Awards
Live it Right
During the week of January 9th, a film crew from Ohio University spent time at Sojourners doing a video about our Street Outreach Program. The crew members, Matt Fillman, Riley Gibson, Karen Kasmauski and Heather Rousseau, are graduate students in the Ohio University Schools of Visual Communications (VisCom) and Film. The short film features Travis [...]
Street Outreach Worker Gets the Job Done Fast
Congratulations to Steven “Vern” Vanover, of Sojourners’ Generation Now division, for holding the record for securing a new Safe Place site, and facilitating the training of the site’s staff, in the shortest amount of time. Vern was attending a funeral near Laurelville, Ohio, where he had grown up, when he realized that the [...]
Adoption Program Honored in Nation’s Capital
Janie and Senator Mary Landrieu (LA) during Angels in Adoption pinning ceremony US Senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio) recently nominated the adoptive program of our division of Family Development to be recognized as an Angel in Adoption. The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s (CCAI) Angels in Adoption™ Program provides Members of Congress the opportunity to honor an [...]