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News & Views | July 21, 2017

Resource Center Receives Grant

Open House Ministries receives $750,000 gift from the Tod and Maxine McClaskey Foundation for the Open House Ministries Family Resource Center.

Tod and Maxine McClaskey Foundation Grant

Open House Ministries announced this week a major financial commitment to its capital campaign to fund construction of a family resource center on its campus in downtown Vancouver.

The Tod and Maxine McClaskey Foundation has awarded a $750,000 grant to the $3.3 million dollar project. In recognition of this commitment, Open House Ministries will be naming their new campus addition the Tod and Maxine McClaskey Family Resource Center.

Open House Executive Director Renee Stevens comments, “The Tod and Maxine McClaskey Foundation has been a leader and champion for important projects in our community. Open House is honored and blessed for their generous support.”

The new Tod and Maxine McClaskey Family Resource Center will make a profound impact on the local community. The facility will provide a safe and secure indoor space for families and children to play and recreate, 365 days of the year. The facility is designed to accommodate moving administrative offices currently residing in the shelter. This will free up originally permitted apartments and allow them to be restored to their intended use: housing homeless families. Open House Ministries provides shelter for up to 107 individuals every night, over half of whom are children under the age of 17 years.

Stevens continues, “This facility will also allow us to reach people in our community and help those who are suffering with mental health, drug and alcohol, or barely making their house payments. We offer Financial Peace classes, life skills, GED, education, and we want to offer those to our community at large. So you won’t have to be homeless to use the new facility.”
Youth intervention is a high priority today. Stevens explains, “What we do here at Open House Ministries absolutely changes people’s lives, but our youth programs have been limited by our physical space. The new facility will literally give us the space to grow Open House Ministries youth programs, for our residents and surrounding community.”

So far the capital campaign has generated $2.8 million dollars towards its goal of $3.3 million dollars. Support for the project also includes a recent grants from the Firstenburg Foundation and the generosity of private philanthropists. Stevens concludes, “This new building will allow us to better serve our families, our community, our staff, our volunteers and anyone who stops by and needs a sleeping bag, a drink of water or cup of coffee. We need to be doing God’s work and meet people right where they are today.”

Open House Ministries is a faith-based community organization serving homeless families by providing shelter, intervention services and Christ-based life restoring programs to homeless families.

For more information contact
Judy McMorine, Development Director
Open House Ministries
900 West 12th Street
Vancouver, WA

News & Views | May 24, 2017

Breaking Ground On The Family Resource Center

We’re thrilled to announce we’ve finally broken ground on the 15,588 square foot Family Resource Center!

The Resource Center will provide a mix of classrooms, offices, conference rooms and a gymnasium, along with satellite offices for community partners who work alongside us in our mission. Please read the Columbian article about the event, and if you’d like to support the project, which is 86% funded, contact Judy McMorine here or visit our Donation page to make a financial gift.

News & Views | March 16, 2017

Open House Has A New Executive Director

VANCOUVER, Washington – Open House Ministries announced today the appointment of Renee Stevens to the position of Executive Director, effective immediately.-

As Senior Case Manager, Stevens brings 12 years of social service management and homeless provider network experience. Board Chairman Dick James says, “Renee brings a depth and understanding of the social service needs for the population we serve and years of working with our strategic partners in Southwest Washington and throughout the Pacific Northwest. She has personally been responsible for forging and strengthening key alliances. Renee is a strong leader internally, in Vancouver and in the region. She is passionate about finding solutions for homeless families.”

See the Columbian article about Renee’s story

The announcement comes as a result of former Director Wayne Garlington’s decision twelve months ago of plans to retire in early 2017. In light of the news, the Board of Directors formulated a transition plan which included an external and internal search for a new Executive Director. Effective immediately Garlington is stepping aside to assume the position as Project Manager for the organization’s Multi-Purpose Building Project while remaining available to assist Renee in the transition. Garlington joined the Open House Board of Directors in 2003 and has served as Executive Director since 2012.

“Working with Renee for the last dozen years has given me an appreciation for the unique talents she brings to Open House,” says Garlington. “She has been at the core of our programs, remaining true to our mission while always looking ahead. Renee continues to be a visionary and champion for the needs of homeless mothers, fathers and children. She is an inspiration to residents and staff alike.”

“I am looking forward to continuing to serve our homeless families and our amazing partner organizations in this new capacity,” remarks Stevens. “I am dedicated to this work because it provides vital services and hope for a new life to the homeless. I have seen the Open House Ministries experience change lives and help people start over who otherwise would not have had a chance. I am honored and blessed to be given this opportunity to serve.”

Founded in 1986, Open House Ministries is a faith based community organization, helping homeless families by providing shelter, intervention, and Christ-based, life-saving programs.

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