Organization: Homeless Prenatal Program (San Francisco)
Project: CHW Documentation
Award Date: October 2003
Award duration/amount: 1 year, $15,000 total

HPP was founded to break the cycle of poverty and abuse for homeless women.  One of HPP's programs, the Community Health Worker (CHW) Training, prepares formerly homeless mothers to move into the workforce, using an innovative training methodology and philosophy.  CHW also builds partnerships with corporations for job placement and to address negative stereotypes about homeless women.  To date, CHW has graduated 61 formerly homeless women: 56 have found full-time employment-- exceptional results for this high-risk population.  HPP is the first community agency in SF to hire former clients as staff.  The model created by HPP has been adapted by many other organizations.  To share its innovative and successful model with the field, HPP is now documenting the CHW program.

In 2003, Three Guineas awarded the Homeless Prenatal Program a one-year $15,000 grant to develop and document the Community Health Workers program.

For more information on this project email Martha Ryan, Executive Director, at , call (415) 546 6756, or visit www.homelessprenatal.org.