TRANSITIONAL HOUSING
The Core Transitional Program
The Core Transitional Home is for young adult women within the ages of 18-25. It is a two-bedroom, one bathroom, living room, and a small kitchen/dining area. The apartment is completely furnished, including items such as dishes, cookware and household linens.
What is the purpose of the Core Transitional Program?
The purpose of this program is to provide an apartment where women can save money, pay off debts, regain confidence, and then move into their own home. Our goal is for our women to build their own relationship with God, restore their past hurts with counseling, and relive their life by providing leadership and life skills. This will empower them to give back to our community and live a healthy lifestyle but most important to end the cycle of poverty and repeating the cycle.
What our girls are saying about the Core Transitional Home
“The Core has inspired me to change and to work in an environment that I’m passionate about. It has taught me to try new things even if it’s challenging. The mentoring program allowed me to observe your marriage in a healthy way. This has inspired me to create a healthy standard for when I want to enter a relationship. The Home Experience has taught me how to welcome others into our home and teaching me the life skills of cooking, teaching and preparing a table setting. I have learned that when challenges arise even though I am frustrated I can push through. The relationships I have fostered with the Core has built the person I am today. I have experienced what it is like to have a connection and healthy relationships in a home. My desire is to surrender myself to God and I am thankful the Core has walked beside me in this growing process.” - Female Fort Bend County Resident (Age 20) - February 2022
"The last few years of my life have been very unstable, I had little to no support and the support I did have, had passed away. I decided to try and live on my own because I felt like struggling to pay bills would be easier for me than being emotionally drained by my mom and the toxicity that her home consumed off. I left with little to no money and was doing well for a while. I had a good job and was able to support myself. I started stumbling again due to poor choices in friends and guys. I told no one because in my eyes it would do me no good.
My family is the type of family who would talk down on you before ever offering to help you, but that’s when Crystal came into my life. I was literally suffering in silence, and she popped up, I think God sent her to me. A lot of people have come in my life with the intentions of wanting what’s best for me and to help but never really seemed to follow through and no-one family included has ever went to the extent she has gone for me. I never experienced that type of support and honestly, I am still not use to it. I was giving up I was tired and had lost so much faith in a lot of things including myself but the people she introduced me to; the church and the Dream center is literally a breath of fresh air for me.
I’ve never been anywhere and felt I’ve belonged; my mom would always say “Rosie* nobody wants you around them all the time find you something to do” so that grew on me, and I hated being around people id shy away in a corner and not speak and pretend to be invisible as possible cause those words stuck to me and altered my personality. I was scared that if I talked it’d be considered annoying or if I gave an opinion, it would be stupid and if I voiced how I felt it wouldn’t matter.
I literally had nowhere to go, and a complete stranger took me in her home, her safe place. She trusted me there because of her faith and believes. I will forever be grateful for that. The love and dedication go far beyond the four walls and a Sunday service, its every day, unconditionally. I look forward to my days now, I’m starting to believe in myself again and that something I haven’t done in a long time. “Female Fort Bend County Resident (Age 25) - January 2020
For More Information, Please Contact:
Crystal Gonzalez