Safe Place program
New Safe Place Sites Added
The staff of Generation Now has made finding and securing new Safe Place sites a priority of the division, and their hard work is paying off. In February they added 12 new sites, which brings the total to 31 sites spanning six counties in southeastern Ohio. Staff will continue to work with law enforcement, libraries, [...]
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 [...]
The World Came to Sojourners
Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, South Sudan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, USA This summer, Sojourners had an exciting opportunity to collaborate with Ohio University in Athens in an exciting educational project with UNICEF. The university was one of just four in the United States chosen to host a UNICEF Communications for Development (C4D) training for UNICEF officers [...]