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It’s all about the children
Shared Housing Center
Holiday Hero 2014 At Shared Housing the magic of the holidays comes from our Holiday Heroes – YOU ‐ for taking the me to decorate, purchase and wrap presents, donate funds to secure gi s and holiday food. For thinking of the homeless children and collec ng toys so that they can have presents to open during those special holidays and make magical memories too! The holidays came early for Shared Housing. Thanks to Southwest Airlines’ (Managers in Training) MIT – Fall Class, the holiday spirit transformed our offices and shelter homes in mid‐November. In the office, we had trees in several heights adorned with decora ons, lights and nsel, table decora ons on every flat surface, and even green and nsel garland with big red bows hung on every marker board. The office even had outdoor gingerbread figurines that caught your a en on! The shelters were decked out too! The chil‐dren and their moms were thankful for the early welcome and so ready for the holidays!
Jordan was six when he lived in our group home. Diag-nosed with autism, his mom was overwhelmed with the procedures and prognosis and lost her employment in the process. But we were able to secure services and re-sources to provide Jordan stability and his mom peace of mind. Jordan is twelve now and lives with his mom in their own apartment, but joins us for every outing, event and gathering we offer. So when Jordan’s Holiday Hero asked if they could meet him - we said - Yes, and you will win his heart if you take him canned tuna: its his Krypton-ite! We heard that it was indeed an exciting and rewarding visit for everyone! Thank you BDO for your involvement and friendship!
Southwest Airlines MIT Fall Class raised funds to purchase 100 Thanksgiving bas-kets – turkey and all the trimmings – down to the baking pans! Our friends from Al-trusa International Downtown Dallas and a few SWA employees and SHC board members delivered to our families and a few senior citizens the weekend before the Thanksgiving holidays to assure that our families had everything to make their own meal! Thank you for donating your time, gas and friendship!
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Thanksgiving Care & Share Baskets
Holiday Heroes - generosity is the color of their cape!
Jordan meets his Holiday Heroes!
Altrusa member gets ready
to deliver! Altrusa members: set your
GPS & focus on the mission!
SWA employee & her
family!
Altrusa member & hubby!
Altrusa members bring their family members to
share in the spirit of giving and caring!
Payless Shoe Source and the Greater Horizons Team pro-vided our agency with 75 gift certificates for new shoes. Our staff organized for fifty (50) of our children to meet at the Payless Shoe Source at City Place one evening to choose and try on a pair of shoes they can enjoy over the holidays and into the new year. (the other 25 gift cards were distributed during the holiday party to other children in our programs). Yes the noise level was off the charts! Children were running around shouting out their shoe size and favorite colors. For some children it was the first time to have their feet measured! Two hours later (and staff more than ready go home) every child had a pair of shoes, proudly showing off their choices and selections.
Page 3 Payless Gives Shoes 4 Kids Program Pink boots a
nd m
y size
. I am h‐a‐p‐p‐y!
“This program
gave so much
happiness to my
child. The store
staff treated us
like VIP’s. We
have been
through a lot this
year, thank you
Payless, thank
you!”
Diane
Page 4 HOLIDAY HERO - Thank you!
Our Holiday Heroes represent a variety of professionals but in spite of their busy work schedule and life, we are always amazed
at the dedica on they give to the solicita on, collec on, purchase and wrapping of gi s and presents. Dallas is a great city
with a big heart ‐ thank you for sharing your kindness, generosity and compassion with our families, especially the children,
this holiday season!
24 HOUR FITNESS CLUB ‐ RICHARDSON ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY ‐Alpha Sigma Lambda Chapter ‐Coach Jones & family Jon & Carrie Barlow & family BDO ‐Mary Barton Marissa Berenson Ann Berryman Ellene Breinin BRIGHTER DALLAS ‐ Thomas E. Gleason, III CAPTAIN HOPE’S KIDS CENTRAL POINTE CHURCH OF CHRIST Diane & Chuck Cheatham Jack & Mary Grace Cicerello Lona Crabb CROCKETT, MCBRIDE & ASSOCIATES ‐Merrill Lynch Wealth Mgmt ‐Billy & Dodee Crocke Edwin & Judith Davis John & Ann Davis EASTERN STAR FC DALLAS ‐Melissa Reddick Suzanne Felber Tim & Frances Hafer Joe Ha ield Janis Hefley & Larry Fontana Gloria Jelks
Jermaine & Mary Jelks Colleen & Davin Mayerhoff & family Andy & Toni McGarrahan MEISEL ‐Viki Reynolds METROPCS ‐Chris Luna ‐Melanie Stebens MORE THAN CONQUERORS ‐Dave Woodard PAYLESS GIVES SHOES 4 KIDS RAINBOW DAYS, INC. ‐Kelly Wierzbinski SOUTHWEST AIRLINES ‐Dawn Siemiet ‐Cherokee Else ‐MIT Class of Fall, 2014 ‐Bunker HH ‐Tricia Angelo SPIRITIST SOCIETY THE SOUPMOBILE ‐Sister Lisa THE VERGE ‐Qynthia Sanders THOMPSON COE COUSINS & IRONS, LLP ‐Daniel Buechler Reid & Stacey Walker & family
Tex Hooper, FC Dallas & friends deliver presents!
Bell, Strawther & Davis families ‐ MetroPCS was their Hero!
Page 5 Holiday Hero 2014 Memories
BDO se
rved as H
ERO fo
r these fa
milie
s!
Gloria Jelks (center) with family and friends! Children doing arts & crafts at the party
SWA served as Holiday Hero for these families TEX Hooper, FC Dallas Players and SHC children hang out!
Shared Housing Center
Shared Housing Center, Inc. 402 N. Good Latimer Expwy Dallas, TX 75204
Phone: 214-821-8510 Fax: 214-828-1499 E-mail: [email protected]
Breaking the cycle of homelessness
We feel your pain Santa! Merrill Lynch served as a Hero for this family!
Fratern
ity brothers vo
lunteer to
tote b
ags
of g
ifts for o
ur fam
ilies!
“Gracias por su ayuda. Fue un ano
muy deficil para mi familia”. Marina Jessica & Elizabeth joined us!
Thank you fo
r the gifts. W
e lo
ve Shared Housin
g!
“Thank you for always be‐
ing there for us. You have
helped us with our troubles
and with our celebra ons.
This is what family is all
about! Merry Christmas &
Happy New Year! Love
Felicia & Charles
