Family Village Update

Spring has sprung! We have eleven raised beds with vegetables and herbs. This is our first spring at Family Village and it's been so fun to see flowers blooming all over the campus.

We continue to operate Family Village at full capacity. We're more grateful than ever to have individual private bedrooms that help with social distancing. Sadly, all of our common spaces are closed, but we're still serving meals and following public health guidelines to keep all of the staff and families safe. Spoiler alert: it's a lot of cleaning!

Our housing and prevention programs also continue full steam ahead. Just this week, one of the moms in shelter found out that she was approved to move into an apartment. She is so excited to move her two girls into the safety of their very own home.

While rewarding, doing this work right now is incredibly challenging and expensive. We've had to continually adapt our programming to meet changing public health guidance, and we have had to source scarce and expensive personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies.

We don't know what the future holds, but we do know that families without homes have been, and will continue to be, more vulnerable to the effects of this virus. We also know that PHFS will be here to support these families no matter what.

Please consider a donation to PHFS' COVID-19 response fund to make sure we can continue operating our critical services during this pandemic.