As I write you, our winter re-mains unseasonably warm and dry. Our agency is taking advantage of the current weather to get an early start on the replacement of our new facility in Midvale.

We have our building permit in hand, and we are focusing on the important process of assisting as many families as possible to move out of the Midvale facility and into housing. For those families coming to us in need of shelter, we will begin the conversion of our space in our downtown Salt Lake City facility to ac-commodate their arrival.

Time is of the essence; we have invested a great deal of plan-ning within our team, as well as with our architects, Selvam Rajavelu and Chris Bachorowski, at NJRA Archi-tects who have been invaluable in their assistance. So too we are pro-foundly grateful to our general con-tractor, Hogan Construction and Dwight Packard in particular for all of the guidance and expertise that they have already invested. The quality of our partners and favorable weather has prompted us to take advantage of a proposed early start. We do not know how long the weather will work in our favor or what the upcoming autumn and winter might bring. The challenges that we face in starting early are an investment that could provide us great return. You will be able to track our progress on our

website at www.theroadhome.org. Please keep us in your well

wishes as we undertake this impor-tant effort. For any of you who have had the opportunity to witness the conditions under which our team has been operating, and our families have been enduring, you know that completion of this endeavor will not come one moment too soon.

Thank you again for your faithful support.

SPRING 2015

Newsletter

Matt M. MinkevitchExecutive Director - The Road Home

“YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TRACK OUR PROGRESS ON OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.THEROADHOME.ORG”

“...WE ARE FOCUSING ON THE IM-PORTANT PROCESS OF ASSISTING AS MANY FAMILIES AS POSSIBLE TO MOVE OUT OF THE MIDVALE FACIL-ITY AND INTO HOUSING. ”

Overcoming HomelessnessSupport and Shelter for

Dear Supporters of The Road Home

The Mayors from Salt Lake City and County are working in partnership to conduct two leadership planning groups. Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams’ group is focused on the provision of homeless services and Salt Lake City Mayor Becker’s group is focused on location of homeless services.

Mayor McAdams convened the Collective Impact on Homelessness Steering Committee on January 22 where he discussed “rebooting” the discussion to talk about services. Mayor Becker convened the Homeless Services Site Evaluation Commission on January 26. The Commission is chaired by Palmer DePaulis and Gail Miller.

Learn more at: http://www.slcgov.com/hand/homeless-services

INTRODUCING . . .

SOME BIGNUMBERS

Recently we met Anthony and his four children. When Anthony came to The Road Home we learned that he had just received custody of his four children. Although he tried extremely hard to provide for his family he couldn’t maintain a full-time job due to his depression and anxiety.

Through working with his case manager, Anthony was able to connect with local mental health service providers to help with his anxiety and depression. As his mental health improved, Anthony was able to obtain full-time employment and to secure housing. Together, he and his children are happy and safe in their new home.

SUCCESS STORY: ANTHONY

$10can give someone shelter for a night

$3087%

can give a family shelter for a night.

success rate in our family rapid rehousing program

Craig was born and raised in Provo, UT. He grad-uated from Timpview High School and went to Brigham Young University, where he studied social anthropology. Craig fell in love with com-munity service and volun-teer management and has worked with many non-prof-

it programs including the Special Olympic Utah Summer Games, Courage to Hope, and studying sustainability and most re-cently the United Way of Salt Lake.

Craig’s favorite part of being a volunteer coordinator is seeing volunteers overcome that initial hesitancy of working with new populations, and then finding the common ground that creates a strong community.

Chelsey is from Green Bay, Wis-conson and a huge Green Bay Packers fan! She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls with a Bachelors of Social Work. Chelsey realized her passion

for community service in high school dur-ing mission trips to Jamaica, Miami, New Orleans, Africa, and Haiti. She was also very involved in the local Green Bay Family Shelter.

Chelsey also discovered early on that she had a passion for working with children. She worked for the YMCA as a child care provider in their School Age Child Care programs, as well as a Camp Counselor at a YMCA Summer Camp.

Chelsey loves working with volunteers and loves seeing the moments that volun-teers realize that all of the good they are doing is truly helping others and changing lives.

“IF EVERYONE WOULD BE WILLING TO STEP OUT OF THEIR COMFORT ZONE AND DO A LITTLE, COLLEC-TIVELY, WE COULD MAKE A HUGE IM-PACT IN THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO

NEED THE MOST HELP.”

“I AM CONTINUALLY SURPRISED BY HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS ARE WILL-ING TO GIVE THEIR TIME TO HELP

OTHERS.”

The Road Home is excited to welcome our new Volunteer Coordinators Chelsey Rasmussen and Craig Foster!

Chelsey and Craig have already added great skills, ideas, and energy to our Road Home Team! If you would like to volunteer at The Road Home or have questions about volun-

teering please feel free to contact them via email at: crasmussen@theroadhome.org for Chelsey, or cfoster@theroadhome.org for Craig.

AN EXCITING HOUSING PROGRAM

EVENTS SPECIAL THANKS

We are still in need of table captains for this year’s One by One breakfast.

For more information about being a table captain for this event please call or email:

Alicia Gleed at agleed@theroadhome.org. or 801-819-7296

We would like to invite any and all volunteers who would like to participate in this epic day of service! Last year we had over 700 volunteers, who completed 20 projects to benefit the people we serve!

For more information please con-tact Chelsey Rasmussen at crasmussen@theroadhome.org or visit our website at www.theroadhome.org/.events/

COMCAST CARES DAYAPRIL 25//PALMER COURT

8AM - 12PM

ONE BY ONEMAY 7 // LITTLE AMERICA

8AM - 9AM

Thank you to all of you who donated in honor or

memory of your loved ones!

To see the complete list please visit:

www.theroadhome.org/give/do-nate/in-honor-and-memory/

ervation services. A team of six staff members

that represent each of the agencies have an office at The Road Home. This makes collaboration between a broad group of partners easier. Every fam-ily assigned to the program will be fol-lowed for the full three years to show progression, needs, and services each partner agency can provide.

We have assessed 27 families for the program and have officially en-rolled our first nine families into the program. The team meets regularly to identify necessary improvements or course corrections. This is new for all of us, and we expect to learn lessons as we continue to innovate.

The Road Home is happy to be the lead on an innovative new housing program for families. This program is a multi-agency collaboration with partners including The Road Home, Salt Lake Community Action Program, Odyssey House, YWCA Utah, Division of Child and Family Services, United Way of Salt Lake, Utah State Univer-sity Extension and the Department of Workforce Services. Over the next three years, we will serve 100 families as they move out of homelessness and into housing. The program is unique and designed to follow a family for as long as needed in order to ensure con-nections to community based resourc-es. We believe this will help to not only

end a family’s homelessness, but also alleviate symptoms of poverty.

Families that present certain barriers to housing stability when en-tering shelter will be assigned to this knowledgeable team. The team will provide wrap around services from expert agencies that can address the barrier. Barriers include inability to become housing eligible, behavioral health issues, financial literacy, early childhood education, domestic vio-lence intervention, life skills courses, employment support, and family pres-

THIS PROGRAM’S GOAL IS NOT ONLY TO HELP END HOMELESSNESS, BUT

TO ALSO END POVERTY.

We are so incredibly grateful to all of the volunteers who made the holidays special for all of the people we serve! Each volunteer worked hard to make sure everyone had a great holiday season.

Thank you to everyone who donated hygiene bags. We had over 1,000 hygiene bags donated from wonderful members of the commu-nity! Hygiene bags were given to each of the single men and women in the

shelter. We are also sincerely grate-

ful to all of the groups who held fun activities for our families such as the Larry H. Miller Group who took our families to see the movie “Elf” and collected over 10,000 pairs of socks; Woods Cross High School who hosted our families and single women for a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner; and Pepa Taufu for taking our families to Loveland Living Planet Aquarium and

to dinner. Each group that came to The Road Home to serve our families and single residents truly made an im-pact on the clients we serve.

Finally, a very big thank you to the almost 800 volunteers who worked throughout the very success-ful Holiday Broadcast!

WE TRULY APPRECIATE ALL OF THE SUPPORT AND DEDICATION

FROM EVERY SINGLE VOLUNTEER!

A HOLIDAY THANK YOU

HOME IS HOPE.

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THE ROAD HOME’S MOST URGENT NEEDS ARE:

- blankets- socks- coats- underwear- towels- diapers & wipes

All donations can be delivered to The Road Home from 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM, 7 days a week.

To view full donation needs, visit us online: www.theroadhome.org/needslist