Homeless shelter begins ‘Adopt-a-Room’ project asking for volunteers to provide for residents
“Currently, the shelter is looking for churches, organizations or individuals to participate in their ‘Adopt-a-Room’ project. Those who choose to adopt a room will be asked to make sure the room is appropriately outfitted according to Emergency Christian Ministries guidelines by providing things like fresh bed linens, bath linens and keeping the room clean for new guests.
Jett said those who wish to adopt a room can be creative in how they choose to provide for the residents within their room and hopes this will also work as a networking system for those residents of the shelter, as well, as the focus of the shelter is to help give those who stay there the tools they need to land back on their feet.
‘We’ve taken as our motto that we’re giving a hand up, not a handout, so we want to bring the homeless back into society and back into a viable living situation and part of that is building relationships,’ she said. ‘You never know what’s going to come out of that if a group gets involved with adopting a room. If someone needs a job, they may say ‘well I know somebody that’s hiring for that type of job,’ so that’s kind of a networking system.'”