Passport To Self Suffiency
COTS Passport to Self Sufficiency™ (PTS) was created to assist families in reaching their housing, economic, health, eduacation, and career goals as they overcome homelessness and break the cycle of poverty for themselves, their next generation, and beyond.
The theory of change that undergirds all of COTS services is COTS Passport to Self-SufficiencyTM
PTS is a research based transformative strategy of coaching and mentoring designed to create poverty resistant families by focusing on housing & family stability, economic mobility & empowerment, health & well-being, education and job training, and employment & career development.
The Passport To A Brighter Future For COTS Kids
COTS Passport to Self-Sufficiency™ (PTS) is a trauma-informed, research based, transformative whole family approach designed to create poverty-resistant families and is the overarching framework for all of COTS work. All programs and services, including shelter operations; child care; independent, affordable, and permanent supportive housing; case management; and mobility coaching are provided within the
framework of PTS.
PTS focuses on building the executive functioning skills of COTS families – skills such as impulse control, mental flexibility and memory, which are essential for families to be able to navigate today’s complex and demanding challenges to permanently end poverty and homelessness.
PTS Partners
Central City Integrated Health
Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD)
Community Economic Development Association of Michigan (CEDAM)
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Detroit Housing Trust Fund Coalition
Detroit Reads! (Detroit Public Library)
Michigan Rehabilitation Services
MSU Extension Healthy Food Healthy Families
Southeast Michigan Alliance for Economic Inclusion (FDIC)
St. Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center (Reading Works)
University of Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research
Wayne Metro Community Action Agency – LEAPS Program
Wayne State University, College of Liberal Arts and Science
Wayne State University, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences