February Guest Blog: Saint Louise House
Posted on February 1st, 2012
Welcome to our February guest blog. This month we wanted to introduce you to our friends at the Saint Louise House (SLH). The SLH provides affordable housing and essential services to mothers and children impacted by homelessness in Central Texas. Many of you provided Bookshelf gifts for some of their residents this past Christmas, but our hopes is that this is just the beginning of a new partnership. So, without taking too much time, here's the January Guest Blog, by Karen Ranus:


Saint Louise House currently provides deeply affordable housing and supportive services (case management, life skills training, employment services, counseling) to 31 families who have been previously homeless. On any given night, there about 5,000 homeless individuals in the Austin area. Forty-percent of them are families and of those families, 90% are led women. While the Median Family Income (MFI) in Austin is $66,420, the average annual income for families at entry into Saint Louise House is $10,320 or $860 a month. Most of the mothers have never lived in one place for one year at any point in their adult life. The large majority have experienced violence of some kind and many of them are suffering from depression. These families are the most vulnerable in our midst, and we look to the community to partner with us in any number of ways to help these families break cycles of poverty, violence and reliance on social services. For more information about volunteer opportunities, you can visit at www.saintlouisehouse.org.
The Saint Louise House has plenty of ways to volunteer, if you or your Restore Group are interested in volunteering at the SLH, click HERE. this would be a great way to kick off the new year!
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