Programs
Shelter
Single residents live 3-4 to a bedroom. Families are housed in their own rooms.
Residents share kitchens, baths, living rooms, laundry and lounge areas. Residents
are responsible for their own cooking. Trust House residents may visit our food
pantry if they need assistance with groceries. Residents complete daily chores to
maintain the house in addition to caring for their own living space. Residents have
access to computers with internet connection. Residents are offered weekly Life
Skills training, the option to attend a sober living group and multiple other activities
that are captured on a monthly calendar of events.
Therapeutic Case Management
Trust House offers therapeutic case management to every resident.
The Case Manager, a Qualified Mental Health Professional, meets at least once a
week with each resident to assist in the development of an individualized Life
Management Plan in order to develop goals to work toward while living at Trust House
and to prepare for success beyond their stay at Trust House. The
Case Manager works with residents to obtain housing; manage healthcare and medications;
and help them meet personal goals.
Skills Development for Self-Sufficiency
Trust House offers programming that aims to make residents more successful at maintaining
self-sufficiency upon their move into permanent housing. A Life Skills group is
offered each Tuesday evening. Life Skills programming addresses: health; income
development and maintenance; job skills; education; housing; financial literacy;
community resources; self-help skills; independent living skills; and therapeutic
resources.
Credit Remediation, Budgeting and Savings
Residents at Trust House are assisted in obtaining a credit report and developing
a strategy to improve credit scores. Two household budgets are developed: the first
anticipates expenses while at Trust House and the second anticipates expenses after
a resident has obtained permanent housing. Residents are asked to save 60% of take
home pay after their first thirty days. Households are encouraged to develop a savings
goal that considers: rent; security deposit; utility deposits; pantry expense; moving
costs; and rainy day savings.
Housing Stability Program
Graduates of the Trust House Shelter Program can choose to participate in our new
Housing Stability Program. The Trust House Housing Stability Coordinator assists
clients during their last 30 days in shelter to locate and transition to permanent
housing. This program offers care coordination through monthly phone calls and home
visits to clients; referrals to existing resources to prevent/address crises; coordination
of a monthly peer support group; and connection to the Community Housing Resource
Center for subsidies to maintain housing if necessary. The program can continue
for up to 12 months after transitioning from Trust House.
Peer Supportive Recovery Housing
Trust House has recently partnered with Rebuilding Together Roanoke to provide permanent housing for recent graduates.
This provides a stable, supportive home where the former residents can live and support each other in their new lives.
Music Therapy
Trust House serves as an advanced clinical placement site for Radford University’s Graduate Level Music Therapy Program. Weekly sessions are provided for clients of Trust House. Radford University students are placed in this setting to develop skills on their way to becoming board certified music therapists (MT-BC). Music Therapy is a unique and effective means for residents to interact and express while building new relationships with each other and with the music therapist. Through listening to, composing, improvising or re-creating music together, the music therapist can assist clients to identify, establish and pursue personal goals of a cognitive, emotional, physical, social or spiritual nature.
The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) defines music therapy in the following way:
Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.
Music therapy interventions can be designed to:
Promote Wellness
Manage Stress
Alleviate Pain
Express Feelings
Enhance Memory
Improve Communication
Promote Physical Rehabilitation
For more information on the profession of music therapy, see the following link: www.musictherapy.org
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Homeward Bound
Recent Recording by Music Therapy Program
"Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick...it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer."
--Neil Kinnock, Welsh Labor politician, from his maiden speech in 1970
Do You Need Help?
If you are experiencing homelessness or expect to become homeless soon, please call
Trust House at (540)344-8060. Trust House is staffed 24 hours a day every day.
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