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The Quest Westside Impact Center

The Quest Westside Impact Center is part of our Quest West 2020 Project, a $30 million investment in the historic Boone-Lowery intersection.
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The Quest Westside Impact Center (QWIC) is a 30,000 s.f. facility that will serve as the central hub of Atlanta’s Westside. The QWIC will deliver housing, social services, and community development resources to the residents of Atlanta’s Westside. The center will offer the three main pillars of community development: Affordable Housing, Economic Inclusion, and Workforce Development.

Our goal is to integrate housing, job readiness/placement, economic inclusion, and other social services into a seamless delivery system. For instance, a resident who participates in a job training program at Westside Works will also receive financial management classes from On the Rise Financial Center and will be eligible for affordable housing through Quest.  ​
Westside Connect, housed at QWIC, ensures individuals and families are linked to vital community-based resources. The partner agencies include: Westside Works, On the Rise Financial Center, HEALing Communities, the Westside Community Health Worker Program, Quest, Chris 180, and Families First. 

Through Westside Connect, a coordinated approach connects residents to the resources they need. There is no wrong door for a Westside resident to walk into for access to these basic set of services. This collaboration ensures that regardless of the agency, residents can be screened and provided a facilitated referral to a Westside Connect agency.
Consistent with its deep commitment to community change, Quest has chosen to engage in deeper, long-term transformation by addressing the systemic economic inequality and racism that have plagued Atlanta’s Westside and beyond for many decades. Quest has partnered with Chrysalis Lab to combat racism and social inequity.
 
Chrysalis Lab, also housed at QWIC, is the premier equity strategy resource for leaders seeking to generate and advance sustainable, social solutions. Chrysalis Lab implements social labs as a framework and methodology to produce powerful results and outcomes. Social labs start by bringing together diverse groups of stakeholders, not to create five-year plans, but to develop solutions, test those solutions in the real world, and use data to further refine them.
To create real community impact, we must move from programmatic to transformational. The QWIC is not merely a service center and referral resource for Westside residents, but a community engine for transformational change. In the past, we were content with implementing programs. Today, we are tasked with creating systemic change by reducing or eliminating the effects of institutionalized racism and social inequity on Westside residents. This can be accomplished by giving residents greater control over the economic, social, and political systems that impact their lives.

Quest, as the pre-eminent CDC on the Westside, seeks to play a greater role in achieving these goals, and looks forward to working with its partners, residents, and funders to create a better life for those we serve.
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Quest Community Complex I & II

Quest Community Complex  I & II offers training and employment opportunities to Atlanta's Westside neighborhoods.
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Quest Community Complex I & II is the new home to Westside Works, a long-term neighborhood program with a mission focused on creating employment opportunities and job training for residents of the Westside communities, including Vine City, English Avenue, Castleberry Hill and other contiguous neighborhoods.