Program areas at District Council of Springfield Ohio Society of St Vincent de Paul
Our Emergency Assistance program includes assistance for rents, utilities, State of Ohio IDs, birth certificates, and work shoes. We provide temporary hotel stays (up to 3 days per year) for homeless individuals. We take phone calls twice a week for rent, utility assistance, and household items. We are open 4 days per week as a walk in service for other services. During this fiscal year, we provided funding for 23 State IDs, 56 birth certificates, and approximately 59 hotel nights. We assisted approximately 23 individuals with rent and utility assistance and 27 individuals with household items and other assistance.
Our Christmas Basket program includes a complete Christmas dinner for all members of a household. We distributed 1000 baskets.
Our Food Pantry program is open twice per week. We provide food for 3 meals per day for 3 days for each person in the household. We allow a household to return every 28 days. We also provide cleaning, paper, and personal hygiene products. We also maintain a garden to supplement the fresh produce. We serviced 6,477 individuals.
Our Community Navigator program is open four days per week. We have bilingual navigators to assist the non-english speaking members of our community with referrals for immigration services - TPS, work permits, and asylum applications, as well as food & clothing, housing, and healthcare needs, school applications, and ESL classes. We assisted 560 individuals.