Our Programs

Financial Literacy

WIN prepares families to purchase their first home by offering homebuyer training classes and free individual housing counseling. Annually, WIN teaches over 300 families how to purchase their first home. One in four clients purchase a home within 3-9 months of completing their WIN homebuyer training class. WIN offers ongoing financial literacy programs, an overview of Ohio Benefit Bank Services, and we partner with local lenders to provide quality financial opportunities to residents. Our training also focuses on working directly with families to save homes from foreclosure, protecting a families’ investments and helping to maintain neighborhood stability.

Free One-on-One Housing Counseling and Coaching

Working In Neighborhood’s HUD-certified housing counselors provide free counseling on:

  • Rental
  • Pre-purchase
  • Post-ownership
  • Mortgage delinquency and foreclosure avoidance
  • Credit repair and debt management
  • Budgeting

To start the intake process, you will need to complete an intake packet and provide requested documentation. You can fill out the form below to have an intake packet sent to you, or download the Home Owner Intake Form or Non Home Owner Intake Form to print yourself. Completed forms can be emailed to WIN’s Intake Specialist Hope Sheffield-Mahalick at hopesm@wincincy.org or mailed to:

ATTN: Hope Sheffield-Mahalick
1814 Dreman Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45223

For more information about WIN’s financial and homeownership counseling, please call (513) 541-4109.

Request An Intake Form

For a complete list of upcoming financial literacy programs, both online and in person, click the button below.

A room full of people sitting at tables for one of WIN's financial literacy classes

WIN has been honored as Nonprofit of the Year for Personal Financial Counseling for the second consecutive year, reflecting the hard work and dedication of our HUD-certified housing counselors.

“They are dedicated, resourceful, collaborative and tireless. While remaining in the background, they edge others into the light—into discovering their own dignity and self worth.”

Sr. Mary Ellen Murphy

Sister of Charity