Path-Home (formerly Portland Homeless Family Solutions)
Cause Area
- Children & Youth
- Crisis Support
- Homeless & Housing
Location
6220 SE 92nd AvePortland, OR 97266 United StatesWebsite:
http://www.path-home.org
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Organization Information
Mission Statement
Path Home empowers homeless families with children to get back into housing and to stay there.
Description
Path Home is a non-profit that operates our 24-hour Family Village shelter for families with children. Path Home began at First United Methodist Church in 1994, as one of the few family shelters in the Portland metro area that allows homeless families to stay together while living in a temporary shelter.
Families staying at the shelter are provided a light breakfast, lunch, and an evening meal. They have access to a caseworker, internet, showers, laundry facilities, bedrooms, and constructive activities for kids. Thanks to many donations received throughout the year, we maintain a supply room of personal toiletry items for shelter families.
People from many faiths and traditions, community organizations, businesses and from the secular community, serve as volunteers. Path Home relies on the services of numerous volunteers each day all year round. Volunteers prepare and serve the evening meal, set out lunch, provide activities for children, facilitate homework help and preschool activities, and serve as overall helping hands.
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(December 1, 2011)
The staff is very welcoming, appreciative, professional, and well trained. Instructions are clear and it's nice to know that all staff and volunteers have gone through a security check. 98% of the time families are also very appreciative. Although it is obvious why some families might be homeless in the best of economies due to various issues, it is also true that most families are hard working people who really have run into some bad luck during these economic times. It is humbling. It is also a lot of fun to play with the kids who really are the champs in this situation. I had one new 11 year old's eyes light up when he saw how his family would get to sleep on a mat and have their own cubby. "Cool!!" What a great attitude---I went home smiling and I should note that I have never felt unsafe while volunteering at this shelter.