I returned from the Institute of Children, Poverty, and Homelessness (ICPH) conference, “Beyond Housing: A National Conversation on Child Homelessness and Poverty,” with feelings of both hope and despair. Despairing of the magnitude of the problem and the difficulty of reaching any consensus around solutions, I was also filled with hope knowing that we can [...]

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As we celebrate the close of 2011 and look toward our work in 2012, we are grateful for your generous contributions and tireless support. We want to say thank you to our thousands of volunteers  and hundreds of faith communities that provide services, meals, creativity, love and inspiration; the many corporations, foundations and businesses that [...]

Last September Safe Haven was a finalist for Center for Nonprofit’s 2011 Salute to Excellence Award in the category of Baptist Healing Trust’s Compassionate Care. What an honor! This was also daunting and challenged us to examine our policies practices with our families, our volunteers, our board of directors, but most of all with each [...]

Recently, 60 Minutes featured a segment on family homelessness, with an emphasis on families becoming homeless for the first time because of economic hardships. Click here to see the piece. Many families are no longer able to afford rent now. They live in cars and struggle to find security and normalcy. They struggle to keep [...]