Marian House Community Outreach staff in Colorado Springs - photo by Taa Dixon
Since its inception in 2002, the Marian House Community Outreach Program:
- Reaches out to people in need, serving families and individuals who live in apartments, motels, local shelters, halfway houses, tent camps and on the streets.
- Cushion the impact of poverty on children, families and individuals by providing essential living items and the basic skills needed to keep themselves and their children healthy and safe.
- Encompasses all of El Paso County five-day-per-week.
- Provides referrals as well as case management
Their website says, “Working-poor and homeless families and individuals may have limited access to transportation, and/or may be poorly educated and fail to have a good understanding of the community resources that might be available to them. Catholic Charities picks up donations and delivers those donated items directly to people in need, shifting the onus from those in need to those who can help. Program staff does more than simply distribute emergency supplies, they link patrons to other community services, striving to bring each person or family to a higher level of self-sufficiency.
Throughout the Pikes Peak region, the Outreach truck brings goods such as groceries, baby supplies, clothing and household items such as furniture and appliances to people’s homes or where ever they are living.”
As a local Colorado Springs small business owner, I encourage you to consider donating old items or cash to this great program! I have thoroughly enjoyed volunteering and seeing the great benefit of the Marian House Community Outreach Program. They need our help…to make a donation, please call 719-229-9942.
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