Mission

The Partnership To End Homelessness is a homelessness prevention organization. Forty years of experience and community input determined our mission of ending homelessness by preventing it. Our values – compassion, inclusion, integrity, professionalism and social justice – steer our strategy and operations as we implement our approach of stepping in before New Yorkers lose their homes. Our community is New Yorkers at risk of or experiencing homelessness; primarily women and children of color, immigrants and the LGBTQIA+ community. A majority are living with the complex trauma that can result from experiencing domestic violence, childhood abuse, sexual violence and poverty. Without access to therapy and the grounding of a safe home to heal, they are at increased and repeated risk of homelessness. Because going into a shelter causes significant disruptions to work and school, less than half of all children who go into the shelter system graduate high school, putting them on a fast track to intergenerational poverty and homelessness.