Pie In The Sky

MCWA Liaisons:
Noreen Rains and Maureen Zygmont

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

Food 4 Kids

Mission Statement: Primarily, to provide weekend food items in backpacks  for selected students at South Woods Elementary School in Elkton, FL and their  siblings under the age of 18. Since it began in 2010 as an outreach of Memorial  Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, the program has expanded considerably. 

Services offered: Partnering with the school and community volunteers,  150 children received weekend meals for 36 weeks. Partnering with Dollar  General, Hastings, Food4 kids provided $1,000+ of fresh milk to SWES families.  During FSA testing week, F4K provided 1800 individual snacks to SWES  students. (In mid June, 29 volunteers, working 159 hours, secured 690 cases of  food to the SWES location, and packed 150 boxes and 150 bags of food, providing  300 children with weekend meals for 11 weeks during summer break.) Sept.2020  through May 2021, F4K provided over $3,400 of snacks to youth under 21 at Port  In the Storm homeless youth center. 

Volunteer needs: Volunteers are needed to pick up, transport, drop off,  and pack food in boxes and bags. 

LIAISON: ADRIENNE LYONS & NINA PITKIN

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, 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

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) 

Volunteer needs: At Port in the Storm--Providing dinner, assisting with food  drives and in the clothing closet, and with the raised vegetable garden soon to be  constructed in the back of the building on Arapaho. At St. Francis House--several  volunteer opportunities 

LIAISON: LISE MURPHY & GAYLE DODSON

Food 4 Kids

Food 4 Kids

Mission Statement: Primarily, to provide weekend food items in backpacks  for selected students at South Woods Elementary School in Elkton, FL and their  siblings under the age of 18. Since it began in 2010 as an outreach of Memorial  Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, the program has expanded considerably. 

Services offered: Partnering with the school and community volunteers,  150 children received weekend meals for 36 weeks. Partnering with Dollar  General, Hastings, Food4 kids provided $1,000+ of fresh milk to SWES families.  During FSA testing week, F4K provided 1800 individual snacks to SWES  students. (In mid June, 29 volunteers, working 159 hours, secured 690 cases of  food to the SWES location, and packed 150 boxes and 150 bags of food, providing  300 children with weekend meals for 11 weeks during summer break.) Sept.2020  through May 2021, F4K provided over $3,400 of snacks to youth under 21 at Port  In the Storm homeless youth center. 

Volunteer needs: Volunteers are needed to pick up, transport, drop off,  and pack food in boxes and bags. 

LIAISON: ADRIENNE LYONS & NINA PITKIN

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, 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.  READ FULL POST BY CLICKING HERE