South Suburban PADS (SSPADS)

✨Do you love to cook? Do you love to help out your community? Well we have just the opportunity for you!!!✨ 🍕🥗🥘🫕🍜🍝🍲Feed the budding chef inside you by pulling together a meal team to cook for about 30 to 40 people living in emergency shelter. Bring your wonderful selves together to cook a delicious community meal for those who need it most. 🍕🥗🥘🫕🍜🍝🍲 These dates are still free for meal team volunteers. August 3, August 4, August 7, August 10, August 12, August 19, August 22, August 24, August 26, August 29, August 30, August 31. 🌟Please contact the fabulous Rashida Hughes at rhughes@sspads.org or 708-515-4940 for more information. Thank you for your support! 🌟 #feedthesoul #feedthehungry #FoodSecurityForAll #housingfirst #pathwayshome #endinghomelessness #helpothers #HousingForAll #housingcrisis #unhoused #RapidRehousing #emergencyshelter #AffordableHousingNow #homelessnessprevention

Check us out! The amazing local paper the The Harvey World Herald just covered South Suburban PADS in a beautiful article and Q&A with our executive director Doug Kenshol. https://lnkd.in/gdwXXtcC

This was such a sad result to hear and will affect the clients we serve. "The Supreme Court ruled in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson that people experiencing homelessness can be arrested for sleeping in a public place when there are no other adequate shelter options provided locally. This ruling will do nothing to address the primary cause of homelessness in the United States: a severe, prolonged, nationwide shortage of affordable housing." (From the National Alliance to End Homelessness) #endhomelessness #pathwayshome #affordablehousing #unhousedneighbors #homelessnessmatters #endpovertynow

THANK YOU Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois for awarding South Suburban PADS a renewal grant! We are so joyful to have received this award to support our mission of preventing and ending homelessness. 🏘 Your support and partnership means the world to us and our clients. 💓 #PathwaysHome #CountryClubHills #BCBSIL #BlueCrossCommunity #SupportiveHousing #Wellness #HealthyFood #Health #Nutrition #PreventingHomelessness #HousingFirst #affordablehousing #affordablehousingnow

We are so grateful to partner with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois for this amazing resource fair at our Country Club Hills Wellness Center. The fresh food will go to good use providing nutrition to our residents! #PathwaysHome #CountryClubHills #BCBSIL #BlueCrossCommunity #SupportiveHousing #Wellness #HealthyFood #Health #Nutrition #PreventingHomelessness #HousingFirst

Chicago Tonight: Black Voices Upon the release of the Racial Equity Roundtable on Black Homelessness Report, the Roundtable was invited to a panel discussion on Chicago Tonight: Black Homelessness. On May 1, the panel held a roubust discussion with Chief Haley, Aisha Lehman, of UIC IRRPP, Sherri Allen Reeves, Executive Director of the Phoenix Foundation of Chicago, and Gianna Baker, the Co-Executive Director of the Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance (CAFHA).  To view the panel discussion on Homeless Disparities visit https://lnkd.in/gd7GeKRM

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Gloria Johnson, et al. v. Grants Pass, Oregon, which will determine if it’s cruel and unusual punishment to ticket and arrest citizens for sleeping in public spaces, even if they have nowhere else to go. As members of the movement to solve homelessness, you know firsthand that fines and arrest records make it even harder for people to get and keep a roof over their heads. Handcuffs do not get anyone closer to housing. The real solution is providing access to affordable housing and the support services needed to become stable. #PathwaysHome #PathwayHome #unhoused #housingfirst #HousingForAll #endinghomelesness #preventinghomelessness #HomelessnessIsSolvable #JohnsonVGrantsPass #unhousedneighbors @cmtysolutions @BuiltForZero

Get your walking shoes out! It's time to register a team of friends and family to support a good cause. CROP Hunger Walks are community-based walk fundraising events held in cities and towns across the United States to support hunger initiatives. The Homewood walk supports Church World Service's global work and local organizations, including SSPADS, Respond Now, Jones Community Center, Rich Township Food Pantry, Transformation hot meals (Harvey), and Hazel Crest Community Food Pantry. Sign your squad up to walk at https://lnkd.in/da53m54H #cropwalk #cropwalkforhunger #EndHunger #feedthehungry #community #foodpantry #walk #walking #exercise #donate #goodcause #churchworldhunger

One of SSPADS's biggest supporters is collecting food donations to give to pantries that support folks in need across the Southland, including our clients. Please help if you can! We're all in this together. Food needed! Help make the United Way of Metro Chicago's biggest food collection event of the year a success. Donations of non-perishable food and toiletries will be delivered directly to local food pantries – supporting our neighbors in the Southland. Drop off donations on April Food Day, 4/25 between 10am–2pm at the Tinley Park Convention Center. Or in advance at a participating drop-off location. #AprilFoodDay #LIVEUNITED #endhunger #unitedway #neighbors #goodneighbors #community

Thank you SO much to our recent supporters! We appreciate gifts big and small that keep our doors open, our clients housed and fed, and our staff paid! Shout out to BMO U.S., THE JOHN AND KATHLEEN SCHREIBER FOUNDATION, The Owens Foundation, United Way of Metro Chicago, Mike Cachey Construction Co, and Rotary Club of Chicago Heights-Park Forest for giving generously to SSPADS mission of preventing and ending homelessness across the Southland. We see you and we appreciate your generous gifts!!!! Pictured Doug Kenshol, Executive Director #rotary #rotaryinternational #rotarypower #rotaryclubofchicagoheightsparkforest #ChicagoHeights #chicagoland #parkforest #parkforestillinois #endinghomelessness #preventinghomelessness #unhousedneighbors #unhoused #pathwayhome #bmoharris #philanthropy #grants #grantee