PROGRAM HISTORY

CPH has received dozens of requests over the years for information regarding our program success. We have hosted over 400 tours for local organizations and individuals as well as communities from around the nation. Our staff members have also traveled to other communities to provide consultation and advice. Some of these include, but are not limited to:

• Boston, Massachusetts
• Cincinnati, Ohio
• Columbia, South Carolina
• Dallas, Texas
• Denver, Colorado
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Little Rock, Arkansas
• Macon, Georgia
• St. Louis, Missouri
• Tallahassee, Florida

Case Study #1

Fort Lauderdale, Florida – there were numerous trips between CPH staff and the Broward Partnership for the Homeless, Inc. before Broward built its first homeless assistance center in 1999. The center, located on Sunrise Boulevard was modeled on CPH’s Chapman Center in downtown Miami. The design, arranged as a perimeter building inwardly focused on a courtyard was the work of Robert Chisholm and Wolfberg Alvarez of Miami. Residents are sequestered in a protected, well lit building with a pleasant exterior finish that does not indicate the building’s purpose. There is only one entrance where security screens all persons entering the facility. A grassy courtyard, brick pathways and open space allow the facility to be inviting rather than depressing. Classrooms and program services line the first floor along with the men’s dormitories. Women’s and children’s dormitories are located on the second floor.

Broward also modeled its program after CPH. They have a continuum-of-care enabling each resident to access a rehabilitative approach that extends from emergency shelter to transitional and permanent housing. Substance abuse therapy, job training, and educational courses are held in the eight classrooms and a dining hall. The kitchen and barber shop offer residents the opportunity to get on-the-job experience. In the administrative wing, a clinic with its own waiting room supplies medical care and offices offer consultations by social workers and government bureaucrats. Children go to an on-site day-care and after-school facility and have the use of an outdoor playground.

Case Study #2

San Antonio, Texas – CPH hosted several visits from Haven for Hope staff and affiliated organizations. Mr. Brown then traveled to San Antonio for three days of further discussion about site plans, program and operations services.

Haven for Hope opened its first building on April 15, 2008 and has plans for a campus-wide grand opening in the spring of 2009 to encompass almost 300,000 square feet of buildings on 23 acres. They have thanked us for our mentoring services and consider themselves “a direct off-shoot of (our) operation”.