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SPRING 2021 FOOD, WARMTH and SHELTER THAT’S OUR MISSION! INSIDE, MORE on WHAT WE’RE DOING to BUILD COMMUNITY News SPRING 2021 FOOD, WARMTH AND SHELTER THAT’S OUR MISSION! INSIDE, MORE ON WHAT WE’RE DOING TO BUILD COMMUNITY news FOOD WARMTH SHELTER A Letter from Director Carrie Borgen Dear Community, I am excited to introduce myself as the new ACCESS Executive Director. As an Arizona transplant, I was thrilled to learn about this incredibly generous community, our collaborative nonprofit partners, and the supportive government agencies. After the COVID-19 and local fires crises, seeing the results from the community’s generous support and the ACCESS team’s hard work for our neighbors was incredibly heartwarming. I am proud to call Jackson County my new home! It has been a pleasure working with the exceptional ACCESS Board, the talented ACCESS leadership team, and meeting the dedicated professionals on our staff who strive to provide food, warmth, and shelter to Jackson County’s most vulnerable every day. I bring to ACCESS several years’ experience as an executive director for a large domestic violence shelter. I also spent 20 years as a healthcare executive leading various organizations, ranging from venture-backed startups to Fortune 100 companies. I welcome input from the community as we work to ensure that our Jackson County neighbors’ long-term needs are met. Please reach out to me directly at [email protected] or 541-779-6691. SNAPSHOTS 12th Annual Mayors Food for Hope a Huge Greystone Court Food United Event Success Drive Feeds the Hungry Please join ACCESS for a virtual December’s Food for Hope A special thank you to the celebration at the Mayors United grocery bag drive was a huge Greystone Court neighbors, Event on Friday, March 5th, success thanks to donors like Asante, and all of you for helping from 6 pm - 7 pm. This fun, you and ACCESS community ACCESS collect enough food and free event will include musical partners, Sherm’s Food 4 Less cash donations to provide more entertainment, a live auction, and Thunderbird Market. than 120,000 meals for hungry and so much more. More ACCESS raised $53,000, which families and children over the information on page 8. equals 212,000 meals, and holidays. collected 9,400 pounds of food. 2 / ACCESS NEWS Designed In-house - Written by Employees - Printed Locally FOOD WARMTH SHELTER COVID RELIEF IMPACT 65,000 emergency food boxes built and distributed to local ACCESSfamilies after COVID-19 hit 1,651 households served with COVID energy assistance funds, representing 3,349 individuals 500 families provided with rental assistance through the COVID Relief Program $2,143,478 in rental assistance invested into our communities COVID Relief Program Helps Change Lives Shenee had a well-paying job, supporting herself and her three children, when COVID-19 struck. She got sick and had to miss work. Unable to afford rent or a hotel bill because she had to take time off work, Shenee found herself living in her car. She was cold and getting sicker. ACCESS was able to help her get into a hotel, find an apartment, and pay her rental deposit and two months’ rent to give her time to recover. “I can’t stop talking about ACCESS and their programs and telling all my friends we don’t have to be homeless,” says Shenee. “Thank you for saving my family in more ways than you could understand. ACCESS is truly an organization in our community making a difference and changing lives.” “Thank you for saving my family in more ways than you could understand.” ACCESS NEWS / 3 A Blessing from Wildfire Tragedy Jesus works full-time as a farmworker and is the sole breadwinner for a family of seven. On September 8th, 2020, they lost everything when their apartment burned to the ground in the ACCAlmedaESS wildfire. They found themselves homeless, staying in a hotel for 2 ½ months, and did not know where to turn for help. Using the ACCESS Fire Relief and Recovery Fund, which is made up of donations from generous people, businesses and foundations, ACCESS assisted Jesus’ family with a rental deposit and four months’ rent. This helped them start to rebuild their lives. Additionally, a donor reached out to help provide the funding to furnish Jesus’ family’s new home since they had lost everything in the fire. “ Thank you, ACCESS, from the bottom of my heart,” says Jesus. “ACCESS is a blessing I would never have imagined coming from this horrible nightmare we experienced on September 8th.” “ACCESS is a blessing I would never have imagined coming from this horrible nightmare we experienced.” 1,894 individuals provided with medical equipment 550 fire survivors sheltered 548 veterans and their families assisted with housing 936 low-income neighbors assisted with housing 3,940 households served with Energy Assistance ACCESS BY THE 60 homes weatherized NUMBERS IN 2020 247 households received mortgage assistance 4 / ACCESS NEWS “Your help has meant more than you will ever know.” ESS ~DME participant A CC E S S ACCESS Pantries Adapt as the Partners Demand for Food Increases with Rogue Food Unites Through both the COVID-19 crisis and area wildfires, the ACCESS Nutrition Department focused on ensuring that disruptions created in ACCESS is proud to families’ lives were not compounded by concerns over where the next partner with Rogue Food meal might come from. When COVID-19 hit, ACCESS kept enough Unites to help feed fire pantries open throughout Jackson County to provide food assistance victims and help the local to vulnerable neighbors at a time when the demand for food spiked economy by working up to 80%. When pantries could safely start bringing volunteers back, with restaurants affected ACCESS had a plan in place to re-open pantries using a drive-thru financially by COVID to style, distributing pre-packaged food boxes from the ACCESS Food provide hot meals! Bank. Just as the ACCESS pantry system was getting comfortable with this ACCESS Food Bank new food distribution process during the COVID-19 crisis, the fires hit. Many fire victims are still staying in hotels and motels and don’t in 2020: have access to kitchens, so food needs to be provided differently. In Served 40,021 individuals response, ACCESS teamed up with organizations like Rogue Food Unites to provide hot meals and food vouchers. ACCESS’ commitment Distributed 5.5 Million to addressing food insecurity means adapting to the situation to reach Pounds of Food those most in need. ACCESS Pantries Exemplify Community Service While most ACCESS pantries are open during COVID-19 in a drive-through style, a few, such as First Presbyterian Church (FPC), have had to temporarily shut down. Rather than sitting on the sidelines, FPC stepped in to help the West Medford Pantry. This partnership, along with help from the Medford School District, has resulted in improved processes, expanded pantry space, extended hours, increased numbers of volunteers, and more food insecure neighbors being served – by over 30% a week! ACCESS is grateful for our dedicated partners who exemplify selfless community service. ACCESS NEWS / 5 FOOD WARMTH SHELTER A Veteran’s InspirationACC to ESS Change Direction “Leo” is a Veteran who was “just about ready to tap Leo continues, “Some days, I want to give in to out and just be a homeless alcoholic, don’t-give- the easier, softer way. But then I remember that a-darn Veteran in a tent” when he met ACCESS darn tent on the river and this awesome guy case manager Marty Thomas. Marty, who is also named Marty Thomas who helped me believe in a Veteran, shared his own story, which had some myself again.” Ending Veteran homelessness is parallels with Leo’s. The story inspired Leo to the mission of the ACCESS SSVF Program. With choose a different path. “The fact that you went the help of case managers like Marty, ACCESS gets through (rehab at the VA) and became a social closer to that goal every day. worker working with veterans has given me a new sense of direction,” Leo told Marty. “I feel blessed to have had you as my worker. I really don’t see it If you are a Veteran who needs help, working out this well any other way.” call (541) 779-6691. Community Justice Provides Much Needed Services “Housing is at the center of recovery for so many of the people under supervision. ACCESS is a key player in wrap-around services provided through the Community Justice Resource Center. ACCESS works alongside La Clinica, which provides Health Navigation services, Cutting Edge Employment, which provides on-the-job assistance, the ARC, which addresses Substance Use Disorders and Pathfinders Inc., which offers peer support and skill-building. The end result is that clients can have many of their needs met in one place, building a foundation for their success in the community. ACCESS is skilled and motivated at working with clients who have experienced housing instability and have barriers to obtaining housing. Clients feel respected and empowered by the way ACCESS provides services.” Eric Guyer, Director, Jackson County Community Justice 6 / ACCESS NEWS ACCESS Helps Make ACCESSHomeownership Possible Did you know that Energy appointments can Life is unpredictable, exciting, now be scheduled scary and rarely goes as you plan it. Even though life can be online? uncertain, one thing I know to be Visit www.accesshelps. true is that hard work does have org/energy to schedule an a reward. appointment today! My children and I moved to Oregon in 2013 after leaving Arizona and an abusive relationship. I had no plan, two small children, and no support. I was in debt and heartbroken but knew we had to start over.
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