Our Programs
In 2019, Rainbow Village received 3,082 requests for admission to our program
Family homelessness is widespread and traumatic. It can lead to long-term health, educational, and behavioral challenges and heighten the risk for future violence, criminal activity, poverty, and mental health issues.
At Rainbow Village we provides trauma-informed care that addresses the impact of homelessness. We also provide a safe place where dignity, self-respect, and hope are restored. But, we don’t work for our families, we work with our families as they shed the mantle of homelessness by truly listening to them and guiding them to wholeness.
All Rainbow Village families arrive to a fully-furnished apartment with individual beds. This “soft landing” allows families to experience the comfort and security that is possible in life and encourages them in their pursuit of upward mobility, self-reliance, and stability.
Rainbow Village does not discriminate on the basis of gender, age, race, color, religion, physical or mental disability or handicap, sexual orientation, gender, identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, veteran status or ancestry.
We use the Two-Generation approach to ending homelessness
“The two-generation approach focuses on creating opportunities for and addressing the needs of both vulnerable parents and children together,” according to the Aspen Institute. Their research finds that for families to thrive they must have access to high-quality early education and supports for children, assistance to strengthen parents’ skills and tools to improve their economic standing.
Rainbow Village uses this evidence-based approach in our comprehensive program.
We use the Arizona Self-Sufficiency Matrix approach to develop and assess each family’s progress toward 20 self-sufficiency goals.
Classes include budgeting, home and automobile maintenance, life skills, parenting/caregiving, financial planning, career counseling, and credit building. We also offer job training, educational scholarships, and on-site GED preperation.
The on-site after school program focuses on values, virtues, good decision-making, positive attitudes, giving back, high standards of behavior and sound principles to carry with them for a lifetime.
Through our partnership with View Point Health all family members have access to mental health services on the Rainbow Village campus.
Our freestanding Early Childhood Development Center provides a safe, stable, nurturing environment necessary for development achievement.
We provide post-residential families independence programs for up to eight years. Many of our mentors and counselors in the adult program are past residents.
We need your help!
Volunteer
Rainbow Village is committed to making sure our volunteers are well-trained and oriented to our work before we put you into action. Our Community Engagement staff coordinates internally with staff to provide a seamless and rewarding experience for our volunteers.
Donate
Our village has grown, from accommodating 18 to 30 families! Please join us in serving these 30 families by making a tax-deductible donation to help maintain the high-quality program that has transformed more than 1,000 lives since 1991.
Partner with Us
Since 1991, Rainbow Village’s numerous, long-standing collaborative partnerships with civic clubs and community organizations, faith-based groups and companies of all sizes have yielded the volunteer power and program support necessary to provide the full complement of services necessary for families to break the cycle of homelessness, poverty and domestic violence.
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