Empowering Homeless Families
Dancers, Safe Haven staff and board and other supporters gathered Thursday, March 29 at the home of Gari and Wade Cowan to kick off the Dancing with Safe Haven event. In addition to honoring the dancers and patrons, the patrons’ party also honored the 2012 Hero Award recipient, Dave Roberson. He spoke briefly at the [...]
When most families enter Safe Haven, I don’t think they even dream that they can leave a homeowner. But, that is exactly what Lawanda and her family are about to accomplish. Lawanda entered our Shelter Program in November 2009. She had three young boys and was pregnant with a little girl. She had been evicted [...]
Ben Vos is a licensed counselor in private practice in Brentwood, TN. He is working with Safe Haven to develop the new Journey Together family mentoring program, matching mentors with families as they make the transition from homelessness to lasting self-sufficiency. Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Marcia Owen, who is co-author [...]
Sharing Our Families’ Stories: Good News in the Past Two Weeks! We are excited to begin this regular blog to share our families’ stories with you. I am Jennifer Reason, the Program Director here at Safe Haven Family Shelter. I will be blogging regularly here to share our clients’ stories, successes, struggles and a glimpse into [...]
Having just got off the plane from a trip to Los Angeles for the annual National Alliance to End Family Homelessness Conference, I am filled with key buzzwords of the “new normal” and “best and promising practices”: data, outcomes, prevention, intensive case management and wrap-around services, critical time intervention, trauma-informed care, coordinated entry and rapid [...]
Staff of Safe Haven Family Shelter and Nashville OIC will be attending a celebration at Lipscomb University Tuesday (2/7) to honor the achievement of being among only seven capstone projects proposed to “graduate” to Collaboration College 301. Over 150 individuals from 100 different organizations attended a conference last September at Lipscomb University on the importance [...]
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 [...]
“Now is the time to make an adequate income a reality for all of God’s children, now is the time for city hall to take a position for that which is just and honest.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today our nation and community celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Many of us have the day off to enjoy as a holiday; some of us are using this day as a day of service and volunteerism (“a day on; not a day off”). Most of us remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s contribution to our nation from his “I Have a Dream” speech – one of the most important speeches in American history – a fiery and spiritual appeal to end racism and injustice. However, some of us do not remember that when he was killed, he was supporting a strike of municipal sanitation workers, standing up for the principle that every working American should be able to earn enough to live a decent life.
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 [...]
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