Join Hands Day May 2

Several of us met on Friday to organize a community service project for "join hands day" which is annually, nationally held on the first Saturday of May. (visit the website to see the national perspective on this day of service). We were following up since we had to cancel the community service project from Martin Luther King Day in January due to snow and icy roads. The VISTA gals and several of us involved in the positive youth development efforts and the neighborhood work and youth transitioning to adulthood programming will work on this over the next few weeks. We are going to have a work party over at the property at 1611 Latrobe St. ( a few blocks away from our offices) where we previously operated the Gustke Shelter, and we are organizing to try to renovate the building into a transitional living situation for young adults who need a supported living situation. The work party will do some cleaning in preparation for more major renovations we are planning for the building, and try to use the opportunity to raise awareness of the needs of these transitioning youth, and what the agency is doing to try to build services and supports for the youth. We will have more information coming out shortly.