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Resources connected to our mission of serving fathers, families, veterans, seniors, youth and neighbors facing hardship or crisis. Details for each resource are added as they are confirmed.
Every father deserves a room where he can be honest. Provides support group meetings, discussions and resources that empower, encourage and support dads — fathers learning from fathers, showing up for their children, and finding strength they did not know they still had. Your gift builds the circle that keeps a dad present, steady and engaged in his family's life.
Ask about DADS-R-USSome comfort arrives on four paws. Oreo is a service animal and emotional support animal, commissioned through Our Journey of Hope Cancer Care Ministry (OJOH). He travels to embrace individuals with special needs, including autism, lupus, A.D.D. and A.D.H.D., as well as high-functioning adults with learning challenges. His visits also bring companionship to people receiving hospice care; individuals with disabilities, Alzheimer's disease or dementia; veterans; and those living with PTSD, anxiety, depression or grief. He visits schools and nursing facilities, supports companion care providers, and offers comfort to anyone he chooses to serve. Where words fall short, Oreo simply stays — and families remember that visit long after he leaves. Your gift keeps Oreo on the road, bringing calm to the rooms that need it most.
Ask about Oreo's PawsA pathway for children affected by prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol, and for children who have experienced the death of their mother in their earliest years. Joshua's Journey walks with these children and their caregiving families through the long road that follows — assisting with the physical, mental and emotional challenges associated with these experiences through developmental resources, therapeutic and medical referrals, grief support, school and behavioral support, mentoring, and steady encouragement for the guardians raising them. The focus of this pathway is to make sure no child carries the weight of how their journey began without a community walking beside them.
Ask about Joshua's JourneyWalking with families through diagnosis, treatment and everything after. Provides a variety of resources tailored to meet the needs of survivors, their families and companion care providers — practical help with daily needs, encouragement during treatment, connection to services, and steady companionship for the people carrying the load. Your gift makes sure no one faces cancer without support in their corner.
Ask about Cancer CareHonoring a legacy of housing justice by helping families move from uncertainty to stability. Fostering affordable housing resources, sustainability, financial literacy, financial planning, seminars and empowerment — so families not only find a place to live, but build the knowledge and confidence to keep it and grow from it. Your gift helps turn a roof over someone's head into a foundation for generations.
Ask about Hattie B. Dorsey Housing Initiative LegacyPurpose-centered support for children, youth and families living with A.D.D., A.D.H.D., lupus, and other mental or physical conditions that affect day-to-day activities. We create safe, fun and informative spaces to connect, with resources, mentoring, coaching and ongoing support that meet real needs — including peer grief support guided by a credentialed adult. Your gift helps a young person be understood, celebrated and equipped to walk in their purpose.
Ask about Nia is PurposeServing those who served us — because camaraderie is medicine. Love 4 Vet-roes fosters resources tailored to our VET-ROES' needs, including housing, transportation, mental health assistance and ongoing support, delivered with dignity, respect and follow-through. The pathway also fosters adaptive and recreational athletics, peer connection and wellness through sports leagues, tournaments, fitness training and team events, including community tournaments and family game days. Together, these experiences rebuild strength, purpose, and the bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood after service. Your gift helps a veteran come home to stability and lasting care, return to a team, get back in motion, and reconnect with people who understand — support that lasts well beyond a thank-you.
Ask about Love 4 Vet-roesConfidence is a doorway. Groomed 4 Excellence fosters grooming experiences that enhance mental and emotional well-being and physical appearance, alongside barbering coaching and mentoring. We prepare individuals to walk into interviews, classrooms, courtrooms and new beginnings feeling seen and ready. Your gift helps someone look in the mirror and recognize their own excellence.
Ask about Groomed 4 ExcellenceA place for parents to be poured back into. Fostering adult mentoring, coaching, support and resources for parents who placed their families' needs before their own — practical guidance for the everyday pressures of raising a family, encouragement from people who listen without judgment, and connection to the help they need to keep going. Your gift gives a parent a coach in their corner, a plan they can follow, and the confidence that they are not doing this alone.
Ask about Academy for ParentsA door that stays open when others close. Fostering safe spaces for at-risk youth; battered women; sex trafficking and human trafficking victims; veterans; families in crisis; people reentering society; those affected by alcohol and substance misuse; and rape victims — offering shelter, safety, dignity and a path forward without judgment. Your gift keeps the light on for someone with nowhere else to turn tonight.
Ask about Shepherd HouseThe people of this generation are not hard to reach — they are waiting to be heard. Creating safe spaces for these individuals to express themselves, helping them identify and cultivate their gifts, talents and skills, and assisting them with practical, available resources that best suit their needs. Your gift gives a young person a place to belong, an adult who believes them, and a first real look at what their future can hold.
Ask about NEXT Gen - Gen ZA legacy carried forward on the court and in the heart. Creative and fun basketball coaching, life skills coaching, interactive and social skills building, and mentoring support young girls and teenage females. Group support, individual support and resources are available for girls experiencing or affected by the death of a parent, grandparent or guardian, and for girls growing up without positive female role models. Here a girl can grieve, grow, laugh and lead in the same season. Your gift gives her a team, a mentor and a safe place to keep becoming who she is meant to be.
Ask about Gwen Austin*Tree 23 LegacyNo family should search alone. When someone goes missing, the first hours matter most. Jason's Call aids, informs and supports the search for missing persons and their recovery, standing alongside families, officers in uniform and media partners. We help families organize searches, connect with officers and media, coordinate accurate information, flyers and alerts, and mobilize search and volunteer support so a case is never forgotten. Throughout the waiting, families receive practical care — meals, transportation, prayer, grief and trauma support, and a companion who answers the phone at any hour — along with encouragement to hold on to hope. We remain beside them through recovery and whatever comes next. Your gift puts a steady team beside a family in the hardest hours of their lives and keeps this line open, so the next call is met with action instead of silence.
Ask about Jason's CallWisdom — Ingenuity — Evolver. A fun, active and creative space where people of all ages share conversations, exchange ideas, and learn by teaching one another what they know. Through curiosity, shared wisdom and ingenuity, participants deepen their understanding and grow together as evolvers. Your gift keeps the evolvers continually learning from one another and creating with one another.
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