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Support through grants, funding Father Joe’s Villages kept warm this winter with the gracious support of public and private contributors. By Angela Bull S.V.D.P. Management e Capital Development division of Father Joe’s Villages was thrilled to have its Boulevard Apartments project awarded with funding from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, California Debt Limit Allocation Committee, and the City of San Diego A ordable Housing Program. e division’s Senior Development O cer, Lisa Hu , also received a scholarship for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation 2008 California Statewide A ordable Housing Development Training Institute. Separate from Capital Development, Father Joe’s Villages received a subcontract for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Homeless Management Information System grant with the Regional Task Force on the Homeless in San Diego. Toussaint Academy of the Arts and Sciences e Billingsley Foundation and the Masserini Charitable Trust and French Fund each supported Toussaint Academy with $10,000 in support of general operating costs. Qualcomm Incorporated awarded a generous grant of $30,000 in support of costs related to internship and a ercare expenses for graduates of the program. St. Vincent de Paul Village e U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development chose to renew its grants to St. Vincent de Paul Village and its Solutions Consortium partners for another year of providing shelter and services to residents of its transitional and permanent housing facilities in the amount of $4,481,494. e Children’s Services program received general operating grants from the San Diego Marriott Business Council for $2,000 and the CW5 “Cares for Kids” Fund for $20,000. e Village Family Health Center (VFHC) is grateful to the California Department of Health Services for its decision to renew its Expanded Access to Primary Care program for an additional three years. Likewise, the VFHC obtained a variety of support from recent grants, including $43,376 from the City of San Diego for services provided by the Mobile Health Clinic at the city’s Winter Shelter, $1,000 from San Diego City Schools to cover the cost of medications, and $5,500 from the Pierre Fauchard Academy Foundation in support of dental supplies. In combination with Mental Health Services, the VFHC received a $50,000 grant from e Mason Hirst Foundation to pay for salaries, equipment, supplies and related costs. Union Bank of California gave $40,000 to help support the costs of serving families with children residing at the Village and the U.S. Department of Veterans A airs renewed its Per Diem program at the Village to serve homeless veterans and their families living there, as well. Martha’s Village & Kitchen e Champion’s Volunteer Foundation gave $6,000 to Martha’s Children’s Services program in support of general operating costs. e Emergency Assistance program received $5,000 from the Regional Access Project Foundation in support of Emergency Food Baskets and the Emergency Shelter program received $5,000 from Union Bank of California Foundation in support of general operating costs. e Food Services program received $40,000 from Desert Classic Charities, and $15,000 from the City of Rancho Mirage to help with the cost of food. In the nearby Medical Clinic, the County of Riverside Economic Development Agency awarded $10,000 to help cover the cost of a registered nurse’s salary. In addition, the Medical Clinic received a $50,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation and a $25,000 grant from the Bank of America Foundation. Finally, the Dragicevich Charitable Foundation provided $5,000 to help support the Village overall, which will be used in conjunction with a $525,000 Supportive Housing Program grant from the County of Riverside Department of Public Social Services, as funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. As always, Father Joe’s Villages is grateful to all who choose to invest in the success and well-being of our neighbors in need. Angela Bull is the contract compliance manager for Father Joe’s Villages. Thank you Linc Ward 2007 Children’s Charity Honoree and recipient of the Father Joe’s Villages Award Your generosity, and that of all Children’s Charity Honorees, is a gift to San Diego. Melba Provence Students from Pepperdine University met with Father Joe Carroll as part of an alternative spring break program called Project L.E.A.D. — Leadership Education And Development. e group of nine students and two sta coordinators embarked on a road trip March 3-7 that took them to San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco and Sacramento. In each city, students conducted VILLAGE NEWS, Spring 2008 15 Neighbor Helping Neighbors VILLAGE NEWS Patricia M. Walsh Pepperdine University students meet with Father Joe Carroll. Lessons in leadership leadership workshops at local high schools to encourage high school students to take responsibility for leading positive change within their schools. The team also met with prominent community leaders to discuss leadership and life experience. Among other leaders they met with were Dr. Charles Elachi, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Sen. Dave Cox. A special thank you goes out to the following churches for supporting the Million Meals Program and raising more than $6,000 by taking an additional collection at church services on Feb. 3, 2008, Super Bowl Sunday. Ascension Parish SM Blessed Sacrament Parish Christian Fellowship Congregational Church The Immaculata Parish Normal Heights United Methodist Church Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, San Diego Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish Youth Ministries St. Anthony of Padua Parish St. John of the Cross Parish St. Peter’s By the Sea Lutheran Church Torrey Pines Christian Church
16 VILLAGE NEWS, Spring 2008 Earlie ‘Candy’ McClain August 22,1939 – Feb. 25, 2008 Earlie McClain was an employee of St. Vincent de Paul Village in the maintenance department since Dec. 12, 1997. A er a long ght with cancer, Mr. McClain died at home with his loved ones present. Mr. McClain was born on August 22, 1939, to the late Earlie McClain and Josephine Underwood in Meridian, Miss. He moved to San Bernardino, Calif., in 1966, where he worked as a mechanic for many years. His hobbies as a young man were shing, skating, bike riding Earlie McClain Special to VILLAGE NEWS and dancing. Mr. McClain moved his family to San Diego in 1987, where he later became employed with St. Vincent de Paul Village. He joined Good Shepherd Baptist Church in 2001 where he worshipped until the time of his death. He leaves to cherish him, his wife Margie McClain, four sons: James McClain of San Bernardino, Calif., Dennis McClain of Mississippi, Earl McClain and Tommy Wright, both of San Diego; four daughters: Gaynell Wright and Malinda McClain both of San Bernardino, Mellodee McClain of Barstow, Calif.; and Ruby McClain of San Diego; two sisters: Lessie Shack of Mississippi and Bobbie McClain of Florida; 23 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren and a host of relatives including cousins, nephews and nieces. Mr. McClain, who was best known to his family and friends as “Candy” or “Candy Man,” has taken his nal journey to reunite with his daughter who preceded him in death, Monsha McClain. Kindly remember in prayer these friends of Father Joe’s Villages who left legacies to help our neighbors in need omas John Colling John B. Gardner Richard Guy Van Ingraham Robert Kane Adelle Alma Kelsey Florence May Catherine “Kay” Meierbachtol Myron Moore John Rockwell Anthony John Rosa Margaret Spellacy Takeko “Judy” Siemienczuk VILLAGE NEWS Emily Velez-Confer Father Joe Carroll digs in to break ground for Boulevard Apartments, which will provide affordable family housing in North Park. Assisting in the groundbreaking are, from left, Frank Riley, Housing and Urban Development; Wendy DeWitt, San Diego Housing Commission; and San Diego District 3 Councilmember Toni Atkins. Mary Case Continued from page 5 with a weekly renewable voucher from the referring agency. We soon realized we had to rethink it.” “Rethinking it” ful lled the plan to create an agency-based continuum of care and eventually every program and service necessary to regain a life under one roof. “Looking back it’s amazing how few problems we’ve had, what we’ve done and how many people we’ve housed and helped,” Case says. “I just rolled with Father Joe’s ideas. I never saw it as too much.” Like in December 1986 when Case was eight months pregnant with her third son and Father Joe decided to have a holiday shelter at Golden Hall. “So there I was running around at the shelter eight months pregnant,” she recalls. With the support of her husband Terry, whom she will be married to 30 years in August, Case was able to do it all – raise a family and a have a conscience-driven career. “It’s a legacy that you need to give back, you need to see how you can make a di erence,” Case says. “I really feel like I did that knowing it was the right thing to do.” How would life be di erent if she hadn’t done the right thing? “We joke about that because there are people who see the agencies as the problem. ey think if it weren’t for us, the homeless wouldn’t be here.” Birdies for Babies Golf Tournament Monday, May 12, 2008 Bernardo Heights Country Club For more information, contact Ryan Pocock at 619.446.2119, or ryan.pocock@neighbor.org. Register online at www.birdiesforbabies.org. A ordable Housing Continued from page 1 families,” says District 3 Councilmember Toni Atkins. “ is project will bring us one step closer toward our goal to provide a ordable housing for homeless families in San Diego. It not only lls a need, but also contributes to the ongoing revitalization e orts in North Park.” Boulevard Apartments will have three 1-bedroom apartments, 18 2-bedroom apartments, three 3-bedroom apartments, underground parking and a roo op garden and play area. Costs are estimated to be $11 million. Nine apartments will be available for families that are at risk of becoming homeless and have at least one adult with special needs. Another affordable housing tower is currently under construction at 16th and Market Streets in downtown San Diego. When complete, the building will be the rst ever high-rise to o er 100 percent a ordable housing in San Diego for families. e 12-story building will provide 136 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Japan Continued from page 13 e cultural exchange allowed us to share our experience working with immigrant youth and issues of diversity. Visiting one of the Japanese nonpro ts gave TAAS sta an amazing case of déjà vu. e Yokohama agency Y-MAC assists youth with education and employment, has dormitories for 30 young people, and even has a restaurant, which employs participants and graduates from their program. To the smallest detail, one could have easily just described TAAS and our café, Pierre’s Place. is year marks the 50th anniversary of the Sister City relationship between San Diego and Yokohama. We are looking forward to playing host when delegates from Yokohama visit San Diego in 2009. Until then … Sayonara! Rick Newmyer is director of Toussaint Youth Villages.
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