Your Gifts at Work
We are now into our Thanksgiving Food Basket season. Food is being collected and both needing families and willing volunteers can sign up on our
More information about this event can be found at this link. Last year we distributed 520 food baskets for the holidays. We appreciate all the generosity our community shows, and are honored to help coordinate this project.
SVdP operates a transitional housing facility with 26 rooms which serves 13 families and 13 single / couple occupants, in addition to five low-income housing complexes with 101 units. Last year we also provided the following services to the homeless and those in need:
- Over 25,000 beds for homeless individuals at the Warming Shelter
- 240 clothing vouchers to the thrift store
- 345 children in 97 families as wells as 16 seniors and disabled adults received Christmas gifts through Adopt-A-Family
- 520 Thanksgiving Baskets were either delivered or distributed
- We distributed free bags of clothing to 15-20 needy visitors a day from our Dan Austin Center
- 1800 lbs. of food (not counting the holidays) were directly distributed
- Home Visit Teams provided 150 home visits and 80 referrals for services
Most important is the fact that your gift demonstrates that our community cares about all its citizens. Your help is most certainly appreciated by those who need it most.