HomeFront Receives an Early Christmas Gift!
| The Times of Trenton Editorial - 12/22/2009
STAFF WRITER
There is not a bit of ambiguity when it comes to the name of HomeFront's Family Preservation Center. That is exactly what the center is all about and what it continues to accomplish each day. Not an easy task in the best of circumstances, family preservation becomes even more challenging and difficult when the families in question have lost the grounding of their own home or temporary shelter. And while the reasons are legion and often linked, homelessness recently seems to be hitting families harder than individuals. <<Read more>> |
An Appeal During a Year of Crisis
What will the holidays look like to the children of families in crisis in Central New Jersey without our help? There will be no turkey dinner on the table — and possibly no table. What will Christmas be like without our help? There will be no tree and no presents when they wake up. There will be no morning of play and family — without our help.
This holiday season comes at a time of national economic crisis. More and more children and families face losing their homes. More face a time of desperation and loneliness, not a time of celebration.
Foreclosures hit a record high during the third quarter of 2009. Many hardworking people lost their jobs—and then lost their homes. And all of this pain was reflected in the growing crowd of people gathered at the front desk of HomeFront, looking for food, shelter and help. During the past year the number of people asking us for help has increased 34%. <<Read more>>
HomeFront Gave Me a Chance
When I was 8, I was living in a room at my grandma’s apartment with my mom and two sisters. We didn’t have enough money for our own place because my mom never graduated from high school. When grandma got laid off from her job and had to move to a smaller place, we couldn’t go with her because there was just no room.
I remember watching my grandma and my mom both crying that day because they didn’t know what to do. Finally someone sent us to live in a welfare motel on Route 1. The motel room was so small and dark and smelled awful. We weren’t allowed to drink the water or take a bath because the water was brown and smelled. We couldn’t play outside because there were so many men living at the motel who were scary. <<Read More>>
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NEWS
A Message from HomeFront's Executive Director Connie Mercer
In 2009, HomeFront received 13,928 pleas for help from families facing homelessness, hunger and all the other economic, social and personal problems that go with poverty. This is part of the reason we need your help: Read more
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