Awards

Green Light Campaign Wins National Award

  National Runaway Safeline, the organization which sponsors the annual National Runaway Prevention Month, recently announced that Sojourners is the winner of the 2012 National Runaway Prevention Month Community Contest. Each year, NRS honors organizations and/or individuals who have taken action to raise awareness of the issues facing runaway, homeless and at-risk youth. Contestants are [...]

Team Sojo Builds winning house

  Saturday night, September 29th, Sojourners joined teams from Athens churches, Ohio University, and local nonprofits in the annual Athens Habitat for Humanity fundraiser, Cardboard City. About 200 people showed up for the event held in the Morton Hall parking lot on the Ohio University campus, raising $12,000 which will be used for the next [...]

Sojo Celebrates the Success of our Young People

  Once a year the Sojourners family comes together to honor the accomplishments of our participants during the past months. On June 14, staff and participants were joined by family members, case managers and members of the community for our 2012 Celebration of Success. The event was held at the new shelter house in Wyman [...]

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 [...]