Volunteers of America receives $5,000 from Providence Health Care to sustain Hope House women’s shelter
For Release: Jan. 16, 2012
Contacts:
- Rusty Barnett (Hope House program director) at 509.455.2886
- Marilee Roloff (Volunteers of America president/CEO) at 509.624.2378
Spokane, Wash.—New financial support from
Providence Health Care will allow Volunteers of America to help some of the most vulnerable in our community—more than 1,800 homeless single women in Spokane, many with mental health or chemical dependency issues—with nowhere else to turn but the cold, dangerous streets.
Last year Spokane’s
Hope House provided shelter and refuge to more than 350 women aged 18 and older. These women are grandmothers, mothers, sisters and daughters.
Named for the refuge it provides,
Hope House offers refuge from the dangerous streets to any woman regardless of her mental health status, chemical dependency issues or lifestyle. Each woman receives safe shelter, a soft bed, a clean change of clothes and something warm to eat. But more importantly, each woman also has access to
Hope House’s supportive services like case management, access to mental-health or substance-abuse treatment, and housing—that help women rebuild their lives and leave homelessness behind forever.
The shelter is currently at capacity with 34 beds and 25 onsite apartments. Growing need is stretching resources to the breaking point.
Providence Health Care’s gift helps to sustain this essential program for vulnerable Spokane women.
“With the help of generous community partners like
Providence Health Care, we are able to open our hearts to women that everyone else has forgotten,” says
Marilee Roloff, president and CEO of Volunteers of America of Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho. “What better way is there to benefit the community than to remember the most vulnerable among us?”
Money received is part of
Providence Health Care’s Community Benefit program which seeks to improve the overall health and well-being of our local communities with particular concern for poor and vulnerable persons.