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This will be Tucson’s first green, energy-efficient, tiny home community.

This is Tucson’s first of its kind at 1101 S. Van Buren Ave.

Tiny Home Community

I Am You 360 has developed a green, energy-efficient 10-tiny home model. Each home will be 450 square feet, with one bedroom, living room, kitchen, and patio. Residents will pay $1.00 a square foot. Half of their rent will be saved in an escrow account and given to them at the end of our 2-3 year program to be able to purchase their first home, ending homeless, breaking generational cycles, and creating generational change. This provides direct and long-term impact.

Our tiny home model will include water harvesting, a community garden, trees, a flower garden, and a community barbeque area.

I Am You 360 is dedicated to improving outcomes for aged-out foster care or experiencing homelessness (18-22) by providing safe, permanent housing with direct and long-term impact, and by sewing our most underserved youth population back into the fabric of our community.

Small Home Experience Application

Name

First

Last

Race/Ethnicity

Age

Address

Phone

Why are you interested in the Small Home Experience Program?

What are your expectations of the Program?

Why should we choose you and what skills do you possess?

What are your strengths?

What are your challenges/barriers?

Goal 1:

Goal 2:

Goal 3:

Goal 4:

Do you have a license?

Yes

Goal 1:

If not, are you interested in obtaining one?

To gain employment, a state identification card, social security card and/or birth certificate are required. Select all the documents you currently have:

State ID

Social Security Card

Birth Certificate

Goal 2:

Do you currently have a checking/savings account?

Have you ever created a personal budget?

How important is personal hygiene to you?

Do you have the ability to do your own laundry?

Are you currently enrolled in school or a GED program?

Give a brief description of the phrase “clean space”:

Can you cook?

If so, describe

If so, what are some of your favorite meals to make?

Are you easily motivated?

How do you handle stress?

Do you plan on attending college or a vocational school?

Do you work better as a team or individual?

If so, describe

If you find yourself in an unsafe situation, what do you do?

Do you currently have medical, dental, vision insurance?

Have you ever filled out a FAFSA, scholarship, or school loan application?

Do you currently use birth control or contraceptives?

Are you familiar with sex education and safe sex practices?

If so, which ones

Do you have access to a computer or laptop?

Do you have computer skills?

Which type of career are you interested in pursuing and what current skills do you possess that you believe will help you in that career?

If so, briefly describe your level of experience.

Do you have an email account?

Do you have a resume?

Do you currently have a cell phone?

If not, are you interested in building to skills to create one?

Are you currently employed?

Do you currently have a natural support system (mother, father, siblings, extended family, friends, etc.)?

If so, describe the communities you belong to.

If so, where?

Describe the difference between building rapport and relationships?

What are your hobbies?

Are you affiliated with any groups or organizations?

Describe your affiliation or participation.

Skill 1:

Have you ever obtained assistance from a private or state organization?

If so, describe.

Skill 2:

How familiar are you with community resources? Please name a few, what services they provide and the benefits.

Do you have access to community resources if needed?

Skill 3:

Have you ever utilized a community food bank?

Do you prefer to live alone or with a roommate?

Please explain why?

How well do you get along with others?

What form of transportation do your currently utilize?

Do you know the steps necessary to become a homeowner?

Do you know how a home is financed through a mortgage?

Can you explain the home buying process in simple terms?

Do you know how property taxes work?

Do you know what a home warranty program is?

Do you know how to do landscaping?

Do you know how to repair and maintain appliances (e.g. refrigerator, washer/dryer, stove/oven, dishwasher, etc.)?

Do you know how to inspect a home for major damage (e.g. roof, ceiling, termites, water damage, HVAC system, etc.)?

Would you be comfortable cleaning a house on your own?

Are you familiar with preventative fire safety measures?

Are you confident in your ability to respond to a house fire?

Would you know what to do if the electricity in your home goes out due to a power outage or other reason?

Are you confident in your domestic skills (dish washing, clothes washing, floors/rugs, bathrooms/kitchens, trash, etc.)?

Do you know how to create and maintain a budget?

Have you ever managed more than $1,000, personally?

Have you ever managed more than $5,000, personally?

Have you ever been flat broke?

Are you familiar with ways to save money to earn interest?

Are you familiar with how financial investments operate?

Can you explain the difference between real estate investment and stock market investment?

Do you know what a will is?

Do you know what a trust is?

Do you understand how income tax withholding operates?

Do you have medical insurance or coverage?

If it is paid for from your job, can you explain how your employer’s contribution works?

Do you have a retirement plan?

Have you ever been on a vacation?

Do you do activities regularly to “charge your battery” (e.g. pray, mediate, walk, run, ride a bike, enjoy nature, etc.)

Do you understand the importance of regular exercise?

Do you understand the importance of healthy eating?

Do you know what a “vision board” is?

If so, have you ever created a “vision board?”

Do you have goals?

If so, do your friends have similar goals?

What has been your greatest failure in life, so far?

What has been your greatest success in life, so far?

If you are human, leave this field blank.

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Economic financial literacy while completing a 2-3 year program with home ownership.

CRITERIA INCLUDES:

Gainful Employment
Education
Community Service
Self-Development

We Assist through Teaching

Life Skills and Self Development

Banking
Credit
Budgeting
Cooking
Cleaning
Laundry
Self-Defense
Safe Sex
Nutrition
Self-Esteem
Positive Thinking

Honors & Rewards

HONORS & AWARDS

Mercy Care 2023 Rise Award Advocacy
2022 NAACP Tucson Economic Sustainability Game Changer Award
2022 Greater Women Greater World Centennial Award by. Lambda Alpha Sigma Tucson
2022 Grant Awardee Helene Henrikson Fund
2022 ARPA (AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT) AWARDEE
2022 100 Plus Women
2022 100 Plus Teens
2022 Fast Pitch
2021 Recognized by The Tucson (AZ) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated
2021 Community Foundation for Southern Arizona African American Legacy Fund
2020 Awarded funding from the Arizona COVID-19 Community Response Fund, a component fund of the Arizona Community
Foundation.
2019 $10,000 grant received from the African American Legacy Fund.
2019 Better Business Bureau Torch Award (Nonprofit Category Ethics, Honesty, and Integrity)
2019 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., Community Service Award
2016 Eta Epsilon Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Sorority Incorporated Community Service Award for Leadership and Dedication of
Service to the Tucson Community
2016 Vantage West Credit Union Non-Profit of the Year

I AM YOU 360

Our Board Members are a powerful team committed to the community of Tucson. Meet the wonderful women behind the scenes of I AM YOU 360.

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