistance with knowledge, information, and skills.  This type of support can include providing information on where to go for resources or might involve teaching a specific skill.  Examples of peer support services that provide informational support include peer-led life skills training (e.g., parenting, stress management, conflict resolution), job skills training, citizenship restoration, educational assistance, and health and wellness information (e.g., smoking cessation, nutrition, relaxation training). 

Instrumental support refers to concrete assistance in helping others do things or get things done, especially stressful or unpleasant tasks.  Examples in this category might include providing transportation to get to support groups, child-care, clothing closets, and concrete assistance with tasks such as filling out applications or helping people obtain entitlements.

Affiliational support offers the opportunity to establish positive social connections with other transiting people.  It is important for people in transition to learn social and recreational skills in a supportive alcohol- and drug-free environment.  Especially in early transition from homelessness – when there may be little that is reinforcing about having a place to live that is why socialization may help prevent relapse back to homelessness.  In addition, community and cultural connections can be important in helping the person transition establish a new identity around health and wellness as opposed to an identity formed in relation to the cultures of homelessness.