Connections

Here We Thrive consolidates MEND’s burgeoning intensive case-management services and is our most exciting intervention in the lives of those we serve. With the goal of individual and community resiliency in mind, we are combining the former Family Support Program and Pathways to Wellness and adding a new employment component to better serve the community in one hub. Here We Thrive is staffed with professionals willing and able to support participants through a process of uncovering and overcoming their (in many cases, long-term) challenges.

The program targets those MEND clients who live below the poverty line, with low levels of academic attainment, and with a desire to change their circumstances. Through Here we Thrive, our existing services are modified, integrated and enhanced with the addition of employment services.

• Pathways to Wellness focuses on chronic health conditions that limit a person’s maximum functioning, with a goal by developing habits that lead a healthier lifestyle and passing those habits on to their children.
• Connections: Resource Coordination focuses on supportive services, resources coordination, goal setting and achievement in selected domains. 
• Gateways: Employment Services includes transitional work experience for participants placed at MEND through external paid work experience programs, job readiness, placement, and retention support services.