The Bridge Youth and Women's Club of Inverness Help Homeless

The Bridge Youth & Family Services and the Women’s Club of Inverness (WCI) co-sponsored a community service project to help the area’s homeless. Youth between the ages of 7 and 17, their mentors, and WCI volunteers provided homemade heart-shaped cookies to the homeless with notes of encouragement written by the children. The youth in The Bridge’s mentoring program also made fleece blankets to send along with the cookies to help keep PADS/Journeys service recipients warm. These goodies were delivered to PADS guests at All Saints Lutheran Church in Palatine. Some blankets were also shared with WINGS to give to children in its emergency shelter.

“Our primary mission is to provide a warm, dry, safe place to stay and nutritious food to the homeless persons who come to us in need. We strive to provide these services as though they were guests in our home. Expressions of caring like those The Bridge Youth and Family Services and WCI provided are a great extension of those efforts,” said Tom Germuska, Co-Site Director at All Saints Lutheran Church.

The Women’s Club of Inverness is a philanthropic organization dedicated to serving the needs of women, children, families and seniors in Inverness and its surrounding communities in Illinois.

The mentoring program at The Bridge Youth & Family Services works with children between the ages of 7 and 18 who are most often referred to the program by school social workers and Bridge therapists. Youth are matched one-on-one with adult mentors who commit to spending a few hours per week with their mentee for one year. As part of the mentoring program, youth and their mentors plan and complete service projects to benefit their own community.

Those who are interested in learning more about how they can positively impact a child’s life are invited to contact Liz Dobrzynski, Mentoring Program Coordinator, at 847-485-3061 or Ldobrzynski@bridgeyouth.org or visit http://www.bridgeyouth.org. The Bridge Youth & Family Services is located at 721, S. Quentin, Palatine.

WCI will host its annual Spring Fashion Show on Thursday, April 12th at The Stonegate Conference & Banquet Centre. For tickets, please contact Karen Kallman (karenkallman@aol.com or 847-397-8955). Want to learn more about Women’s Club of Inverness? Feel free to call President Eileen Kohne, at 847-202-0044 or visit their website www.womensclubofinverness.com.