Virginia Williams Family Resource Center is the central intake office for all families requesting emergency housing and assistance in D.C. The families would be referred to a homeless shelter, D.C. general hospitals or a housing program such as Spring Road Family Apartments, which provides 28 apartment units for families that have temporarily become homeless, or Valley Place Family Transitional Apartment Program, which has 18 fully equipped apartment units to be used as transitional housing for homeless families with children who have lived in an emergency shelter for at least six months.
Spring Road and Valley Place both provide their clients with employment services, substance abuse counseling, life skill training (parenting, homemaking, budgeting and time management), and general social services including referrals for medical care, child care, and permanent housing placement.
In addition Spring Road and Valley Place, Virginia Williams can refer homeless families to other housing programs throughout D.C. Due to its central role, Virginia Williams is able to track the trend of D.C.’s family homelessness.
Homeless families in need of housing assistance should go to Virginia Williams offices on weekdays
between 8:15 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. to meet with staff members, who will conduct an intake process that includes a screening.
Clients have to be families with children. Virginia Williams, a nonprofit organization that
gets government funding, has served more than 1,600 families in D.C. and assisted more than 400
families in obtaining temporary emergency housing. It has provided scores of families with financial assistance to prevent them from becoming homeless. The resource center also provides employment training and placement.
For more information:
920-A Rhode Island Ave, N.E. (202) 526-0017
www.dccfh.org
