HFI Partners With Dumas Wesley, Salvation Army

Mobile-based Housing First, Inc. (HFI)’s board of directors recently voted to enter into two new agency partnerships, with the Salvation Army in Mobile County and Dumas Wesley Community Center in Baldwin County. HFI has pledged $300,000 to the Salvation Army’s Mobile-based Family Haven to provide emergency housing for homeless families and offer the life skills needed to maintain permanent housing. HFI committed another $300,000 to help support the Dumas Wesley’s newly established Baldwin County Family Village, a 13-unit facility in Fairhope, which will provide transitional housing and support services for women and children experiencing homelessness. “As HFI does not offer emergency shelter or transitional housing, this unique partnership… will allow HFI to extend our service reach by helping fund those agencies that do provide that service. At this time, we have no plans to fund any other agencies, and HFI is not accepting grant applications,” explained HFI CEO Derek Boulware.