Resident Connections: helping residents succeed
 Aeon strives to support successful residency and create thriving communities by focusing on resident connections, engagement and stability.
Connecting residents
Research has shown that when people are connected, they feel safer and more satisfied with their living environment. They are also more likely to treat their home and their neighbors with greater respect. Aeon's Resident Connections connects residents through community-building activities such as movie nights, cooking classes, gardening and barbecues.
Social networking is especially critical for newer immigrants, for whom language and cultural barriers can contribute to social isolation.
Engaging residents
Resident Connections encourages residents to take a leadership role in the property and the greater community. Residents have given back to their community by: serving on Aeon’s Board of Directors, facilitating monthly resident property meetings and planning community-building activities.
Supporting stability
Resident Connections staff identifies residents who are at risk of losing their home through Aeon’s Eviction Prevention Program. Staff helps residents increase their stability by connecting them to community resources such as mental health or chemical dependency treatment, job training, after-school programs and budgeting classes.
Partnerships to support success
In several properties, Aeon partners with a social service provider to offer added support:
- YouthLink provides the formerly homeless youth at Archdale and St. Barnabas Apartments with case management to help youth establish goals and learn independent living skills.
- RS Eden provides chemical dependency counseling at Alliance Apartments.
- Oak Grove offers support to formerly homeless residents at 1822 Park Apartments who have mental health challenges due to developmental delay or brain injury.
These support structures work to identify barriers that prevent individuals from maintaining successful residency.
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