Mercy House

Larry Haynes & Ed Clarke

In today’s Orange County Register, Executive Director of Mercy House Larry Haynes and Ed Clarke, associate professor of sociology and chair, department of anthropology/sociology at Vanguard University, discuss the upcoming Point-in-Time count to be conducted for the City of Costa Mesa with reporter Jim Overly. A Point-in-Time count is a single, unduplicated count of homeless individuals and families in the area.

The survey will be conducted on Wed., Sept. 28, with a followup survey Thursday morning. The survey will be conducted primarily by students of Vanguard University.

The study follows the Costa Mesa City Council’s unanimous vote Tuesday night to accept a $560,237 federal grant that will help struggling families stay in their homes, that will be managed by Mercy House and SPIN.

Read the full story in the The Orange County Register: Locals fanning out to count homeless men and women.

The City of Ontario, Calif. City Council on Tuesday approved a three-year contract with the city Housing Authority and Mercy House that would ensure services for a homeless prevention program.

The Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program would assist more than 210 homeless people in the city.

The contract will provide substantial resources to help the city and Mercy House continue their work with the homeless population, said Brent Schultz, Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization Director.

As part of the program, there will be up to $3,000 per household for rental or utility payment assistance, he said. “The real intent of this money is to stop people from getting into homeless and to stopping (homelessness) from occurring,”

Read the story by Liset Marquez, “Ontario council approves help for homeless,” in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.

For the second year, Mercy House will be operating the Orange County Armory Cold Weather Emergency Shelter Program this winter.

The Armory program provides up to 350 beds per night for the homeless in Fullerton and Santa Ana.  Volunteers will be needed seven days per week to help both in the evening and morning hours.

To find out more information and about how you or your group can get involved in this effort, please join us at one of our Volunteer Information Sessions:

Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009 from 12-2 p.m.

or

Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 from 6-8 p.m.

At:

Emmanuel House
807 N. Garfield St.
Santa Ana, CA 92701

Please RSVP to Ashleigh Anderson Camba at 714-836-7188 x 124 or email ashleigha@mercyhouse.net.

DollarDays is an online wholesale distributor that allows you to donate to Mercy House by purchasing items that are on our wish lists.

DollarDays offers 25,000 high-quality goods at wholesale and bulk prices. We have chosen items we are in need of, and you can simply purchase them online, and then they are sent directly to our shelters.

Your donations will help the families and individuals living in our shelters by providing basic necessities, such as, household items, to improve their quality of life. Just click on the Mercy House shelters below to see their wishlists!

Emmanuel House

Orange County Cold Weather Armory Emergency Shelter Program

Emergency Walk-In Center

Regina House

Joseph House

Assisi House

Trinity House

LIVING WITH HEART
Happy Hour benefiting Mercy House
First Monday of Every Month
Proof Bar, 5 to 8 p.m.
215 North Broadway, Santa Ana

Featuring a signature “Heartini” cocktail created specially to benefit Mercy House
• opportunity drawing • light appetizers • networking •
$10 donation suggested

Proof Bar generously will donate 25 percent of event sales to Mercy House.
Proof Bar offers eclectic music and a fully stocked bar, all in a semi-intimate setting. The lounge area has a cosmopolitan feel with a dramatic 25 foot lifted ceiling, smooth natural and atmosphere lighting and indoor vines twisting upward from rock bed. www.proofbar.com

Mercy House is a non profit 501(c)3 organization providing homeless prevention, emergency services, transitional housing and permanent housing with supportive services to families and individuals.

R.S.V.P. to 714-862-1112 or jamie.miller@wundermarx.com

Click here to download the invite PDF