October 2024 by Joy Hanson
They are a wonderful, caring team that do so much for the community.
This is a post of the work they do Aug 2024
This is some of what our August looked like:
Family Support Program. We worked with 69 families (22 of whom are homeless) for a total of Direct Service Hours of 442 hours for the month.
We also provided out of town transportation of children for family visits.
In our Homeless and Housing Program
- We housed 3 families, hauled garbage, and prevented 5 evictions due to intense interventions and supports. We received numerous donations from the community of clothing, furniture, household items, baby items, linens, and food.
We maintained our 7 supportive housing homes - with basic home maintenance and yard care.
We gave out 320 food bags, as well as hot dogs and sandwiches when we were able, also hygiene items and assisted with applications for birth certificates, resumes, pension applications, CCB applications, health cards, income tax, housing applications, income support applications.
We also provided several with work experience to build skills.
We are in the midst of organizing the PIT (point in time) count for the number of unhoused in the community.
We are preparing for another 50/50 raffle to pay for our building property taxes of almost $10,000.
We had several outings with youth and families to the Regional Park, picking sweet grass/medicines and to Tobin Lake.
We had 35 family and youth kitchens as well as Family Barbeque for the month. We also assisted several with emergent needs of food and baby/children needs.
We assisted with school supplies.
We provided transportation for people to the Food Bank, Hospital, Medical Clinic, Pharmacy, Grocery stores and to Treatment.
We continued with our weekly cultural programming (beadwork, moccasins, sewing, traditional foods) for Elders, Cultural Leaders, families and youth that we work with. (Sorry not open to the public due to insufficient space)
We also did regulatory requirements of grant applications, statistical reporting, and funding requirements.
Like one of the employees said "What we do here really helps people, when your cupboard doors are empty or you have no pampers we truly make a difference in people's lives"
This is a snapshot of one month at the Oasis. We have a fantastic team that works so well together to provide this level of service.
We want to thank all of you that support the Oasis whether its through your kindness, words, donations of in kind or financially.
Please note that the Oasis receives no core funding from any level of gov't, pays property taxes and receives no financial support from the town of Nipawin. We write grants to do the work that the funders request of us and that is how we are able to stay open. All of the donations we receive 100% of them goes directly to the people in need in way of food or emergent needs. No $ (unless specified by donor) goes towards paying salaries, rent, transportation or admin.
Thankyou 🙂
