TPCS Inc., is a community-based organization designed to address the needs of underserved people, especially women and children, in Essex and Union Counties of New Jersey. Our primary mission calls us to serve women and children who are experiencing homelessness. Our goal, is to develop and implement programs that facilitate a person's ability to become self-sufficient by helping to break the cycles of: violence, substance abuse, poverty, and incarceration, that have permeated their lives and have placed them at risk for prolonged periods of homelessness. Since its inception in January, 2002, TPCS has provided housing and supportive services to about 3,000 families. Current programs are staffed 24 hours a day in order to provide safe and secure housing, and supportive services that help