About Us
Mission:
Journey Home is committed to fostering a caring community that ensures a home for all. We give life to this mission through:
- Encouraging collaboration
- Facilitating innovation
- Advocating for justice
Goals:
- Implement the Greater Hartford Plan to End Chronic Homelessness
- Support the shelter, housing, and supportive service systems
- Create or replicate best practices through collaborative initiatives
- Measure progress towards ending homelessness
Vision:
That all persons facing homelessness in the Greater Hartford region will have access to safe, decent, affordable housing and the resources and supports needed to sustain it.
History:
- June 2004 – City of Hartford formed a project team to lay the foundation for the planning process to develop a plan to end homelessness in the Greater Hartford Area
- June 2005 – Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness completed by the Mayor’s Commission to End Homelessness
- October 2007 – Implementation plan for the Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness completed by Commission to End Homelessness with more than 150 stakeholders from the public, private, and non-profit sectors
- December 2007 – Journey Home, Inc. launched as an independent nonprofit organization to spearhead the implementation of the Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness
- August 2008 – First Executive Director, Sarah Gallagher, hired
- December 2009 – Journey Home launched Capitol Region Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program
- May 2010 – Journey Home launched the Vulnerability Index Survey and begins tracking medically ‘vulnerable’ homeless
- January 2011 – Second Executive Director, Matthew Morgan, hired
- February 2011 – Journey Home launched the Moving On Initiative
Staff:
Executive Director
Project Manager
Development Consultant
HPRP Manager
Community Organizer Intern
Church Liaison Intern
Board of Directors:
Chair
Judith A. Carey, RSM, PhD
Vice President, Mission Integration, St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center
Vice Chair
Bill Farley
President, CT Region, CB Richard Ellis
Michael Barton
Managing Member, Whys Solutions, LLC
Bishop Tyrone C. Black
Director of Guidance & College Counseling, Cheshire Academy
William Cronin
Retired, Cronin & Company
Mark Fox
Retired, Fox Associates, LLC
Mary Glassman
First Selectman, Town of Simsbury
James F. Kask
International Business Partner, JH Cohn, LLP
Kevin LaCroix
Travelers Insurance
Martin Legault
President & CEO, Corp. for Independent Living
Francesca Martin, PhD
solutions4community, LLC
Dave Martineau
Director of Programs, St. Elizabeth House
Margaret L. Morton
Vice President, Governmental Affairs, Northeast Utilities
Craig L. Sylvester
Reid & Reige, PC
Diane W. Whitney, Esq.
Pullman & Comley, LLC