We partner with other non-profit organizations to provide clients with additional supportive services. Uncle Dave's Housing provides counseling resources for job/employment training, benefits enrollment and drug and alcohol counseling. Some of our partners include Strive, Homeboys, Project 180, Pacific Clinics, Los Angeles Housing Authority, Los Angeles Mental Health Department, Salvation Army, Hillsides, Starting Over, Quality of Life, Lake Avenue Church and Huntington Hospital. Many of these agencies provide subsidy payments to cover the $450.00 monthly cost of providing housing to each client. We find that by providing a sense of community, the clients are given the self-esteem to find employment and permanent housing. UDH provides a safe environment that clients can call home and as well as feeling part of a community. Clients can also use UDH as an affordable stepping stone to moving into their own apartment. As funding becomes available we hope to be able to expand our housing to help more in need. All of these organizations have continually referred their clients to Uncle Dave’s Housing to give them a safe place to live.
David Wohlman continues to give presentations and lectures throughout the community on the need for immediate affordable housing. He speaks regularly in front of Volunteers of America, Strive, Homeboys and the Parole Board. There are plans for Felicia Edelman to enter the jails and assist inmates into transitioning back into society via UDH.