When YB first moved to the United States six years ago with no job, no home, and no help, he faced a seemingly impossible task: to achieve self-sufficiency while raising his high school daughter on his own. After six months at a local shelter, he enrolled in our Transitional Housing Program. Just two months after… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Success Stories
Naydelin – A Youth Programs Success Story
Naydelin, a first grader at George Mason Elementary School, enrolled in Community Lodgings’ after-school programming in the start of the 2016-2017 academic year. At registration, we learned she had been in public school system for less than a year after moving from Honduras, and was an English Language Learner with a Special Education Plan to… Continue Reading
Ama – A Transitional Housing Success Story
Ama and her husband came to America in hopes of a better life and greater opportunities. But for Ama, it was a frightening time in which she found herself totally dependent on her husband. Ama spoke very little English, had no friends or family in her new country and often found herself on the bad… Continue Reading
From Ziplining to Graduation: A Mentor’s Perspective on the Girls’ Mentoring Program
By Stephanie Hemmert, Girls’ Mentor A little over five years ago, I walked into an Alexandria City Volunteer Information Session knowing I wanted to help in some way and do something, but I wasn’t sure what. I had participated in some literacy tutoring a few years before that, and was looking to get back to… Continue Reading
Kids Explain “What Community Lodgings Means” to Them
“Community Lodgings is loving, safe, and super awesome.” “This is truly something special because it’s only certain people dedicated to giving, and that’s Community Lodgings!” “I am thankful for the chance I was given to be a voice for my community and to tell others about Community Lodgings, its programs, and how it’s been a… Continue Reading
A Letter from Denise
Dear Community Lodgings, I’ll never forget walking out of my apartment with my boys for the last time and the bittersweet feeling of how much things had changed in the past two years. Before coming to Community Lodgings, my life was filled with fear. A safe home, free from violence, and providing basic things for… Continue Reading
Sou-Sou: A Success Story
Sou-Sou is an attentive young mother with one eye and one ear perpetually trained on Colin, her two and a half year old son. Her path to her sleek, modern apartment was not a smooth one. She was isolated and alone, a victim of domestic violence. But her arrival at Community Lodgings’ apartment number four,… Continue Reading
Administrative Office
3912 Elbert Ave. Suite 108
Alexandria, VA 22305
703-549-4407
The New Brookside Learning Center
601 Four Mile Road
Alexandria, VA 22305
703-566-9464
Fifer Family Learning Center
607 Notabene Drive
Alexandria, VA 22305
703-739-5856
What is the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)?
This notice describes how information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully, click here.
(Viewing this document requires a PDF file viewer such as Adobe Reader®.)