Christian College Football Team Joins YWCA, U-Haul, Radio Station to Help Homeless
The Malone College football team will once again work with the YWCA Emergency Shelter program, U-Haul, and local Christian radio station 95.9-FM ''The Light.''
The Malone College football team will once again work with the YWCA Emergency Shelter program, U-Haul, and local Christian radio station 95.9-FM “The Light” (WNPQ) in an effort to help greater Canton, Ohio-area individuals transition out of emergency housing.
U-Haul is donating the moving vans while the Malone Pioneer football team will volunteer their time to carry, load, and unload larger items on Apr. 1.
Local radio station WNPQ, 95.9-FM “The Light,” is offering free advertising time and appealing to listeners and encouraging donations. There is an ongoing need for furniture including dressers, beds, headboards, chairs, couches, dinettes and tables, as well as house items. Items will be taken to the YWCA’s warehouse and later distributed to persons as the transition from the emergency shelters to more permanent housing.
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The YWCA emergency shelter provides homeless persons and families a place to stay for a 60-90 day period. During this time, social workers work with individuals and families to assess problem areas and needs, and then develop case plans to address these needs, reported Malone College.
The YWCA has housed women since 1909. In 1986, grant funds were secured to house single women and women with children (boys aged 6 and under) who were in homeless situations. The Ralston-Farrell Family Shelter, opened in 1989, houses families with older males (children or adult). The YWCA has seen a need for housing assistance grow from serving 189 individuals in 1986 to 471 individuals last year, nearly 35 percent of whom were children.
The New Beginnings program, transitional housing, provides housing for eligible families for a 2-3 year period with long-term support services to assist motivated families move out of poverty. Gateway Estates, the YWCA’s newest housing project, offers permanent housing for the chronically hard-to-house in 36 low income SROs (single room occupancies).
