PHG cannot end homelessness simply by providing housing. Many homeless people need much more than a roof over their heads—they need medical care, mental health counseling, chemical dependency services, and life-skills coaching. They may also benefit from creating healthy connections within their community. Our goal is to assist formerly homeless and very poor tenants to establish a stable life in permanent housing by providing needed resources and teaching basic life skills, thereby empowering tenants to manage their lives effectively.

Coming Home Program
Housing Support Program
Begin at Home Program
The On-Call Program
Volunteer Program
Tenant Community Meetings
Computer Resource Centers


The Coming Home Program provides six months of intensive stabilization support services to formerly homeless individuals who are transitioning from a chaotic life on the streets into permanent housing. Through one-on-one support and mentoring provided by a team of four Housing Stabilization staff members, tenants acquire the life skills, resources and confidence they need to stabilize in housing.

To learn more about the Coming Home Program, please contact Michael Quinn, Program Manager.

The Housing Support Program offers support to all tenants who are not Coming Home participants. Our Housing Case Managers provide continued stabilization support services, community involvement activities, self-advocacy coaching and healthy mentoring. Supportive services help new tenants acquire household and personal items, and ensure that tenants have access to community resources such as chemical dependency treatment or mental health care.

To learn more about the ongoing support tenants receive at PHG, please contact Chris Hollinger, Director of Social Services.

The Begin at Home Program sets aside permanent housing units for medically compromised individuals who have struggled with long-term or repeated homelessness, and the resulting disabling conditions which leave them with no other housing options. These 20 private studio apartments, supported by Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 8 rent subsidies, will be occupied by very low-income tenants who frequently use Health Care for the Homeless Network programs and the Harborview Emergency Room.

To learn more about the Begin at Home Program, contact Chris Hollinger, Director of Social Services.

The On-Call Program provides opportunities for tenants to help out around their building community by filling in as desk and janitorial staff. This program provides tenants with an entry level employment opportunity to gain job skills and an employment history. Many of the On-Call Participants become full-time Building Specialists or Janitors with Plymouth. To learn more about the On Call Program, please contact Anita Franklin, Property Manager.

Our Volunteer Program offers individuals a variety of challenging, rewarding opportunities to serve the Plymouth Community. Tenant and community volunteers are crucial to the organization, and often team up on projects such as the Computer Labs, the United Way Day of Caring, and special events such as the Annual PHG Picnic and Holiday meals. Volunteers use their particular skills to help with social events, administrative tasks, or assisting in our Computer Lab.

Volunteers from the greater community are also crucial to the program. These volunteers help with hosting community involvement activities and events, and preparing and serving special meals during the holiday season.

PHG tenants deeply value caring interaction with their neighbors in the community, whether that be through a 'pen-pal' activity, through a mentoring relationship, or by having the necessities to live in their apartment. The skill-building, mentoring and social interaction that occurs through our volunteer program contributes a great deal to tenants' confidence and stability.

Additionally, the Volunteer Program imparts to our tenants the value of volunteer service and connects them with the greater community. Tenants often learn valuable social skills through interaction with our community volunteers and build social networks that help keep them stabilized in permanent housing.

To volunteer your time and talents, please contact Georgia Nicon in the Resource Development Office.

Tenant Community Meetings are held monthly in each of our buildings. During these meetings, tenants have an opportunity to discuss building issues and plan for community activities with their building staff. In some buildings there are also tenant-run Tenant Councils that carry out tenant business. In both cases Housing Case Managers encourage tenants to become involved in the community life of their building and provide support for achieving goals that the community might undertake.



Computer Resource Centers (CRCs) provide space, equipment and instruction to enhance tenants' technology skills. With the support of hardware contributions from the community, as well as a generous software donation from Microsoft Corporation, our first computer labs opened in 2002 in the Gatewood Apartments and Pacific Apartments. Currently Plymouth has CRCs in all of its 24 Hour buildings: Gatewood, Pacific, Plymouth Place, Plymouth on Stewart, and the St. Charles, and the Simons Senior Apartments. The Scargo and Cal Anderson buildings also have single computers available for tenant use.

CRCs are available for a variety of personal uses including internet, recreation as well as resume development, keyboarding, web searches and classes. Tenants new to computers get assistance in accessing these services from Housing Case Managers in each of the buildings and from tenants already familiar with the equipment. Online classes are also available in basic education and computer skills.