Stephanie Shipley is donating one third of the proceeds from the sale of her
CD, 'Musical Menu' to
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Homeless Families Worldwide and Native American Missions
 Interfaith Hospitality Network,is a 24-hour a day
program that provides temporary shelter and meals to homeless families with
children. Services include overnight housing and meals in the buildings of
Salem-Keizer area congregations and a day center where parents get help in
obtaining housing, employment, medical care, and entitlements.
A key feature
of the Network is its involvement of over 700 volunteers, who work alongside
the professional staff, in the mission of returning homeless families to a life
of stability and self-sufficiency. The ways in which the Network helps its
guest families are extensive because of the unlimited vision our volunteer
hosts seem to have for seeing possibilities to enhance the lives of our Network
guests.
In the first
six months of operation, we have assisted our guest families in ways as varied
as:
- Obtaining new and used clothing for all our
families
- Obtaining donated vehicles for some of our
families who had no transportation
- Obtaining a donated violin so a guest child could
participate in the orchestra
- Obtaining a houseful of donated furniture for
each guest family when they move into permanent housing
- Repairing vehicles owned by our guests
- Providing vehicles owned by our guests
- Arranging a wedding and reception for a couple
who got married while in the Network
- Obtaining professional family portraits for all
of our families
- Providing toys for the children to use and keep
after they leave the Network
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Interfaith Hospitality Network Statistics
Interfaith Hospitality
Network opened up it's family homeless outreach program on May 23, 1999. From the initiation of the
program in May through the first week of March 2000 a total of 106 people have been helped either
as official families or as other people including many YWCA residents and the Silverton Referral Center.
In the nearly ten months that INH has been actively helping families find housing 21 families,
for a total of 68 people, have been helped. A total of 38 other people have been helped with material donations
of clothing, household items, food and Christmas presents.
The following is the status of the 21 families which have been a part of the Network
from May 1999 through the first week of March 2000:
- number in permanent housing - 6
- number in transitional housing - 6
- number referred to other emergency shelters - 2
- number still in the Network - 2
- number whose housing status is unknown - 5
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