Seen making breakfast Tuesday for her daughters, Ah’mya Hancock, 1, and Alandria Hancock, 2, seated, Brittany Hancock moved into an apartment at the College Hill Courts last Friday through the Family Promise Rapid Rehousing program.TO PARTICIPATEAnyone who is homeless and interested in getting housing can call Family Promise’s Centralized Intake Program Case Manager Dot Saunders at 756-3891.
A 21-year-old homeless mother of two toddlers bounced from residence to residence for two years before she made a call to a Family Promise caseworker.
In less than two months, she found more permanent housing.
Brittany Hitchcock is among the first of 20 formerly homeless families who will be housed in the College Hill Courts public housing complex as the result of a partnership involving a half-dozen organizations.
This year, Family Promise, a local nonprofit focused on the homeless, created a rapid rehousing program that combined its services with those of five other local agencies — Room in the Inn, the Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition, Joe Johnson Mental Health, CBL and the Chattanooga Housing Authority.