HomeFront’s mission is to end homelessness in Central New Jersey by harnessing the caring, resources and expertise of the community.
We lessen the immediate pain of homelessness and help families become self-sufficient. We work to give our clients the skills and opportunities to ensure adequate incomes, and we work to increase the availability of adequate, affordable housing. We help homeless families advocate for themselves individually and collectively.
Our History
From our earliest days, we have honed our tools and our procedures as a “first responder,” as we worked toward our mission to end homelessness in Central New Jersey.
HomeFront began over 30 years ago, as a group of volunteers bringing hot meals to families experiencing homelessness in local motels who had no food and no way to prepare it. Almost immediately, HomeFront volunteers also began doing more than bringing food, such as providing clothing, hygiene products and other basic needs for the families as well as enriching experiences for their children. From our earliest days, we have honed our tools and our procedures as a “first responder,” as we worked toward our mission to end homelessness in Central New Jersey.
Now we are poised on a new organizational phase that looks to build on our legacy of high-quality emergency services.
Since its founding, HomeFront has grown into a sophisticated social service agency with a comprehensive slate of programs designed to help families in economic crisis address whatever issues they are facing. We offer safe and secure emergency housing, feed thousands of hungry households a year, provide other necessities such as diapers, personal and household items, and offer comprehensive wraparound services to support families. Now we are poised on a new organizational phase that looks to build on our legacy of high-quality emergency services.
We recognize that we cannot end homelessness only by responding once it has already happened but must do what we can to ensure more families never experience the pain of homelessness in the first place.
Our long-standing mission statement begins with an audacious goal: we seek to end homelessness in our community. We recognize that we cannot end homelessness only by responding once it has already happened but must do what we can to ensure more families never experience the pain of homelessness in the first place. To that end, HomeFront has recently embarked on a multi-year effort to strengthen our capacity to forestall the crises that derail the ambitions and stability of families in our community, with programs and staff working more “upstream” on preventing homelessness.
