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Spotlight on ...
Ozanam Family
Shelter
Serving homeless families and single women in
Evansville and the surrounding area, Ozanam is located
at 1100 Read St. in Evansville.
The facility provides emergency
temporary shelter, case management and referral services to
residents. Laundry facilities, daily meals/snacks, TV
community room, and private sleeping rooms are provided at no
cost to the residents.
Educational life skills classes are provided on resume
writing, job search, housing, parenting, family life issues,
money management, goal setting, and more. Kids' craft
classes and teen talk time are also part of Ozanam Family
Shelter's services.
CURRENT NEEDS:
chest of drawers, baby cribs, and a laptop (with Win98 or
higher)--to assist residents in reaching their goals
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Ozanam is one of several homeless service providers
benefiting from the
Bullock's Rock Block Party
& Family Fun Fair
Sat. May 19
For more
information,
call 812.422.2214, or
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Southwest Indiana
This
year's 5K Walk will be held Sat., April 28 at Garvin Park in
Evansville. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with the
walk starting at 10:00 a.m.
Benefiting agencies include:
Donations may be made online at www.homelesswalks.org or mailed made payable
to "Homeward Bound - Southwest Indiana," PO Box 512,
Evansville, IN 47703-0512. One may make a general
donation or enclose a note designating an agency
above.
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Bullocks
Homeless Benefit
Event
(benefiting
United Caring Shelters,
Ozanam Family Shelter,
House of Bread & Peace,
& Aurora)
Family Fun
Fair
Sat., May 19
12:00 noon - 4:00
p.m.
in the parking lot of
Central United Methodist Church (across the
street from Bullock's)
Cost: $5 for children
$10 for adults
(Adults receive a wrist band
and
t-shirt to return
for the evening
event)
Activities:
carnival style games with
prizes, inflatables, Hadi Funsters with balloon animals & face
painting, goodie bags for children, door prizes,
hot dogs & hamburgers for sale,
& a silent auction.
12 - 2 pm
Storytelling
2 - 4 pm Kids
Karaoke
Rock Block
Party6:00 p.m. --
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Cost: $5.00 (without wristband or t-shirt
noted above)
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Welcome to the Destination: Home
Update!
With these Updates, we hope to encourage you with
news of local progress on the strategies of the ten-year
plan, educate you with information re: projects,
services, homeless issues, and inspire you with
news of other activities around the country!
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Champions for Ending
Homelessness
New
Commitments
to the Spirit & Philosophy
of Destination:
Home
We welcome recent endorsements from these
"Champions" for ending homelessness:
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Substance Abuse
Council-Vanderburgh County
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Matthew 25 AIDS Services,
Inc.
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Prevent Child
Abuse-Vanderburgh County
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North Park Baptist
Church
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We continue to actively solicit endorsements, both
from organizations and individuals. Click here
to print an endorsement form. Please send
in your endorsement if you support the spirit and
philosophy of Destination:Home.
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Bridges Out of Poverty training
underway
The Bridges Collaborative Group of Southern
Indiana began seeing the fruit of its labor in
planning and implementing the communitywide initiative "Bridges -- a community response to
poverty" as spring 2007 unfolds.
The first full-day "Bridges Out of Poverty -
Day 1" seminar with local community trainers was
held March 21, 2007, at Ivy Tech Community
College. In attendance were nearly 100
participants from a variety of aspects of the community
(social services, healthcare, judicial, law enforcement,
education, government, etc.).
On April 17th, the Girls Scouts of Raintree Council
and the Boys & Girls Club had close to 30 staff
members who gained a better understanding of the
experience of generational poverty as well as the
research continuum of causes and solutions.
Additional Day 1 seminars are anticipated as
the year unfolds. The Bridges Collaborative
Group now has five local community trainers to
lead seminars and overviews of the
curriculum. All have been certified by aha! Process, Inc. to conduct "Bridges
Out of Poverty" Day 1 and Day 2 ("Applying Bridges
Concepts")trainings locally as part of the
communitywide project and for their own organizations or
businesses.
Anyone in the community who has attended a "Bridges Out of Poverty" seminar in any
previous year or location is invited to register for and
attend the upcoming Day 2 "Applying Bridges
Concepts" full-day seminar featuring Phil DeVol,
co-author of Bridges Out of Poverty. The
event will be Wed., May 23, 8:30 - 4:00. Cost is
$20.00 (deadline May 16). For more details, visit www.destination-home.info/bridges.htm or
email info@destination-home.info to request
a flyer and registration
form.
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Commission on
Homelessness
The next meeting is set for 10:00 a.m. on Thursday,
May 10, 2007 at Mayor Weinzapfel's office. Troy
Tornatta, County Commissioner, serves as the
chair.
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PlaySpaces moving
forward
 Two additional sites are
nearly equipped with PlaySpaces. Lucas Place and Albion Fellows Bacon Center, with
support from 4C of Southern Indiana, are putting
the final touches on the equipment and materials for
play areas to benefit the children from birth to
age five they each serve on any given day.
Trinity United Methodist Church's  Fund B has provided support
for five local project representatives to attend the
annual Young Children Without Homes national
conference near Boston, MA. Horizons for Homeless Children, in
partnership with others, promotes this event. Our
local PlaySpaces project has been modeled in
many ways after the Playspaces in the Boston
area.
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Thank you for your ongoing interest in the progress
of implementing our community's 10-year plan to
end and prevent homelessness!
Send your friends and colleagues to Destination: Home's home on the internet to sign up
for e-newsletters, like this "Destination:Home
Update," Housing Matters! activities,
PlaySpaces progress, Volunteer
Opportunities, and others related to projects and
strategies of the ten-year plan.
Simply, type an e-mail address into the "Sign
up for our E-mail newsletters" button at the left of
each page and click "Go."
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