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7 people are interested
Receiving Center Volunteers
ORGANIZATION: PREBLE STREET
Please visit the new page to apply.
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7 people are interested
We provide emergency clothing and toiletries to youth and adults in need. Volunteers help accept and sort donations, fold clothes, restock shelves, and keep the Receiving Center clean and organized.
The Receiving Center needs volunteers Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9am-12pm, and Tuesday and Thursday 12:30-3:30pm.
Click on the link below (or copy and paste it into your search bar) to fill out an online application to volunteer!
preblestreet.volunteerhub.com
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About PREBLE STREET
Location:
38 PREBELE STREET 3RD FLOOR, PORTLAND, ME 04101, US
Mission Statement
The mission of Preble Street is to provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty, and to advocate for solutions to these problems.
Description
In 1975 Preble Street was founded as a neighborhood center to involve and empower homeless and low-income residents. As homelessness became an urban issue, Preble Street was the first agency in Maine to recognize that homeless people needed a place to stay during the day and has operated a day shelter since 1981, providing free meals and access to clothing, phones, bathrooms, mail, and linkage to community resources for housing, healthcare, mental health treatment, employment, etc.
As ideas for a more unified community resource center emerged, Preble Street launched a unique collaborative partnership of private and public agencies working together to meet the immediate and long-term needs of the homeless and low-income residents of Greater Portland, consolidating three soup kitchens, a food pantry, the City of Portland Homeless Healthcare Clinic, a day shelter, social services, a housing location program, and a homelessness prevention program.
This model was replicated in 1996 at the Teen Center and expanded to include overnight shelters for homeless youth and women in 2004 and 2007, respectively. The first permanent low-barrier supportive housing for chronically homeless adults in Maine, Logan Place, was opened in 2005, as well as casework support for previously homeless families in community-based housing.
Today, Preble Street has become the hub of programs for the most vulnerable and underserved residents of Portland.
CAUSE AREAS
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WHERE
18 Portland StreetPortlandPortland, ME 04101
DATE POSTED
August 24, 2018
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 3 hours
- Ages 15 and older