Meet Ebony Martin, Housing Forward's first Family Support Specialist
The agency is excited to announce the promotion of Ebony Martin from Street Outreach Specialist to Family Support Specialist. Ebony worked in her previous role for three years, making numerous key connections in the community, and becoming a recognized expert is working with families.
Key volunteer positions still need to be filled in shelter this year!
Volunteers are an essential part of the PADS Emergency shelter program which operates from September to May providing a place to sleep and three meals, 7 nights a week at 11 rotating sites in host congregregations in Berwyn, Forest Park and Oak Park for between 20 and 60 people in the midst of a housing crisis.
URGENT NEED for volunteers at new family-designated shelter site in Forest Park!.
Forest Park Baptist Church is coming on board as a Monday night secondary shelter site in January.
My Experience as an AmeriCorps Service Member
As my service year as an AmeriCorps member has come to an end, I reflect on my experience at Beyond Hunger – one of Housing Forward’s partner agencies.
Celebrate Community at the 2020 HAVE-A-HEART GALA!
Our biggest fundraising event of the year is less than 2 months away. Join us Saturday, February 29, 2020 at the Aon Grand Ballroom on Navy Pie with our special guest host Jim O'Heir.
Generous Grant received from Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation
Tony Martinez, President and CEO of the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation, delivered a check recently in the amount of $10,000.
A Happy Birthday at Sojourner House
Holly, the program manager at Sojourner House, learned recently that one of the children living there was about to celebrate her birthday.