Our Vision as a non-profit is to help make Tulsa be a city where No One Sleeps Outside. A home is a basic necessity, essential to a human’s well-being and only once this is met, can the person address their needs. Loss of family, home and community is catastrophic to mankind and often sends people down a path they are unable to get out of by themselves. We’ve found the key to helping the chronical
ly homeless is by providing food, shelter and community. With these three basic needs being met, they can begin to rebuild. Eden Village, a program of The Gathering Tree is a 501(c)(3) that has created a proven concept by building relationships and tiny home communities for homeless individuals who have a disability. Eden Village provides dignified housing and loving supportive communities of hospitality to a city’s chronically disabled homeless population to meet the individual’s most fundamental needs. Eden Village was the first of-its-kind tiny home community that made its debut in Springfield, MO (headquarters) in August of 2018. The first community has proven the model and has lifted disabled and formerly homeless individuals off the streets and into a home within a gated community, supported by on-site support services including, but not limited to a psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse, psychiatric case managers, Qualified Mental Health Providers and a community center where the residents can both work and interact with other residents, guests and volunteers. Eden Village does not want to simply provide ‘adequate housing’ for the chronically disabled homeless. We want to create and nurture a sense of community; not only for those who live at Eden Village, but have a welcoming attitude city wide that the whole community can grow and be involved in. One of the goals of Eden Village is to spread the model across the nation. There is currently one funded and in development in Wilmington, NC, Kansas City, MO, with more in the development phase. After volunteering, exploring, and learning more about the homeless situation and specifically Eden Village, my wife and I have decided to start Eden village of Tulsa. So, I’m seeking out people from the Tulsa community who may want to roll up their sleeves and get to work in helping to make this happen, so that no one sleeps outside. Main Eden Village website:
www.edenvillageusa.org
Eden Village of Kansas City:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpogiE5OS4w
Eden Village of Wilmington, NC Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/edenvillagewilmington/
Tulsa needs something like this, many of them, in order to help address our homeless problem. Please contact Brad Johnson at 918-549-5169, or [email protected], if you’d like to become involved, support, and be a part of our team. Some wandered in the wilderness, lost and homeless. Hungry and thirsty, they nearly died. “Lord help!” they cried in their trouble, and he rescued them from their distress. He led them straight to safety, to a city where they could live.
