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.

Children and Families of South Woods Elementary School

MCWA Liaison: Lorraine Novinger

South Woods Elementary is a public school located in Elkton and serves children in need from the farming center of St. Johns County. Our partnership helps to enrich the educational opportunities of children from Pre-K though fifth grade by providing after school enrichment programs, early literacy education and tutorial intervention from the FLY program part of the investing in Kids Foundation, as well as fresh food for the children and families through the Children’s Home Society’s school-based food pantry.

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.