CaringWorks was created to help low-income individuals and families improve their quality of life. We provide opportunities to build vocational skills and find gainful employment. We offer childcare to help mothers be successful at work, and services to help others prolong their sobriety or stabilize their mental illness and reduce the need for institutional care. The support we provide has helped thousands of households.

CaringWorks’ services are tailored to address the identified needs of specific resident populations, based on the target population’s profile and input. Services typically fall into three categories.

Special Needs
Residents identified as having special needs would include formerly homeless individuals in recovery from substance addiction and/or those with chronic physical or mental illness or developmental disability. Services, which include case management, addiction counseling, and crisis intervention, center on increasing or stabilizing individual functioning and independent living. For those residents needing extra support to maintain independent living, CaringWorks works with partnering agencies to provide additional services such as personal hygiene and household maintenance, and ambulatory assistance for the mobility impaired.

Personal and Family Development
Services are targeted to develop or enhance skills that result in increasing personal and economic independence. Typical services include preventive health promotion and education, life skills supports to improve areas such as household budgeting and parenting, GED preparation, computer literacy, employment readiness and referrals to vocational training and employment.

The Learning Link Program was created by CaringWorks to provide a welcoming, nurturing environment for school age children where they can receive homework assistance and other educationally enriching experiences in a safe, supervised setting.

The mission of CaringWorks’ Learning Link Program is to provide a quality educational and recreational program that fosters the development of school age children through planned activities that aim to enhance their physical, social, emotional and intellectual development.

Community Building
Services help foster neighborly interaction among residents and, importantly, encourage social and civic involvement in the greater community. Typical services and activities include community socials, movie and game nights, field trips to cultural and sporting events, and book clubs. Staff also assists residents with leadership skills and when sought, facilitates formation of resident associations.