Shelter Care Ministries hosts volunteer training orientation Oct. 4
Posted By Brandon Reid On September 29, 2011 @ 10:15 am In Happening Now, Local News | No Comments
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Shelter Care Ministries will host a volunteer training and orientation from 6:30-9:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 4, at its office in Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 412 N. Church St., Rockford.
Purpose is to welcome, recruit and train current and new volunteers into Shelter Care Ministries programs where they can make a difference in the lives of men, women, children, and our nation’s vets living in homelessness and suffering from mental illness.
Adults, youth and children who wish to volunteer are welcome to come and be inspired by this training opportunity. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Volunteers are the heart of Shelter Care Ministries, and with new things happening each day, the need for volunteers expands. Each unique program has specific volunteer needs.
Currently, some of the needs are: Jubilee Center: people to offer hospitality, groups to serve food at breakfast or lunch, people to host game days; MAYA’s House: adults to nurture babies, read to children, and prepare meals; people to help sanitize toys; Transitional Housing: an individual with a truck to help pick up furniture donations, a person with the ability to do light maintenance tasks at SCM’s housing sites.
Shelter Care Ministries was established in 1984 by Emmanuel Episcopal Church as a response to the needs of a growing homeless population. In 1985, emergency and transitional housing programs were started to help keep families with minor children together. Shelter Care Ministries also has become the managing partner of MAYA’s House (founded by the Junior League of Rockford in 2003). MAYA’s House is a drop-in day care center for homeless children.
To schedule a tour of Shelter Care Ministries or to learn more about ways to help families in need, including the Adopt-A-Family program, contact Bea Neace, coordinator of Community Resources, at (815) 964-5520 or bneace@shelter-care.org [1].
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