South Louisville Community Ministries

Emergency assistance program and neighbor network the emergency assistance program works to meet the basic individual needs of those families in the South end who are facing financial crisis. The program works to stabilize the family's by providing financial assistance with utility bills payments, as well as payment assistance for medical needs. For those neighbors in case management through our neighbor network, we are able to provide assistance for additional needs such as transportation and items needed for work placement. In addition, the program maintains an extensive dare to care pantry that distributes canned goods, frozen meat products, refrigerated dairy products, fresh produce, infant supplies and personal items. The covid pandemic created an increase in the number of families seeking assistance, as well as additional funding. Those funding sources are reaching the end.. The emergency assistance program receives inquiries for financial assistance from around 200 families each month, and this program assists in providing extensive financial assistance or referral services to those families. Additionally, South Louisville Community Ministries assists several families monthly by providing funds for necessary medications and medical expenses. Over the last year, the food pantry has been serving around 480 food orders monthly. Funding and in-kind donations for this emergency assistance program comes from supporting churches, metro Louisville government, dare to care food bank, special grants, local businesses and foundations, and individuals. 2022-2023 emergency assistance and neighbor network program: the emergency assistance program (ea) served (number of households and total amount of assistance): -neighbor network discretionary funds (housing/transportation/etc. )- 175: 42,707.81 -water - 22 1974 -lge -44 3415 -medication - 107--10,505.74 -special utility grants -847--219,081.75 -food (orders) - 5854 -clothing/furniture vouchers - 291 -baby supplies -458 -bus passes-202

2022-2023 rosewater bookstore: the rosewater bookstore is a volunteer-powered social enterprise that provides free Community space, workforce development opportunities, and emergency assistance to neighbors in crisis.

Program for homebound seniors meals on wheels provides meals and friendly visits to homebound seniors in South Louisville with a goal to increase nutritional health and provide personal interaction. This program relies on volunteers who deliver approximately 1970 lunches a month. Additionally, we deliver boxes of non-perishable usda commodities to approximately 21 seniors each month. Connected with our dare to care food pantry we provide delivery service of pantry groceries to our homebound families as well. 2022-2023 home delivered meals program (meals on wheels): throughout the year, slcm volunteers delivered frozen meals to our frail, home bound elderly in the South end of Louisville. During the year, 152 seniors were provided a total of 23,665 meals. For two routes, the food and funding is provided by mary and elizabeth hospital/university of Louisville health, while for the other eight routes the food is provided by mastersons' catering with coordination and funding provided by the Louisville metro senior nutrition program and kipda. We also provided 215 senior commodity boxes to our home-bound seniors in partnership with dare to care and usda.