Community Partners

Community Partnerships allow us to provide supportive services to our residents as well as further development of affordable housing.

Our residents may require assistance in areas other than housing. Community Partnerships allow us to address these needs and move our residents towards self-sufficiency.

Community Partners, We could not do this without YOU.

Connecting Humans to Humans! 

Today, we want to ensure people in communities are not just connected to services in the community, but that the right resources are delivered to help improve their lives and help them reach their goals. 

To become a Community Partner, contact us. 

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Our Partners

• Good Life Tour (GLT) provides vendors with an outreach opportunity by bringing services onsite to the residents in the community. The GLT eliminates the barrier of transportation and scheduling. We bring the services to the residents!
• Youth Violence Reduction Team Program (Juvenile Intervention)
  The Indianapolis Housing Agency (IHA), Department of Resident Relations (RR) has joined the Youth Violence Reduction Team (YVRT) as a referring agency and community partner. Public housing is a living environment which often is beset with youth violence and criminal activity. In fact, a juvenile arrest while living in a public housing community or section 8 housing can result in the eviction of the entire family unless the youth and family agree to family counseling.
• Nurse Family Partnership
  Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is an evidence-based, community health program that helps transform the lives of vulnerable mothers pregnant with their first child. Each mother served by NFP is partnered with a registered nurse early in her pregnancy and receives ongoing nurse home visits that continue through her child's second birthday. Results from more than 30 years of research show how this unique relationship is turning lives around.
• Center for Leadership Development (Based on Funding)
  IHA will sponsor youth to participate in Center for Leadership Development (CLD) programs. The mission of CLD is "to foster the advancement of minority youth in Central Indiana as future professional, business and community leaders by providing experiences that encourage personal development and educational attainment."
• Ivy Tech Community College Workforce Certification (Based on Funding)
  The mission of Workforce Certification within Ivy Tech Community College is to provide high quality, focused testing services that offer an opportunity for students and members of the local community to earn portable credentials in a wide variety of technical and professional skills areas. This is done to meet the needs of citizens, industry, business and government entities consistent with the College mission.
• Indianapolis Healthy Start of the Marion County Public Health Department (IHS)
  The Indianapolis Healthy Start of the Marion County Public Health Department provides case management, health education and outreach to eliminate the disparities in birth outcomes and infant survival rates within public housing. IHS also facilitates healthy relationship sessions with young men and women in IHA communities.
• Eskenazi Health Mobile Unit
  Eskenazi Health provides primary care services through its mobile unit to public housing residents residing in Laurelwood, Lugar Tower and Indiana Avenue.
• Mozel Sanders Thanksgiving Dinners
• United Christmas Service
• YMCA Toys for Tots