Program Outcomes
Addiction
More than 70% of the Massachusetts homeless population reports significant involvement with alcohol and/or other substances.
- hopeFound provides addiction treatment annually to 1000 men and women.
- 72% complete and graduate from hopeFound addiction treatment programs, a rate 111% higher than the state average and 84% of the graduates continue in treatment.
Unemployment
57% of people living in local homeless shelters are unemployed.
- 64% of the clients enrolled at hopeFound’s IMPACT Employment Services are placed in jobs, a rate exceeding national benchmarks of 53%.
Housing
80% of Massachusetts homeless resources are allocated to emergency shelter; only 20% are allocated to housing and prevention. Each homeless individual in Boston annually consumes $28,436 in healthcare costs. The same cost is reduced to $6,056 annually when individuals are housed.
- In 2008, hopeFound housed 159 individuals.
- 92% of those housed for at least one year kept their housing.
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