Generation Now
We Are Looking to Hire 17 VISTA Members
SOJOURNERS VISTA PROGRAM fighting poverty with passion Are you looking for a full-time job where you can make a difference in peoples’ lives? Or, a summer job where you can have fun and help people? Sojourners is recruiting for 17 AmeriCorps VISTA positions for two AmeriCorps VISTA programs which are funded through a grant from [...]
We Celebrate National Safe Place Week with 11 New Safe Place Sites
Young people who find themselves in trouble in southeast Ohio, now have several new places to go for immediate help. We have recently added 11 new Safe Place sites, bringing the total the organization coordinates to 45 sites in seven counties. This week is National Safe Place Week and we are really pleased to be [...]
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 [...]
Sojourners Welcomes Community to Openhouse
Sojourners will hold an open house for the community on Thursday, December 6th from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm on its main campus at 605 West Main Street, McArthur, Ohio. Displays will be set up featuring information and slide shows about the programs in each of our three programmatic divisions—Family Development (foster care and adoption), [...]
Sojourners Best Ever Chinese Auction This Thursday
Sojourners will host its fourth—and best—annual Chinese auction on Thursday, November 15 at the Vinton County Community Building. The doors open at noon and the drawings begin at 7:00 pm. All proceeds from the event will provide holiday activities for Sojourners foster youth and transitional living participants. Persons bidding in the auction do not [...]
Green Light Project Raises Awareness of Runaway Youth
November is National Runaway Prevention Month and Sojourners is joining organizations all across the country in the fight against youth homelessness. National Runaway Prevention Month is co-sponsored each year by the National Runaway Switchboard and the National Network for Youth. The goals of the month are to raise awareness about the issues that runaways [...]
New Grant Keeps Services Out On The Street
Sojourners has recently received a $600,000 Runaway & Homeless Youth Street Outreach grant from the Department of Health & Human Services Administration for Children and Families. The grant will fund the Sojourners Street Outreach Program, known as Sojo Street Reach, for the next three years. Street Outreach programs support work with homeless, runaway and [...]
Donkey Coffee and Espresso becomes new safe place site
Donkey Coffee and Espresso, 17 ½ West Washington Street, has become Sojourners’ newest Safe Place site in Athens County. The award-winning coffee house is owned by Angie and Chris Pyle. Angie and Chris think becoming a Safe Place site makes perfect sense for Donkey Coffee because their vision is to provide a welcoming place for [...]
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 [...]
It Takes a Village to Feed Its Children
44%. 66.7% Those are the numbers—the numbers of hunger. These are the facts. 44% of children in Ohio receive free or reduced lunches in school. 66.7% of children in Vinton County receive free or reduced lunches in school.* Vinton County has the highest percentage of children receiving free and reduced lunches in the [...]