Goals

Goals

Identify local facilities where the homeless, destitute, and displaced persons live and congregate. They sit, eat a hot meal, and enjoy conversation with members of our team and their peers. We will continue to seek opportunities to minister as funds are available.

E.A.T. (Encourage-Abound-Teach) 

Almost everyone wants to do something to make a difference. The severe economic downturn has dramatically increased the number of Americans in need of emergency assistance. Many of the newly needy have been self-sufficient in the past but are now unemployed for the first time in their lives and must depend on food stamps or food pantries to make ends meet.

Eat 

Encourage patrons by providing sessions on life options, new perspectives, encouragement, giving insight and confidence to set, achieve and improve goals. Teaching basic life skills such as:

  1. Different problem solving approaches
  2. Self-awareness
  3. Self-management
  4. Decision making
  5. Interpersonal communication
  6. Empathy

Abound 

At TAMAR HFTS we exist to provide resources above and beyond your past that you may     continually increase.  

  1. Flourish, grow or develop in a healthy or vigorousway, especially as the result of an environment that is favorable for growth.
  2. Our desire is that you realize your potential for holistic well-being in all areas of your life: spiritually, physically, mentally, socially, emotionally, environmentally, academically, and vocationally.
  3. We desire that you thrive by growing, and progressing towards set goals despite or because of circumstances.

Teach 

TAMAR HFTS goal is to expand our services by recruiting and proving services to:

  1. Adult basic education (ABE) programs for patrons who may have not completed high school and may be deficient in literacy and math skills.
  2. General Equivalency Diploma (GED)/High School Equivalency Diploma (HiSET) programs and computer literacy and training.
  3. Recruit volunteer tutors for ABE, GED, HiSET and computer courses. It is not necessary for a tutor to have been a teacher, but some degree of tutor training is important.
  4. Help with resume preparation and job search assistance.