Helping Hands of Rockland

Save the Date-Helping Hands Gala - https://mailchi.mp/49c0cdd4f2e4/save-the-date-helping-hands-gala

Learn more about our online Housing Choice Voucher Program lottery and how to apply here:
https://www.rocklandcountyny.gov/Home/Components/News/News/305/746?backlist=%2f

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Happy Monday meal!

Big thank you to JCC for their day of service 1/15/24 and creating 200 'survival kits' for our homeless neighbors!

How a mobile kitchen and volunteers get hot meals to Rockland residents in need Helping Hands creates way to get hot meals to people who are food insecure anywhere in Rockland County.

Thanks for all you do to collaborate with others!

Year End Appeal 2023 -

Year End Appeal 2023

Dinner tonight at The Helping Hands mobile kitchen

The Rockland County WARMING CENTER Opens on Wednesday, November 1, 2023
50 Sanatorium Road, Pomona

The Warming Center is operated by Catholic Charities Community Services of Rockland

PICK-UP SCHEDULE
Department of Social Services, Pomona: 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri only) Building L Bus Shelter Spring Valley: 5:30 pm, 6:10 pm and 8:15 pm (7 days/week)
Spring Valley Bus and Train Station
Nyack: 7:00 pm (7 days/week) Broadway and Burd (front of First Reformed Church of Nyack)
Village of Haverstraw: 7:30 pm (7 days/week) Commuter Parking Lot across from Village Hall

Please arrive at pick-up location at least 10 minutes before scheduled pick-up. Drop off occurs the next morning. Same locations.
**After 9:00 pm, must be police drop off.

For more information
845-942-5791
845-364-2346 [email protected]

It is with a heavy heart we share the passing of Bert Huges. He was a force to be reckoned with always thinking of others and taking care of the marginalized and less fortunate within the county. Both he and his wife Chris's reach knew no bounds. If it had not been for he and his wife the Rockland Interfaith Breakfast Program would not be what it is today.He will be missed and words cannot express our sadness at this time. Rest easy kind sir....

Some more pics for Gala 203

About last night....I can not thank the 76 house enough for hosting our gala. Rob and the gang outdid themselves!!! To the board and planning committee job well done! But most of all thank you to our honorees, volunteering 30+ years! Ao many people did not nwed to go hungry!!!

There's still time to purchase tickets for our Spring Gala 2023 -

There's still time to purchase tickets for our Spring Gala 2023

Spring Gala 2023 -

Spring Gala 2023

Spring Gala 2023! For tickets go to www.rocklandhelpinghands.com

My plea to the community, the next 2 days will be deathly cold. If you should come across one of our homeless neighbors please encourage them to go to the Warming Center in Pomona or find a place to stay warm INSIDE!

Please and thank you, it takes a village!

Huge thank you to the Orangetown Library kids for adding some holiday cheer to our homeless neighbors!

Thank you Andrea Joyce for always think of the community with you kind donation!

Big thank you to Tia Maria Boutique for giving back to the community!

Year End Appeal

Dear Supporters of Helping Hands:

As winter tightens its grip on the land, the folks most affected are, as always, the homeless, together with those whose housing and access to food are insecure. The consequences of the Covid epidemic have wreaked havoc on our resources, severely affecting our ability to help those whom we have tried, for so many years, to assist. Your help has never been more urgently needed if we are not to suffer a repeat of last winter when several of our clients died. We need warm scarves and gloves, woolen hats and socks, waterproof footwear, and stout outer clothing. Men’s underwear is always needed and so very, very much appreciated by those who receive it.

While we have not yet been able to resume our “sit down” week-day breakfast program in Spring Valley, we are providing a nutritious “take-away” service of a cooked breakfast and bag lunch for 60 people each morning. We also have a mobile outreach program which takes food, clothing and other services such as help for the mentally ill, to those in the encampments to which the homeless have gravitated. Our mobile shower program has served nearly 400 people this season and while its use is now subject to the cold weather, it has proven to be a real boon for those who have benefited from it.

There is a cost associated with our work. The supplies Helping Hands gives out on the streets need to be replenished constantly; we must purchase or prepare meal kits for distribution on a daily basis; we must secure facilities and purchase and maintain equipment that need to be readied for use in the socially-distanced and sanitized post COVID-19 world. All this is a very expensive proposition and becoming more so as inflation rears its head. And these expenses are constant. Without an equally constant flow of income, we simply cannot meet them. While we will certainly welcome any donation you can make, please consider becoming a monthly sustaining donor. A small monthly amount, starting at $25, every month – less than $1 a day - charged by Helping Hands to the credit card of your choice, will help to provide us with the reliable income stream which we need so much. Please see our website www.rocklandhelpinghands.com for how to become a monthly sustaining “Friend of Helping Hands”.

Remember always that the best exercise for your heart is to reach down and help someone else up.

Thank you.
Helping Hands Board

HOME MISSION STATEMENT Helping Hands is a front line, volunteer-driven, interfaith-based human rescue organization in Rockland County that finds, engages, and assists people in their time of dire need who are homeless, in need of housing, or food insecure, regardless of their circumstances. Helping

Again a huge thank you to the 4 Girl Scout troops in Clarkstown Central School District...Socktober brought in 688 pairs of socks for out homeless neighbors!!! Way to go!!

Huge THANK YOU to Birchwood School! A school of under 70 students collected over 200 pairs of socks for their 'Socktober' Event.

Warming Center opens Nov 1. Pick up times and place in post.

𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝐬𝐭

Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Commissioner of Social Services Joan Silvestri announced the opening of the Rockland County Warming Center. Catholic Charities will once again be operating the Warming Center for up to 75 homeless single adults at the Dr. Robert L. Yeager Health Center in Pomona.

“This Warming Center will continue to help our most vulnerable residents in Rockland remain warm and safe,” 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲. “I am immensely proud of this effort and our partnership with Catholic Charities. Guests are offered a warm place to rest, showers, and laundry services with staff available to assist with benefits and referrals.”

The Warming Center will operate from November 1, 2022, through April 2023. The Center will open each night regardless of the temperature and remain open during the day when the temperature is 32 degrees or below, including wind chill.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐, 𝐚𝐭 𝟓 𝐏𝐌.

The locations and times where individuals can be picked up for transportation to the Center are:

Nyack at 7:00 p.m. at Broadway and Burd in front of the First Reformed Church of Nyack.
Haverstraw at 7:30 p.m. from the Commuter Parking Lot across from Village Hall.
Spring Valley at 5:30 p.m., 6:10 p.m., and 8:15 p.m. at the Spring Valley Bus and Train Station.
Pomona at 5 p.m. Monday through Friday only at the Building L Bus Shelter.

For more information, please call 845-828-3637 or 845-364-2346.

The Rockland County Department of Social Services will continue to run its long-established Emergency Family Shelter for children and families.

EVENT CANCELLED - https://mailchi.mp/a843775264f9/2nd-annual-fun-runwalk-13843469

EVENT CANCELLED

Come out and do some good today, and grab a lobster roll while you are at it.
Do good with denim event!
Donate some used denim and get a discount on new denim!
Shops at Nanuet!

2nd Annual Fun Run/Walk - https://mailchi.mp/18957410b969/2nd-annual-fun-runwalk-13840893

2nd Annual Fun Run/Walk

Thank you Brownie Troop 40416, you have helped make many smile! I had so much fun sitting and answering the very smart questions you asked about our homeless neighbors here in the County.