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“[Stepping Stone is] one of the best positioned shelters in the state due to actions taken and relationships made right away. Things may happen, but they were unpreventable.”
-Blaire Harrison, MN Department of Health Liaison Officer for the COVID-19 Homeless and Sheltered Response
We Need Your Help This Fall
Food Delivery Volunteers
With schools back in session, food donations are starting up, again! We’re needing some committed drivers from 1:15 pm-2:00 pm, Tuesday through Friday, to pick up food donations at three local schools and deliver them to Stepping Stone’s loading dock.
This is a contactless volunteer opportunity that we greatly need help with and appreciate any time that can be given. Must be able to lift 20 lbs.
If interested, please contact Cafeteria Manager Tammy at 763.528.0380.
Donate A Dinner
Help bring joy to our residents! Our Donate A Dinner volunteer program is back at Stepping Stone. We are now allowing groups, up to three individuals in each group maximum, back into our building for donating and serving meals. We especially need your help with meals throughout the upcoming holidays.
For more information or to sign up your group, click here.
Welcome back Serenity Village, and thank you for serving us!
Holiday Giving
This year, like so many things in our lives, we are adjusting how we celebrate the Christmas holiday with residents. We are asking for donations of one or more $25 gift cards to either Target or Walmart. Christmas can be a difficult and lonely season for anyone, but especially for those experiencing homelessness.
Your donation can help make the holidays a special time for our Stepping Stone residents!
For more information or to donate, click here.
Our Response to What is Happening in the World Right Now:
As Stepping Stone, we stand on our four pillars of empower, respect, collaborate, and steward. It’s not enough that they are on our web site and printed on a sign. We need to step up and prove that these words have power and purpose, providing us with a compass on how to live our lives, at work, at home, and in our communities.
In response to what’s happening right now, we are:
- Empowering staff and residents by providing a safe space to voice thoughts, feelings, and emotions without fear of saying the wrong thing, because saying nothing is worse.
- Respecting each other to intentionally improve upon our communication, actions, and responses to racial issues, tension, and confrontation.
- Collaborating with those who have lived experiences of homelessness and racial oppression, both staff and residents, to ensure that our communications, actions, and responses are productive and necessary.
- Being good stewards by looking after, managing, and ensuring that all residents receive the support, resources, and opportunities they need.
We continue to work hard for those who are experiencing homelessness, regardless of color, shade, blemish, and brokenness.
What Can you Do?
Click: Donate A Meal
Food Delivery Volunteer (see above)
Immediate Needs for the Kitchen:
- Saltines
- Ritz crackers or generic
- Bulk bags of potato chips
- Coffee grounds – regular only
- Nacho/tortilla chips
- Fresh apples, oranges, bananas and pears
- Canned fruit
Immediate Needs for Residents:
- New or gently used:
- XL twin sheets
- Blankets/bedding
- Kitchen utensils (for residents who are moving out)
- Toothpaste
- Toothbrushes (individually wrapped only)
- Slippers/House Shoes (variety of men’s and women’s sizes)
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When the risk of COVID-19 has decreased, please continue to remember Stepping Stone and our year round efforts:
Everyone has a place to call home. Empower. Respect. Collaborate. Steward.
A Homeless Shelter Working To End Homelessness
Stepping Stone Emergency Housing is a one-of-a-kind shelter that’s working to break the cycle of homelessness.
We’re more than “just” a place to sleep for the night. We’re a temporary, but short-term home for 66 men and women ages 18+. That means we’re here 24/7 with a bed to call your own, three meals a day, plus laundry and showers.
But that’s not all — and here’s what really makes Stepping Stone unique.
We work with residents one-on-one to create an individualized plan to help them move from homelessness to self-sufficiency. We provide a variety of on-site supports — from classes on topics like financial literacy and job interview skills to weekly medical appointments and more — to help residents take steps toward independence with dignity and compassion.
Stepping Stone is the only homeless shelter serving youth and adults in the five-county area of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Scott and Washington counties. Learn more about how to Get Involved or How to Get Help.
2020 Real Stories | One Stage – a VIRTUAL Stepping Stone Experience
Maybe you missed this year’s powerful musical portrayal of real stories of those experiencing homelessness, or want to watch it again. Hit the button below to view.
Thank you 2020 sponsors: 21st Century Bank, Financial One Credit Union, Hoffman Weber Construction, MidWestOne Bank, Blaine-Ham Lake Rotary Club, Box Financial, and Chain of Lakes Church.
2020 ParTee Fore a Purpose Annual Fundraiser
We had a beautiful day at The Refuge on September 10 for our 2020 ParTee Fore a Purpose! The Curbside Concert by Kat Perkins was the perfect way to end our successful day. Thank you Self-Sufficiency Title Sponsor, Financial One Credit Union, and ALL our sponsors, golfers, and supporters. We depend on this annual fundraiser to keep our shelter doors open.
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