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We need your help to stock our emergency food pantries! NAC is looking for individuals or groups to pick a month to conduct a specific food drive for our clients and residents.
For example, cereal in February, peanut butter and jelly in March or canned tuna and meats in September. Your efforts will bring a smile to the face of someone who would otherwise be hungry or eat foods that may not be as nutritious.
Many of the residents in NAC housing communities are struggling to keep food on the table. Families and formerly homeless men and women often have incomes so low that meeting everyday basic needs is an issue. They are often left with choosing between the family food bill and the cost of medical care or school supplies. NAC tries to maintain emergency food pantries at each of our housing communities to help fill this need. We would love to have a Food Champion for every month of the year to help us fill those pantries.
Becoming a Food Champion is a great project for scout troops, schools, community service organizations, faith based communities, families or the workplace. Food Champion Drives can be promoted through your social media – NAC is happy to cross promote! We can also arrange to pick up donated items.
Please call or email PJ Jasso to sign up to be a Food Champion.
Contact PJ Jasso at p.jasso@nativeconnections.org or 602-254-3247
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A "chronically homeless" individual is defined to mean a homeless individual with a disability who lives either in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter or in an institutional care facility if the individual has been living in the facility for fewer than ninety (90) days and had been living in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven or in an emergency shelter immediately before entering the institutional care facility. In order to meet the ‘‘chronically homeless’’ definition, the individual also must have been living as described above continuously for at least twelve (12) months or on at least four (4) separate occasions in the last three (3) years, where the combined occasions total a length of time of at least twelve (12) months. Each period separating the occasions must include at least seven (7) nights of living in a situation other than a place not meant for human habitation, in an emergency shelter or in a safe haven.
Federal nondiscrimination laws define a person with a disability to include any (1) individual with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; (2) individual with a record of such impairment; or (3) individual who is regarded as having such an impairment. In general, a physical or mental impairment includes, but is not limited to, examples of conditions such as orthopedic, visual, speech and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), developmental disabilities, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.