Monroe County Homeless Initiative

06/24/2020

Barb and I took a few hours at My. Airy.

03/08/2020

03/09/2019

PLEASE SHARE!!!
Tomorrow, Sunday their will be a meal at the STROUDSBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH on Main Street in STROUDSBURG from 4pm until 6pm. This is a Community Meal and all are welcome. Feel free to bring a friend along. There is plenty of parking in the rear of the church. Enter thru the rear door into the Dining Room. Hope to see you there.

06/13/2016

Thank you Christopher McCabe for originally posting this. Perhaps we could find work for our panhandlers in Stroudsburg and surrounding areas of Monroe County.

03/04/2016

We now a website called homelessbutnothelpless.com which lists all com meals and food pantries. We have partnered with New Life Food Pantry where will be doing homeless intakes, providing food and shelter contacts. As always you can contact us at:
{570}269-8916 for Barbara (Intakes and Housing)
(570)426-8916 for Ray (Operations, questions)

There will be a food pantry open Saturday.

05/29/2015

I want to reach out to all of our Facebook followers, we are in need of toilet paper, wipes and paper towels. Our supplies of these items are gone but now with summer upon us when we take out water these items are needed to help give our tent living people some way to clean up and cook and such. We are taking water out now with the warm weather upon us. Tomorrow I am going to be in Stroudsburg looking for places to have it dropped off but for now we will pick it up when we are in town. Just let me know. Ray cell: (570) 26-0419 and Barb's cell: (570) 269-8916 Thanks!

05/29/2015

The second call today was from a family who had there home destroyed in a fire and they were given a hotel room for three (3) days by the Red Cross along with a Walmart gift card and they were told that was all that could be done to help them. So here we have a woman and her children HOMELESS WITH NO PLACE TO GO! She decided that there was no help available here in Pennsylvania so she decided to go to Oklahoma, yes Oklahoma! So she gets to Ardmore Oklahoma and calls us and says she needs help. We got on the computer and we were able to give her a list of four (4) shelters in the city of Ardmore! We received a call about two hours later telling us that she and her children were safe and had been taken into a family shelter. She is going to keep in touch with us since we had been able to help her even though she was in another state. God seems to give us new challenges each day.

05/29/2015

I received a call this afternoon, a couple was looking for help and SARP gave them our telephone number. The couple came up here because he was offered a job, the job did not work out, (I didn't get into a discussion why) but they needed a place to stay, first off they were from New York so no Salvation Army because they both had documents stating they did not live here. The best I could offer them was to give them a tent and a list of churches who might be willing to purchase a bus ticket for each of them to get back to the city and return to there family. I think it's a shame that we have people living in tents in the woods to be safe and there is no shelter for them to go to. Now living in a tent they have no cooking things, they have no bathroom but it is better then them roaming the streets all night. MONROE COUNTY NEEDS A HOMELESS SHELTER!!!! ONE THAT IS OPEN 24/7--365 DAYS PER YEAR! I really thought we took steps forward but I guess we have fallen back once again. We need a shelter is all I can say!

03/28/2015

Public works crews removed at least 10 vacant tents and trailers within a homeless encampment