Residents are mostly single mothers who receive welfare assistance. A variety of partnerships with community organizations have been created to provide services to all generations of the complex's resident families, including day care, after-school programs, drug and alcohol counseling, and support for women leaving prison. Support Services Provision Program Program Offers Housing Assistance and Community Support for Families St. Louis . The Support Services Provision Program of Beyond Housing of St. Louis provides a combination of permanent housing for needy families and comprehensive, individualized assistance to enable those families to reach their goals of self-sufficiency. Families are selected by income eligibility and willingness to achieve self-sufficiency.
Case workers focus on identifying and meeting the needs of each individual in the family.
The organization operates 215 homes in the St. Louis area and serves 875 needy people, including 570 children. Services provided include training for homeownership, parenting skills, employment counseling, childcare assistance, transportation and vocational assistance, money management training, tuition for post-secondary education, books, GED educational support, job readiness activities, training and education. Youth services include classes in life skills and leadership development, computer access and training, tutoring and exposure to post-high school possibilities. The Missouri Commission on Human Rights is partnering with Columbia Interlight Ministry, a local housing counseling agency, to promote fair housing in four counties in Missouri. The commission provides fair housing training to the ministry's staff who then collect allegations of fair housing violations in the counties served and deliver them to the commission for further investigation.