Homestretch, Inc.
Julie Crain currently serves as Volunteer Coordinator at Homestretch, Inc. since September 2023. Since January 2019, Julie has held the position of President at the Grace Christian Academy Foundation, where responsibilities include supporting Grace Christian Academy through tuition assistance, operational support, capital improvements, and fundraising efforts. Prior experience includes Development Director at Grace Christian Academy from March 2016 to September 2023, and multiple roles at the National Geographic Society from 1987 to 2015, including Corporate Sustainability Steering Committee Member and Member Relations and Community Engagement Specialist. Julie holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from St. Mary's College of Maryland, earned between 1982 and 1986.
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Homestretch, Inc.
Founded in 1990, Homestretch is a nonprofit organization that serves homeless parents and children in Falls Church and Fairfax County, Virginia. Homestretch empowers homeless parents with children to move from crisis to financial independence and long-term stability. At Homestretch, we make a long-term investment in our clients, through a two-year comprehensive program. We move them into a neighborhood home, and then provide services based on their specific circumstances, needs, and goals. During their time with Homestretch, parents work, pay a percentage of their income for rent, and put money into savings. We help with transportation and child care costs, and educate parents on a wide-variety of life skills. Specialized services for the children include our preschool and our teen after-school program. The majority of our services are housed in one location. The Homestretch program works. Ninety percent of Homestretch clients graduate, with a job, an affordable home, their debts paid off, and savings in the bank. Two years after graduation, 95% of Homestretch clients are still working and living in their own homes.