Amandla Crossing
Transitional Housing Program

100 Mitch Snyder Drive
Edison, NJ 08837
Program Director: Ms. Danika Ali
Phone: 732.549.5559
Email: dali@miph.net

Amandla Crossing is a 29 unit transitional housing program for homeless single parent families on public assistance. Situated on 3.2 acres of federal surplus property, Amandla Crossing consists of six apartment buildings connected to a common reception area. There are studio, one and two-bedroom apartments, a laundry room, classrooms, state-licensed child development center, children's resource center, and after-school and summer enrichment program and staff offices.

The minimum age to be eligible for the program is 17. Each family lives up to twelve months in a fully furnished apartment with kitchen and bath. Near the completion of their stay, residents work with the staff to locate safe, decent, affordable housing.

Amandla Crossing provides a unique program addressing the social, emotional, and academic needs of the families through our in-house professional staff and specialists from community agencies.

Services and classes are offered to develop or improve functioning and self-sufficiency in the following:

Through these services, our residents learn practical skills to help provide a healthy and positive home environment for their children; improve their educational and social skills to move toward economic self-sufficiency; and to acquire appropriate skills to secure permanent housing by becoming responsible and stable members of the community.

Living in poverty, existing on the welfare system, and experiencing homelessness create a feeling of powerlessness in the families we serve. It is for this reason that "empowering" homeless families is essential to helping this population. Amandla, which in Zulu means power, was selected as the name of the facility to further avow this message.