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Join us in supporting the Southern Oregon Top 10 Emerging Leader 2024 Class as we strive to expand the Hope House Transitional Living program. Our goal is to raise $100,000 to aid families in becoming self-sufficient, securing jobs, and finding permanent housing. The Salvation Army has already secured most of the funding for construction, but we need your help to complete the project.

Your support will enable us to serve homeless families in Jackson County by adding 7 additional studio housing units to the Hope House Transitional Living Program. This expansion will provide immediate shelter and food, along with crucial case management support, providing families with a hand-up to become self-sufficient and thrive. With your assistance, The Salvation Army can offer trauma-informed wrap-around case management, job creation/retention, and life skills training, leading to stable housing. 

Our community is facing a crisis, with homelessness increasing by 132% in the past 5 years. Rising utility rates and food costs have compounded the challenges for families and children. Jackson County now has the second-highest youth homelessness rate in the state per capita, and the cost of rentals exceeds the median family wage.

Every day, The Salvation Army encounters individuals like Frances, Rebecca, and baby Giacomo, who are desperate for help. Frances and Rebecca should have been celebrating the birth of their son Giacomo, but instead found themselves living on the streets of Medford in a makeshift tent.

Your support can make a difference in the lives of families like Francis, Rebecca, and baby Giacomo. Join us in  expanding Hope House and providing hope and stability to those most in need within our community. 

Through doubling family studio apartments, for decades to come, families will be able to obtain and sustain long-term safe permanency in housing. The following outcomes are expected based upon current program results:

• 88% will achieve stable housing

• 95% will achieve their educational and/or workforce goals through obtaining high school diploma, GED equivalent and/or employment

• 92% will report positive behavioral changes leading to better overall health outcomes

• 100% will stop using drugs and alcohol

• 89 % will reduce debt, establish a savings account, and increase their income

The Southern Oregon Top 10 Emerging Leaders 2024 class is raising $10,000 to help families through expanding The Salvation Army Shopping Style Food Pantry to help those in need and children who are hungry.

Children and Families in our community, who live in poverty, are facing compounding crisis due to recent 18% utility rate increase, over 30-50% increase in food cost and the average rental being well above the means for a median family wage in Josephine County. The Salvation Army daily is faced with stories of those who are homeless or on the brink of homelessness and are feeling utterly hopeless. Sadly, according to Oregon by the Numbers, 46% of Josephine County households are in financial hardship. One in five children in Josephine County live in poverty. 

Daily families are facing food insecurity and poverty. The Salvation Army desires to offer hope and help wherever there is need. Sadly, many families know the heartache faced daily with the decision to buy food, pay rent, or pay the utility bill.  

Your support will help families like Angie, Liam, and Bella through our social service emergency food program. Specifically, funds will enable us to provide emergency food assistance to 1000 children and their families, along with seniors offsetting food cost.

Angie is a single working mom with two amazing kids, Liam, and Bella. She is living paycheck to paycheck and barely able to pay rent and utilities. Often her heart breaks when she looks into the empty cupboards to try to find something to make for her children to eat. She hears the tummy’s rumble and pulls out what is left in a box of cereal but has no milk. She receives SNAP benefits but by the middle of the month nothing is left on the card due to rising food costs.are. SA often runs out of food while people are still in need. Oregon Food bank provides weekly food allocation, but the food allotment does not meet the demand for services. SA must purchase additional food weekly. The Salvation Army is expanding their Shopping Style food Pantry to help with the growing number of families in need. In order to expand the critical pantry services, The Salvation Army needs to add new freezers, refrigerator and shopping carts to help those in need. 

Daily families living in poverty are struggling and it is even more devastating during these times with the rising cost of food. Our community members are faced with the heartache decision to buy food, pay rent, or pay the utility bill. SA desires to offer hope and help wherever there is need.