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Greetings Sandra,
On this day set aside to celebrate love, we just wanted to wish each of you a very Happy Valentine's Day. We are grateful for the love and support you have given Family Promise Northern Shenandoah Valley since we started in August 2022.
We cannot offer help, compassion, and hope to families with children who are at risk of or currently experiencing homelessness without your prayers and gifts.
We have been very busy the past few months completing several new intakes, and working with partner churches and organizations to provide food boxes, meals, toiletry items, books, clothes, and activities for our families. We've celebrated the birth of new babies born to two of the very first families that moved into their new homes in September and November, and a new home for a single mom and her daughter in December. Within the past few weeks, three families with little ones have moved from unsafe, overcrowded, expensive motel rooms into safe and secure permanent housing because of the hard work of Family Promise NSV's Casemanager, Robin & Financial Counselor, Emma, and partnerships with Valley Assistance Network, Faithworks, our "Angel Donors", CCAP, Highland Food Pantry and other groups and individuals.
Today, special friends of Family Promise NSV blessed our moms with flowers and our kids with heart-shaped peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. Starbucks patrons and staff joined in the Valentine's Day spirit of giving by providing treat bags for the families. And on Friday, more celebrating of love will take place at Market Street United Methodist Church thanks to the pastors, youth and congregation of Grace & Mercy Ministries.
We are currently serving more than 20 families in local motels, offering prevention services to five families at risk of losing their homes, and continue to support the families who have secured permanent housing. The Family Promise program model includes community involvement in the holistic approach to helping move families from housing instability and homelessness to stability and self-sufficiency.
We can't do this without YOU!
The support of the Northern Shenandoah Valley community is an essential part of our mission of ending homelessness - one family at a time.
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