Last year at The Sharing Community

Last year, more than 500 different single homeless individuals found shelter or housing with supportive services; including nutritious meals, medical care, mental health and/or substance abuse counseling, as well as case management services.

More than 130,000 nutritious meals—over 11,000 each month-- were prepared and served to soup kitchen guests, shelter guests, and residents of our various housing facilities.  Due to the economic recession, our Soup Kitchen numbers in 2009 and 2010 are significantly higher than in prior years. More than 900 vouchers for nutritious food were given to 117 different households in our Medical Case Management and Nutritional Education Program. 

More than seven hundred different unsheltered homeless individuals were engaged by our HOST workers on the streets of southwest Yonkers or at our Hudson Street site. Our workers provided shelter referrals, domestic violence interventions, detox and medical referrals, food pantry and food stamp assistance, and entitlements advocacy.

Our street and community outreach programs made more than 7,000 contacts to at-risk individuals in our community, distributing HIV prevention packets, referrals to hospitals, shelters or detox programs, or HIV testing.

It has been more than 10,000 days (and counting) since The Sharing Community first opened our doors to help those in need in 1983.  Every one of those days built on the combined efforts of staff, volunteers, supporters, and the community as a whole.