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divorce on children; and the importance of health and hygiene. The children attend special outings within the community via Samaritan Center and other community collaboration, such as attending local summer camps and taking swimming lessons at Gifford Youth Aquatic Center. Collaborations: The Samaritan Center collaborates with the following community partners on a regular basis to provide referrals and/or services to homeless families and their children, depending on each individual family's needs: The Homeless Children's Foundation; Mental Health Association; Mental Health Collaborative; Exchange Club of I.R.C.; Substance Awareness Council; the Boys and Girls Club; Counseling and Recovery Center; New Horizons of the Treasure Coast; Early Learning Coalition; Habitat for Humanity; United Against Poverty; Care Net Pregnancy Center; Gifford Youth Activities Center; Healthy Start Coalition/Healthy Families; Little Birthday Angels; Exchange Club CASTLE; Center for Emotional Behavioral Health; Suncoast Mental Health Association; Literary Services; and Treasure Coast Homeless Services Council Vocational Rehabilitation, S. A.R.T, Indian River County Victim Advocacy — Life Builders Program, and Department of Children and Families. Samaritan Center's successful partnerships with the Step -Up Program (United Against Poverty) and Habitat for Humanity yield results in obtaining employment and in the successful transition of our client families to home ownership. The community organizational lifts provide: shelter; counseling; parenting skills; budgeting; credit counseling; and employability skills. Due to these partnerships, we are happy to report a mother of 3 school -aged children, who has resided at the center for the past 24 months, has graduated our program at Level 4 and her family has successfully transitioned into an apartment. She has already completed 100+ of her sweat equity hours for the Habitat program and her new home expected completion date is June 2019. The family will receive Aftercare benefits which include mental health therapy, childcare referrals and assistance at holidays for up to 24 months. GOALS AND OUTCOMES Goal 1: Resident children who are age 4 and over will increase their self-esteem by showing an average of 5-10% increase on most recent self-esteem pre- and post-test given at the beginning and the end of the 8 -week sessions. Result: Post-test results indicate an average of 9% increase in resident children's self-esteem. Resident children scored an average of 88% on pre-tests and 96% on post-test indicating positive decision making based on increased self-esteem. Goal 2: Resident children age 4 and over will demonstrate a 5-10% increase on their social behaviors and character values measurements form that will be administered at the beginning and the end of each 8 -week session. Result: Post-test results indicate a 14.53% increase in resident children's social and character values. Additionally, behavior measurement observation results in 6 observations, children scored on average of 92.33% or higher in positive behavior choices. 16 49