REFORMED CHURCH OF HIGHLAND PARK AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION
Highland Park, New Jersey
Mission The Reformed Church of Highland Park Affordable Housing Corporation (RCHP-AHC) provides affordable housing, supportive services, and connection to meaningful community to low-income individuals and families in central New Jersey. Programs & People RCHP-AHC owns 20 properties in seven different municipalities in central NJ that house diverse low-income tenants, including veterans, women aging out of foster care, developmentally disabled adults, homeless youth, chronically homeless individuals, and others with significant life challenges. We also rent an additional 30 units and serve as a temporary intermediary for families – including refugees and asylum seekers – who would otherwise be unable to secure an apartment rental due to poor (or no) credit history, temporary unemployment, or other factors. In addition to special needs housing, RCHP-AHC oversees three programs that serve refugees and asylum seekers: Interfaith-RISE (Refugee and Immigrant Support & Empowerment) is a US State Department refugee resettlement program that works with the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants to receive and place refugees from around the world into caring communities in central NJ. Interfaith-RISE is supported by a coalition of over 50 partners from Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and other faith and community groups. Accompany Now! provides case management and home visits that support unaccompanied minors – children who have crossed the southern US border without a parent or who have been separated from a parent – who are placed with families in NJ. Still Waters provides supportive services and case management for people who have been subjected to human trafficking. Survivors of labor trafficking or sex trafficking need multiple forms of assistance including securing basic needs, as well as health, economic, and legal assistance.
History
In the summer of 2005, the Reformed Church of Highland Park began supporting a church family to become foster parents. Through learning about the foster care system and the hardships faced when youth “age out” of the system at 18 years of age without having secured a permanent home, Seth and Stephanie Kaper-Dale, co-pastors of the Reformed Church of Highland Park, and their congregation began to dream about what supporting these youth might look like.
In May 2006, ... Read More
