Pie In The Sky

MCWA Liaison:
Noreen Rains

Fighting Senior Hunger

Pie in the Sky Community Alliance, Inc. 

Pie in the Sky’s mission is to provide healthy nutrition and social connectedness for low-income senior citizens in St. John’s County. The program helps seniors who lack the ability whether it be for finical reasons or health issues, to eat better so that they can age in place and stay healthy in their homes. Eggs, fresh fruit and vegetables, homemade soups, as well as pantry items are delivered twice a month to eligible seniors.

Alpha-Omega Miracle Home

MCWA LIAISONS:
Lisa Haluch and Joan Kaiser

Alpha Omega Miracle Home, Inc.

Provides housing, counseling, and education for the new faces of homelessness in St. Johns County- single mothers, their children, and senior women. The G.R.O.W. program places young moms and senior women together in furnishes apartments to share the responsibilities of raising and loving a child. Young mothers are expected during a two-year program to gain education, employment, life skills, and financial independence in order to become self sufficient and become a contributing member of our community.

Food 4 Kids

As one of our former charitable partners, Food 4 Kids received support through our outreach initiatives — a collaboration we look back on with gratitude.

Food 4 Kids

Mission Statement: To identify chronically hungry children throughout the community and provide them with food and vital resources on a regular basis.

Food 4 Kids and MCWA

Vic Yerrill ~ Outgoing Director of Food 4 Kids, Debbie Coates ~ President MCWA, Adrienne Lyons ~ MCWA Liaison to Food 4 Kids, Barbara Alford ~ Incoming Director of Food 4 Kids and MCWA member

Monday, June 1st, 2020 volunteers packed 678 cases of food for the Food 4 Kids summer food distribution. We filled 2 flatbeds (to the tune of $11,000). As we weren’t able to use the school for packing, Mary Clare generously offered the Marsh Creek club parking lot. 

The MCWA donation was certainly appreciated and well used to help fund the summer food program. 

Port In The Storm

As one of our former charitable partners, Port in the Storm received support through our outreach initiatives — a collaboration we look back on with gratitude.

Port in the Storm

Mission Statement: To engage vulnerable homeless families and single adults  in opportunity driven programs, in an effort to eliminate their state of  homelessness and to place homeless youth in nurturing programs that develop  their self esteem, so they become self-sufficient, find stable housing, and change  the trajectory of their lives.    

Services offered: Services include shelter for 16 men, 14 women and 4 families  (with shelter for 9 more families underway); basic needs services; Street  Outreach Services; assigned case manager for all residential clients to create a  plan to help them escape homelessness; implementing a successful housing focused model resulting in 188 adults and 21 youths recently transitioning to  stable housing; Advocacy and Referral Day Program for non-residential clients;  Port in the Storm youth advocacy and education at the Arapaho facility,  renovated with 16 shelter beds; Port in the Storm programs for success, including  Homeward Bound and Ready for Work 

Education services: Education to reverse homelessness is ongoing on every  level, impacting adults, families, and youth. (See Services offered)