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FACETS provides comprehensive programs and services that address the needs of individuals and families who are homeless, precariously housed, or living in low-income government subsidized housing communities in Fairfax County. FACETS’ mission is to build strong families and safe communities by improving the quality of life for impoverished men, women, and children through programs addressing physical, spiritual, and emotional needs.
The FACETS office serves as a walk-in center for individuals and the Client Resource Center provides immediate assistance for people in need of help. Through a scheduled rotation, social workers respond to individuals who walk into the office. Clients are provided with transportation, food, water, hygiene items, sleeping bags, tents, and other items as needed. In addition, phones, computers, and the internet are available for use and allow clients to identify resources and schedule appointments.
FACETS helps families and singles by:
- Feeding, clothing and sheltering the homeless
- Arranging free, emergency medical and dental treatment for the indigent
- Providing life-sustaining prescriptions for uninsured adults and children
- Mentoring and tutoring children, teaching them social skills, improving their behavior, raising their self esteem, awakening their desire to learn
- Sponsoring or aiding attendance at trade schools and community colleges
- Teaching housekeeping, parenting, ESL, computer skills, budgeting and job interview skills to help adults be more competitive in the workplace to become strong providers
- Offering after-school educational and recreational programs for children in grades K through 12
- Assisting residents of rent-assisted neighborhoods in the formation of civic associations for the betterment of their communities
- Sending children to summer camp, taking them on educational and cultural field trips
- Providing diapers, formula, backpacks full of school supplies, children’s books, personal hygiene supplies, holiday food baskets and toys
- Helping adults develop and carry out life transformation plans to put them on the road to independence
- Lifting families from homelessness to housing
