Clara White Mission, Inc.
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A HEALTHY START TO THE DAY.. A NUTRIOUS MEAL FOR THOSE ... STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS AT THE CLARA WHITE MISSION FEED MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE A DAY.
Sot from Norman Hill –
We appreciate the meals basically because when we get up in the morning and we go out people are looking to go to work or they have something to do, you have to have something in your belly to go out right now
FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, THE CLARA WHITE MISSION HAS GIVEN HOPE TO JACKSONVILLE'S HOMELESS VETERANS AND LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS.
IT STARTED AS A SOUP KITCHEN.... OVER THE YEARS, IT HAS GROWN INTO A COMPREHENSIVE, ONE-STOP ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER... OFFERING HOUSING, JOB TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT... AND ONE OF THE NEWEST INTIATIVES FARMING.
From the pkg about the CWM - Ju'Coby
SOT 7:17 A LOT OF THE INIATIVES THAT WE HAVE... BUILDS ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE. A MEAL PROVIDES IS GREAT. BUT, WHAT DO YOU NEED AFTER THAT. I NEED A JOB. I NEED SOME TRAINING, HOUSING.. THOSE THINGS HELP INDIVIDUALS BECOME SELF SUFFICIENT.
IT'S ABOUT HEALTH FOR THE BODY, MIND AND SOUL.
Clara White Mission, Inc.
The Clara White Mission, Inc. (CWM) is a private, non-profit organization with a 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, originally established as a feeding program (soup kitchen) in Jacksonville, Florida in 1904. CWM has as its mission "to prevent and reduce homelessness through advocacy, housing, job training and employment, and through working in partnership with the community".
The Clara White Mission provides daily hot meals, job training and employment placement, transitional and permanent housing, a drop-in center and supportive services including case management and mental health counseling for homeless and low income persons in Duval County.
The Mission's feeding program addresses hunger relief and food access through provision of daily hot, nutritionally balanced meals to all homeless and low-income persons seeking services. The program's primary goal is food security: ensuring that participants are adequately nourished and not living in hunger, or with constant anxiety about access to food. Clara White has broadened the impact of the feeding program with housing, job training and an emergency services (drop-in) center. Job training in the culinary arts supports the production of daily meals, develops marketable job skills and reduces feeding program operating costs. Training in janitorial and environmental services is also available. Fifty-two units of transitional and permanent housing options support the stabilization of homeless customers and students, and a daytime drop-in center offers immediate assistance to persons on a walk-in basis. In 2012, the Mission added urban farming to its programming, remediating a former Brownfield site and creating a productive farm that teaches agriculture and nutrition, and operates a farmer's market for residents of a large farm desert community. Through these interrelated programs, the Clara White Mission offers a truly holistic approach to health and success for its customers.
Our contact info:
904-354-4162
www.theclarawhitemission.org
meg@clarawhitemission.org