Foreclosure Prevention Assistance



Homebuyer Education



Housing for Homeless Families

            IMPACT!'s History and Mission

The story of The IMPACT! Group is one of growth and continued service to the community. Our organization was established in 1992 as an informal working group to create and preserve quality affordable housing within Gwinnett County. Incorporated in 1993, the agency received its first funding that year to provide emergency shelter. This program was expanded upon to become The IMPACT! Resource Center, (now the IMPACT! Transitional Housing Program) which helps working families achieve sustainable, quality housing and remain permanently out of homelessness.

 

The IMPACT! HomeOwnership Center was added in 1994 to meet the needs of first-time home buyers and residents in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure; and it shortly thereafter became a HUD-Certified Housing Counseling Agency. The center helps prevent foreclosures in Gwinnett County and greater Atlanta through group classes and free individual counseling sessions. The center also provides housing counseling, down payment assistance, and financial counseling services to first-time home buyers, current homeowners, and the general public in Gwinnett County and northeast Georgia.

 

We take our mission seriously - to transform lives and strengthen communities by providing quality housing solutions. The IMPACT! Group pursues that mission today by using our resources to holistically help families with different backgrounds and different housing needs. Our transitional housing services, homebuyer education, foreclosure prevention counseling, and financial education services create a continuum of care within the housing field that is unmatched in our community.

Since the founding of IMPACT!, the organization has steadily increased the number of clients we serve. In 2010, The IMPACT! Group's four housing counselors and two case managers provided direct services to over 5,000 households, thereby assisting over 12,000 people (including children).