Agency - HABcore, Inc.

HABcore, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation serving Monmouth and adjacent counties in New Jersey. HABcore is devoted to providing permanent and transitional supportive housing in a family setting to low-income persons who are homeless, disabled or unable to care for themselves while affording them lives of dignity and meaning.

Description:
HABcore has extensive experience in providing permanent and transitional supportive housing to low-income individuals and families. We provide the building blocks: a clean, safe home, a permanent address, three square meals and laundry facilities. From there, we go beyond the traditional boarding house model by providing a home-like atmosphere with 24-hour supervision
to cater to the needs of our population. The support services then extend to tailored development plans that allow residents to start a new life. We have a distinguished track record for expanding services to meet the rising need for housing while continuously improving support services to residents. Our success stories include people like Daphne who graduated college and moved to Orlando to work for Disney, and Carl who is starting a greeting card business. We also train graduates to work in residential settings. Darlene and Mary have progressed to supervisory positions in HABcore. With your help we can continue to build on these successes.

History:
In 1988, several Lunchbreak (a charitable organization dedicated to feeding the hungry in the greater Red Bank, NJ area) volunteers conducted a survey and found that a large percentage of the people they were feeding were living in substandard housing. These volunteers initiated a new organization whose purpose was to provide affordable housing in the same geographic area. Lunchbreak supported the new effort with a grant and loan, and in September 1988, HABcore, Inc. was incorporated. The "HAB" in HABcore was derived from the first initials of the last names of three homeless men who died in the streets of Red Bank during the 1980's.

Contact people:

Steve Heisman, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Ellen Davis, Fund Development Director, (phone), (email) Katie Maier, Assistant Director, (phone), (email)

Address:

P.O.Box 2361 Red Bank, NJ 07701