New Directions warming and cooling center for the homeless

07/22/2017

The 3rd Annual Little Caesars Love Kitchen will be bring their LOVE once again to New Directions Homeless shelter Sunday July 30th @11:30-2:30

FREE pizza, drinks, popcorn, cotton candy, face painting, music, fire house, bouncy house (younger kids), Laser tag (older kids), school physicals, hair cuts, door prizes, free HIV & HEP testing medical mobile, and more....

Please come enjoy an afternoon full of fun (FREE)

For information please contact Vanessa 217-473-0434

12/27/2016

Happy Holidays, to you from us at New Directions!!!
Thanks to Morgan County Housing authority for giving a gift of housing for three of our families ( Melissa and Linda)... thank you our families was able to spend Christmas in their own housing, Christmas trees and gifts thanks to everyone in our community making this holiday season a blessed season, thanks again to our community at large for their generosity

08/16/2014

Powerful video!

05/15/2014

Allison Titus Fraas
Hello! I hope this message will find Vanessa.

Vanessa,
Thank you so much for welcoming us to the New Directions home and family yesterday evening. We had a great time meeting everyone! Please do let us know of any dates this summer when dinner isn't "covered" as we'd readily return for another visit! If you think we could serve in any other capacity, please let us know.

If you think this message would be taken as positive, please pass it along. If not, please disregard . . .

--To the young woman (mother of Josh, I believe) who is looking for work as a CNA, Heritage Health has a job posted right now online . . . --

Again, thank you for welcoming our family yesterday. Our community is lucky to have you and everyone at New Directions!

-Allison Fraas

03/24/2014

If you are interested in volunteering or donating item please call Vanessa Tyus at 473-0434.

01/05/2014

WICS had the wrong information. New Directions warming and cooling center for the homeless IS open!

11/18/2013

I always hear how these "homeless" people should gets jobs, their own place etc. You never know why people are homeless. Case in point, yesterdays tragedies so close to home. There are now thousands of new homeless. Every little bit helps.

Since February 2011, the center has used more than 11,000 beds and logged more than 29,000 volunteer hours.“People have come in because their cars have broken down or they spent the night in jail and can’t get back home or have loved ones who have been sick and don’t have a place to go,” Tyus said.S...

11/13/2012

As a kid, you probably built club houses from cardboard boxes or maybe even imagined you were the ki

11/13/2012

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11/13/2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg5gJtVKpM8&feature=youtube_gdata_player