Broward Partnership for the Homeless

The Broward Partnership was founded in 1999 to help individuals and families find their way back from homelessness. It is the largest comprehensive homeless services provider in Broward County. The Partnership operates the Central Homeless Assistance Center in Fort Lauderdale and the North Homeless Assistance Center in Pompano Beach providing street outreach, a day respite program, 498 beds of emergency shelter, over 100 units of scattered-site permanent housing interventions in Broward County, rapid rehousing, and a complete array of health and social services for men, women and families with children experiencing homelessness. The Partnership has won best practices awards from the Florida Department of Children & Families and the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development.

The Partnership operates under the firm belief that housing is the primary solution to homelessness. To that end, our programs include street outreach, emergency housing, rapid re-housing, and scattered-site permanent supportive housing. At all housing locations and in collaboration with our partnering agencies, residents are provided with the life changing tools of education, healthcare, job training and employment placement. With the right support – physical, emotional and educational – people can find their way back home. Hope, independence and self-sufficiency are restored.

The Partnership utilizes a trauma-informed, Housing First model of care that has been recognized to be among the most effective in the country. Our Homeless Assistance Centers (HAC) operate as a low-barrier shelters that increase access to shelter for some of the hardest to reach of the homeless population. The express focus of the HAC programs are to rapidly transition clients to a stable housing situation and to provide specialized services to ensure housing stability. A full complement of stabilization services includes case management, nutritious meals, child care, medical care, dental, mental health and substance abuse treatment, counseling and/or education, housing navigation, vocational training and employment services needed to establish self-sufficiency and housing stability.