The Pandemic and the near recession has wrecked havoc on many innocent lives. Not the least of which include children and youth. The number of youth who are experiencing food insecurity and homelessness has skyrocketed. To add insult to injury many kids who previously were in foster care or emergency shelters may also have not experienced  loving and stable homes and having reached the age of 18 are booted onto the streets to fend for themselves. Many of these children and youth have no life skills to prepare them to transition into productive members of the community and are prey to drug addiction, crime or worse.

WALK IN NEWNESS (WINN) is a nonprofit house of refuge whose mission is to help provide a safe and stable home  to help address the youth homelessness crisis.  Located in the Jackson, MS area and the first to offer this program for the Young Adults that are aging out of the Foster Care system, in transition, at risk of being homeless, coming out of emergency shelters or that are already experiencing homelessness. WINN was conceived to provide a healthy, nourishing, stable home-like environment where the transitional youth can learn the necessary life skills to enable them to easily transition into adulthood and become productive citizens. 

WINN will provide a home for the individuals that they can live in for 2 years and/or up to the age maturity of 23 years. The home will provide a safe environment with 24 hours 7 days a week supervision.

There will be a program parent overnight so they will never be without supervision. While in the program, each individual will be taught life skills that will help and assist them to transition into self-sufficiency and independence.  It is the goal that upon leaving the program each person will be equipped to live successfully on their own. They will have a job, degree or trade and will have been taught life skills such as budgeting, money management ,etc,