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Donate to help us end homelessness in our community. Your contribution can make a real difference in providing housing solutions for those in need.
Together, we can create a safe and secure environment for everyone. We can't achieve this goal alone, and your support is crucial.
Welcome to the Heredia Haven Project
The 2023 Homelessness in Arizona Annual Report, provided by the Department of Economic Security, stated "As of January 2023, it is estimated that 14,237 Arizona residents were experiencing homelessness, which is a 29% increased from the January 2020 estimate of 10,979 [people]." While homelessness in Arizona has been steadily rising, so has the unsheltered population by increasingly high rates. DES disclosed, " In the last five years, unsheltered homelessness has increased by almost 73%, from 3,549 [people] in 2019 to 7,615 [people] in 2023."
At Heredia Haven, we are dedicated to providing the unhoused population with safe and stable housing while they are given the tools to rebuild their own futures. We believe that 14,237 people is 14,237 too many and we won’t stop until we’ve ended homelessness for all.
Department of Economic Security. (2023) Arizona Department of Economic Security SFY 2023 Annual Report on Homelessness. https://des.az.gov/file/34408/downlo
What is Cohousing?
Cohousing has been established since Hunter-Gatherer societies and was a way to share their homes and their resources with each other in an egalitarian manner. The first modern cohousing community was built in 1972 in Denmark and housed 27 families.
Each intentional housing or cohousing community looks different, runs differently, and has different values. In cohousing communities like Heredia Haven, every adult, couple, and family has their own private bedroom and bathroom while sharing a communal space for meals and recreation.
Our Plan to Solve Homelessness in Maricopa County
Safe shelter is a human right. By following the Housing First model, we provide a private tiny home to each individual, couple, or family with children for up to 2 years while also providing physical health services, mental health services, substance use services, and education about strengthening healthy relationships and identifying unhealthy bonds.
Providing housing is necessary for survival, but at Heredia Haven, survival is not enough. By providing services along with safe and stable housing, we are giving our unhoused neighbors a chance to rebuild their own future.
Our Services
A Private Safe Space
Every household is ADA compliant, has a bed, storage, and additional beds for households with children.
At Heredia Haven we used a trauma-informed approach to personal hygiene by providing residents with their own private bathrooms inside their tiny home.
Therapy Services
A top priority for Heredia Haven is having individual therapists on sight to have the ability to meet with clients once they have settled in rather than waiting for months just to have an intake.
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Individual Therapy
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Couples Therapy
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Family Therapy
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Group Therapy
Workforce Training
Our vision is to build a self-sustainable community where we grow our own food, cook for our community members, maintaining the community, helping with construction within the community, and crafting items to sell for revenue.
By participating in workforce training, residents adjust to a schedule, reintegrate day to day responsibility, strengthen self-worth, and create healthy and manageable goals.
Our resident positions include Agriculture Specialist, Nutrition Specialist, Maintenance and Construction Specialist, Art and Crafting Specialist, Custodial Specialist, and Mechanic's specialist. These different positions help the community running efficiently.
Time
Tragedy, trauma, and a string of unfortunate events is all it takes to become homeless. It takes time to recognize and reorganize trauma that lives within our brains and we support our residents to process over time within our accepting and loving community. All residents can stay for up to two years in the community.
Physical Health Services
Working closely with community health partners, residents will be able receive standard medical care until they are able to establish with their own Primary Care Physician.
At Heredia Haven, we have an Occupational Therapist who is on site to help develop positive routines and healthy occupations for residents and residents with disabilities.
Substance Use Treatment
Not every person experiencing housing instability does or has used substances, however, it is not uncommon for substances to be used as self-medication which is why Heredia Haven will provide 12 step support groups and connect with medical substance use treatment clinics to help clients through sobriety.
Substance use is not permitted within our community and residents must detox before they can be admitted to avoid conflicts within our community.
Our Goals
There is so much that we would like to do at Heredia Haven but these ideas take time and funding. As we continue to grow and establish ourselves, please consider donating your time, money, and food as we are beginning outreach efforts to the unhoused community.
Below are some goals that we have for our future.
Green Energy Ran
100 Tiny Homes
We are reaching out to Arizona Solar companies who would like to donate solar to the tiny homes and community building. Each home will be 100% solar powered!
Bilingual Staff
We hope to have more someday, but we're starting with just one at a time. The cost of construction and furnishing is a high cost!
250 Person Capacity
On our staff, we will have fluent Spanish speakers and fluent English speakers. If we have a resident who speaks another language, we will not turn them away. We will find a way.
Funding
It is estimated that this project will cost $6 million without community donations. We are relying on our community in Arizona to help us get closer to solving homelessness together.
With an estimated average of 2.5 people per tiny home, we are preparing to be able to feed and care for up to 250 residents.
Community Partners
We are continuing to reach out to community partners to connect with services and materials that can help our residents. If you are a community agency and you want to partner with Heredia Haven, please contact us!
Our Team
Building a community from the ground up takes incredibly innovative minds. Meet our team of board members who are dedicated to solving homelessness in Phoenix, Arizona!
