The focus of Benedictine Place is to provide the necessary support for families to enable the mother to complete an educational or training program leading to economic self-sufficiency. Benedictine Place program participants regularly meet with the case manager to set goals and identify needed resources. The Cash Assistance Program is designed to assist families in northern Allegheny County by providing financial assistance to cover the cost of security deposits.
Assistance is available through an interest-free loan with flexible repayment terms.
In this way, a pool of funds continually remains available for others. Although many families and individuals are working to become economically self-sufficient, safe and affordable housing is still out of their reach. The problem can be directly attributed to the lack of safe, affordable rental housing plus the scarcity of new developments of below market rate rental housing in the Pittsburgh area and particularly northern Allegheny County.