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SDYS
3255 Wing Street
San Diego CA  92110
(619) 221-8600

 
 Transitional Living Communities

San Diego Youth Services' Transitional Living Communities provides transitional housing and supportive services to 16-24 year old single and parenting homeless and former foster youth since 1992. SDYS' transitional living communities consists of over 50 apartments in various neighborhoods of San Diego County. Out goal is to support youth as they transition to independence. Currently, SDYS provides housing and supportive services to approximately 85-95 youth and 35-45 youth children each year.

Take Wing

Take Wing Transitional Living Program (TLP) is an apartment complex located in the Sports Arena/Point Loma area of San Diego that offers transitional housing for homeless youth, including parenting youth, throughout the County for up to 18 cumulative months. The program provides 33 semi-furnished 1, 2 & 3 bedroom apartments. Program goals and objectives focus on each youth's transition to self-sufficiency and successful investment in a sense of community.

  • Case Management and Goal Setting
  • Independent Living Skills Training
  • Parenting Classes
  • Counseling
  • Reduced Rent
  • Community Meetings
  • Youth Advisory Board
  • On-site Resident Manager
  • 24-hour Crisis Support

For more infomation, come visit our orientation the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every month at 3pm

  

Transitional Housing Program Plus
(THP-Plus)

THP-Plus provides affordable housing and comprehensive supportive services for up to 24 cumulative months to help former foster youth ages 18 to 24 make a successful transition from out of home care to independent living.  The program provides 25 furnished and unfurnished studio, 1 and 2 bedroom apartments through SDYS’ 35th Street and Fir Street Apartment complexes as well as additional leased apartments in the North Central, Central and East Regions of San Diego County. 

THP-Plus is grounded in four key principles:

  1. Emancipated youth are legal adults and should be subjected to fewer restriction than those who are younger;
  2. Program rules must be distinct from those that apply to youth currently in the foster care system;
  3. Programs must allow youth to have the greatest amount of freedom possible in order to prepare them for self-sufficiency;
  4. THP-Plus is not solely a housing program; it is a supportive program which provides youth with a wide range of services.
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The following services are provided:

  • Case management and goal setting
  • Independent Living Skills Training
  • Counseling
  • 24-hour Crisis Support
  • Individual Saving Accounts
  • $500 Move-in Stipends
  • $20/Month Credit toward Utilities
  • Food & Necessity Stipend
  • Youth Advisory Board
  • Community Meetings
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View THP-Plus referral form
For more information, come visit us our orientation every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 3pm

Voices From Our Youth

“(THP-Plus) has helped me and my children a lot.  It has helped me work towards being on my own and supporting my kids.  If it was not for this program, I would not know what to do.  I would be having a really hard time.  I fell that there should be more programs like this one to help more people” – 18yr old female and single mother of two children 

“There comes that day were we hold our head up high and make it known that we are not going to be known as that Foster kid. You have a name. You can live and lead a good life, you can shrink the bad statistics and put a better statistic in place, the statistic that more foster youth will be successful and independent.  That's where THP+ come in. You are not alone, you have THP+ that wants to help. Take this opportunity to become successful and independent, you have a whole team cheering for you and the whole world to take on.” -22yr old female

A special thank you to the following Transitional Living Communities supporters:

  • Big Animals for Little Kids
  • Burnham Real Estate
  • Carmel Del Mar School
  • Family Youth Services Bureau (FYSB)
  • Francis Parker High School
  • It’s All About the Kids
  • The Junior League of San Diego
  • Kaiser Psychiatry, Point Loma
  • La Jolla Rotary
  • National Charity League, San Dieguito
  • Pepperwood Park Craft Group
  • Rancho Santa Fe Women's Fund
  • San Diego Housing Commission
  • Target Foundation
  • Union Bank of California Foundation
  • United States Department of Health and Human Services
  • United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Walton Family Foundation
  • Weingart-Price Fund
  • Wells Fargo Housing Foundation



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