Two months ago, Terrell Taylor, left, was struggling to make ends meet for himself and the five children he and his girlfriend are raising.

He was jobless, and his girlfriend, Destiny Gaines, was having her hours cut at work, leaving little money for the family.

“I was having a hard time,” Mr. Taylor, 28, said. “I was tired of working temporary jobs and getting laid off.”

But he and his girlfriend found help in a new resource center known as Our House, located next door to the Mosby Court public housing community.

With help from the center, they found jobs at a new Richmond-based computer recycling company called E-Waste Tech Systems and have moved out of the Fairfield Court public housing community into a three-bedroom apartment in Church Hill.

Mr. Taylor already has earned a promotion at the company that operates near The Diamond.

He, his girlfriend and his brother, Gregory Harrison, are among the beneficiaries of the Kinfolks Community Empowerment and Sustainability Program at Our House.

“We were willing to learn and strive,” Mr. Taylor said. “We just needed a little push. The sky’s the limit now.”

Our House opened July 5 in a 2,500-square-foot building at Redd and Bryan streets.

“We are transforming Mosby Court,” said Arthur Burton, the executive director of Kinfolks. “We are building community wealth. We define wealth as health, quality of life and financial well-being.”

He said the group’s chief aim is to provide jobs and other resources to residents of Mosby and other public housing communities and to empower them to move into permanent housing.

To that end, the center offers job training, assistance in finding jobs, housing opportunities and youth programs.

The idea for the center originated from a discussion in 2011 among city residents determined to use their talents and skills to assist historically disadvantaged neighborhoods in the city.

Mr. Burton said Our House was kick-started by $70,000 in initial funding from City Council that was championed by council Vice President Ellen F. Robertson, whose 6th District encompasses the Mosby community.

He said the center also is gaining other financial support from several private entities.

Kinfolks shares the Our House center with Massenburg Construction Co., owned by Andre Massenburg. His company built the resource center.

Mr. Burton and Mr. Massenburg are collaborating on the development new housing as part of the effort to create jobs and improve the community.

The first effort is the proposed $1 million renovation of a dilapidated 36-unit apartment building across the street from Our House.

The apartments have been vacant for more than a decade. Mr. Burton said the project would provide construction jobs and refurbish a longstanding community eyesore.

Jobs, jobs, jobs is the main focus, though, said Mr. Burton.

More than 30 adults have been placed in jobs so far through Our House services, Mr. Burton said. He said about 150 other people are “in the pipeline” to gain employment.

He said the center also is working with the city’s new Workforce Resource Center in Downtown to ensure people have maximum help in job searches.

Our House also offers on-site workforce training and education through J&G consultants, led by Grace Washington Young.

“In order to create wealth, the first step we have to do is create income opportunities,” she said.

Ms. Young said her staff helps people find work, including those with limited job experience and others with felony records. Others, who lack high school diplomas, are getting assistance to start the process of earning GEDs.

“We work with people where they are,” she said.

Mr. Burton said he also teamed up with the National Park Service and Groundworks RVA to create an urban conservation corps for city youths. He said he has 25 students from nearby Armstrong High School and Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School who are taking part.

The students are in the midst of planting 15 fall gardens in the Mosby community. Mr. Burton said the youths are raising onions, broccoli, kale, cauliflower and beets with the aim of providing healthier food for the community.

They also are cleaning up blighted Mosby properties.