Help Homeless Mercer Co. Families With HomeFront's 'Week of Hope'

PRINCETON, NJ — Mercer County-based HomeFront is celebrating "Week of Hope,” from Feb. 14-19. This gives community members a way to volunteer, participate in lectures, and other events related to helping homeless families locally.

The nonprofit’s CEO Connie Mercer said the events of this week will help people “experience that energizing feeling which comes with making someone’s life better.” It is a week of community service opportunities, plus art, discussion, and educational forums to help transform the lives of local families who are homeless.

“We call it the Week of Hope because the last 31 years have taught us that, when the community gets involved we absolutely can give families who are homeless the hope, courage, emergency services and skills they need to succeed,” Mercer said.

This year’s “Week of Hope” will include in-person opportunities to help HomeFront’s staff deliver meals to families living at local area motels, sort clothes and stock shelves at HomeFront’s FreeStore in Trenton, and work in HomeFront’s Fran’s Food Pantry or Diaper Resource Center.

There will also be several thought-provoking virtual opportunities, like a discussion of the Netflix show Maid, and its depiction of the hurdles families face to regaining stability after becoming homeless. There is also a “share the love” art project to create a collage of participants’ creations which will be hung together at HomeFront’s headquarters; a lunch and learn with HomeFront’s Chief Executive Officer, Connie Mercer, and Chief Operating Officer, Sarah Steward and many other interesting programs.

Community members interested in reading more about or signing up for “Week of Hope” events, can visit www.homefrontnj.org.