BeyondHome

BeyondHome offers a comprehensive approach for families to become self-sufficient for life. At BeyondHome, families work hard to achieve personalized goals for their education, housing, finances, and family. In 1986, Connie Zimmerman was moved by a co-worker at an assisted living facility in Jefferson County who had lost his home despite having a j... ob. She responded by beginning the journey to raise money to get him and his family housed. In 1988, she created a 501c3 nonprofit corporation to help working families get housing and then secure a career that allowed them to stay housed. This new organization became known as Colorado Homeless Families (CHF). Connie started with six HUD homes. Over the next three decades CHF grew to its present status of owning 40 debt free transitional living homes. In 2016, Karen Allen took over as Executive Director and expanded services to focus on a wholistic approach to self-sufficiency through private trauma informed therapy for parents and children. In addition, every adult in the program is required to complete courses in life skills, parenting, healthy relationships, financial literacy and more. In 2020, CHF rebranded to BeyondHome to better reflect the commitment to forward progress. We have come to realize that housing is just the beginning. The possibilities that come with safe, stable housing combined with holistic, supportive services results in the opportunity of a lifetime for working families to truly become self-sufficient for life. BeyondHome continues to assist working families who are experiencing homelessness or who are on the verge of becoming homeless by helping them achieve a livable wage career and the social/emotional/relational/life skills required for lifelong self-sufficiency. BeyondHome serves approximately 200 individuals annually. In 2020, BeyondHome also merged with Women With A Cause (WWAC), a nonprofit partner, in order to continue to lift families out of poverty. BeyondHome now houses the WWAC Scholar Program which helps single mothers find a ...Read More