We Are So Grateful For Your Support
As a nonprofit agency, we rely on our donors, funders, and volunteers to help us to be able to provide wrap-around services and basic necessities to those in housing crisis.
How do we do that, and why is your support of our agency so important? Your donation helps ImmaCare’s programs run smoothly, enables innovation, and provides fuel for growth. It unlocks potential and allows us the liberty to be creative in our case management services and groups we offer to clients in an effort to help individuals find housing and remain housed once they have a home to call their own. Case management is not cookie-cutter, by any means. Your donation makes it possible for our staff, whose top priority is to serve those in need, to help clients weather their personal crises without losing momentum. Your continued financial support of ImmaCare is perhaps the single most transformational gift to our organization and to those we serve.
Your donation supports programs that are underfunded, such as our Mobile Outreach Program. Long gone are the old days of simply handing out sandwiches. The real job of outreach must be integrated into the entire homeless service system to ensure that everyone has a safe and secure place to sleep and that we can take care of their basic needs. We see in some cities, especially on the West coast, what a spiraling, unsheltered housing crisis looks like with filthy, unsafe, inhumane camps, sometimes along major traffic corridors.
No one deserves that.
Mark* became homeless five years ago after losing his job as a result of continued substance abuse. When ImmaCare Mobile Outreach Case Manager Tony Mack first engaged with Mark in February, he was sleeping in a hallway curled up in the corner near a heater. With the help of your donations, Tony was able to provide food and clothing to Mark and advised him of homeless shelters and soup kitchens in the surrounding area. Tony added Mark to his caseload of clients who receive intensive case management services from him, and he continued to build a rapport with Mark and began meeting with him on a more regular basis.
Tony worked with Mark on identifying the paperwork he needed to secure housing in a housing program. Tony helped Mark execute a lot of paperwork and provided transportation to Mark to help him get prepared for housing.
Now, after a lot of dedication from Tony, after being homeless for five years, Mark is finally off the streets and in his very own apartment.
