Your Way Home’s Mission is to ensure that everyone who lives, works, learns, and invests in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania has equal opportunity to live in an affordable home and a thriving community.

Homeless Service Programming

The Your Way Home homelessness response system is a coordinated effort between Montgomery County, the Continuum of Care, and contracted service provider agencies. Anyone experiencing homelessness in Montgomery County can contact Your Way Home to be connected to services for assistance.

  • Coordinated Entry

    • Contracted Provider Agencies include:

      • Montgomery County Office of Community Connections

  • Street Outreach

    • Contracted Provider Agencies include:

      • Access Services

      • Valley Youth House

      • Coatesville Veterans Affairs Hospital

  • Emergency Shelter

    • Contracted Provider Agencies include:

      • Resources for Human Development

      • Family Promise Montgomery County

      • Family Promise of the Main Line

      • Salvation Army

      • Laurel House

  • Rapid Rehousing

    • Contracted Provider Agencies include:

      • Carson Valley Children’s Aid

      • Keystone Opportunity Center

      • Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities

      • Valley Youth House

      • Access Services

      • Laurel House

  • Permanent Supportive Housing

    • Contracted Provider Agencies include:

      • Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities

      • Keystone Opportunity Center

      • 1260 Housing Corporation

      • Hedwig House

      • Family Services of Montgomery County

 

Homeless Prevention

Your Way Home operates homeless prevention programs, including the Emergency Rent and Utilities Coalition (ERUC) and the Eviction Prevention and Intervention Coalition (EPIC).

EPIC is the result of a cross-system partnership between the following organizations:

  • Montgomery Bar Association

  • Montgomery Bar Foundation

  • Montgomery County Courts

  • The Montgomery County Foundation

  • Montgomery County Office of Housing and Community Development/ Your Way Home Montgomery County CoC

  • Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania

Your Way Home follows a Housing First model, and participants at all levels of programming are connected to supportive services as they engage with each agency.

  • Your Way Home also operates Code Blue Cold Weather Emergency Shelter from November-April. Code Blue is declared in periods of extreme, life-threatening weather, defined as a wind-chill factor of 32°F or below

  • Your Way Home is ADA compliant and provides auxiliary aids and services to communicate with people who have communication disabilities.

  • For people who are blind, have vision loss, or are deaf-blind, this includes providing a qualified reader, information in large print, or information electronically for use with a computer screen-reading program.

  • For people who are deaf, have hearing loss, or are deaf-blind, this includes providing a qualified notetaker, a qualified sign language interpreter, real-time captioning, or written materials.

  • Your Way Home can also provide translation services for clients and residents communicating in languages other than English.

We do business in accordance with the Federal Fair Housing Law. Non-English speaking interpreter services are available upon request.