[Lekooks] Family Promise Update for Everyone, Trained and Untrained Volunteers

[Gina Magnus]

Hello All,

Family Promise of Waukesha County has been working throughout the pandemic
and continues to be responsive to the needs of this very vulnerable
population.  The focus shifted to preventing homelessness.  While
prevention continues to be a priority, we are back to serving in a limited
way by housing a family in an apartment that Family Promise rents.  We have
successfully housed one family and hope to build our way up to hosting up
to four families in four apartments over time.  The plan is to return to
the old rotating model when it is safe to do so.

Our host week is March 21-27.  Those who would like to help out by
providing whatever is asked of us that week need NOT be trained
volunteers.  We will not be in direct contact with our family (ies).  We
may be asked for food, prepared meals, gift cards, hygiene products,
etc.... We will not know what is needed until the week before we host.  I
will be in touch with you as we get closer to that date.

Other opportunities:
 1 - be a handy"person" on call during the day to help with minor
fixes/repairs in the apartment
 2 - be part of a limited cleaning crew to clean the apartment(s) between
families
 3 - volunteer to update the area church database (work from home).  Joe
(Exec Dir) can provide more details, but the organization is looking to
clean up the database and reach out to more churches to participate in FP.

If you are interested in any of these roles please call the Day Center at
262-968-2321 or email Joe at director at familypromisewaukesha.org

If you have any questions about helping out during our host week or how
this is all working, please call me.

Thanks to all!

gina
262-424-7640
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