NEWS UPDATES
Our numbers are continuing to increase do to the current financial state of our country. We are up, in qualified requests, this year by 57% over last year. When asked what our focus is for 2009; we will hold tight and do the best we can to provide for these increasing numbers without increasing our overhead. How can we do this with such large numbers? We need you, your Church, your business, your friends, your family, and your neighbors to come forward and help our staff and current volunteers. Please call us today to find out more about our increasing needs.
The Board of Director's and Staff would like to announce our plans for a Capital Campaign. There will be two major steps to this plan. We will be relocating our Roanoke staff and offices back to Keller Hicks in the Spring of 2009. This will make for temporary cramped working conditions and possibility temporary program cuts due to the lack of space. We feel there is no alternative due to the fact we can not keep asking our supporters to cover such a high cost for rent. It is our intention to secure our own facility within the next two years so that we are not continually faced with moving, due to the lack of rent money. We will be asking our supporters and donors to help us secure a permanent home for the children we serve. For more details contact Barbara Board, ccsedo@yahoo.com or Wayne Parkman, wayne_parkman@colonialbank.com.
- Awarded “Organization of the Year” by Speedway Children’s Charities in 2007.
- Provide essential assistance to over 200 families/700 children in need each month
- Provide Summer Lunch Program to an estimated 668 children for three months
- School Supplies and Shoe Vouchers given to 472 children in 2006
- 451 families/1,689 people were served in 2005 whereas 557 families/2084 people (children and adults) were served in 2006 for crisis assistance.
- Client services office opened in Roanoke, TX in addition to Keller facility which has a food pantry, donation center, resale store & administration offices.
- Collaborations with Lena Pope Home to provide mental health services and Denton County Friends of the Family for victims of abuse in providing specialized treatment.
- Multi-generational service projects, school team building activities, community based education training for special needs students, youth education leadership service with National Honor Societies, 4-H Clubs, Teen Court programs, Girl Scouts of America projects and Eagle Scouts projects are being successfully supervised with excellent results, promoting better human relationships and a sense of community.
- Elderly volunteers are mentoring and teaching the youth proper work ethics, skills training for jobs, and important values for development.
- Lending Library is being established at Roanoke to improve literacy and help in early childhood development/parenting skills.
- Special Programs for Children give stability to children by providing healthy food, clothing suited to the existing seasonal climate, school supplies as tools to success in learning, and toys/gifts/clothing provide a feeling of normalcy to disadvantaged children during the holidays.(2883 children served in 2006)
- Special family/child development training events (Snow Day & Family Picnic).
- Excellent volunteers mentoring youth volunteers: Rose Tolfa chosen Star-Volunteer/Star-Telegram, George Harlan named KRLD Community Hero, Olivia Pace named Outstanding Volunteer by Volunteer Center of North Texas, Nicole Castro received First Lady’s Rising Star Award of Texas and Kelley Pledger was selected as the Community Motivator for 2008 by the Texas Governor’s Blue Ribbon Panel.
- 80% of staffing is provided by dedicated volunteers