Waypoint locations at 103 North State Street and at 27 Burns Avenue, in Concord have been designated as Family Resource Centers of Quality (FRC-Q) by the Wellness and Primary Prevention Council of the NH legislature.
Kadyja Harris found herself homeless at just 17 years old, couch surfing in friends’ homes and utilizing temporary drop-in centers for food and clothing in the Manchester area. Like the hundreds of other homeless residents living day to day in New Hampshire, Harris didn’t know that there were options to change her life. But it was after two years of scraping by that she came in contact with a case manager from the Transitional Living Program at Waypoint.
According to Borja Alvarez de Toledo, president and CEO of Waypoint, the agency has had to suspend these services since there will be no state funding to them.
On Tuesday, advocates working on behalf of New Hampshire’s children pitched staffing a new “warmline” for families struggling to keep it together during the COVID-19 crisis. On Wednesday, Gov. John Sununu announced the new service in his daily press conference.
So far, the 2020 SleepOut has raised over $340,000 to help sustain and expand Waypoint’s critical services to young people experiencing homelessness, including street outreach, basic needs relief, crisis care, and transitional housing.
Instead of gathering at the designated sleep sites, participants in the SleepOut are being asked to stay at home on March 20, and sleep on the floor or in the yard or in some other less than comfortable way, while continuing to conduct their online fundraising campaigns.
The TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank confronts one of America’s most inconvenient truths, youth homelessness, with a gift of $25,000 to The Waypoint SleepOut. The gift comes as part of the foundation’s commitment to giving back to the community.
Register now for the March 20 SleepOut 2020.
Waypoint’s child advocacy team, Keith Kuenning and John DeJoie, were presented the Public Citizens of the Year award by New Hampshire Pediatric Society, for their extraordinary work promoting the health and welfare of New Hampshire’s children and families.
Mainstay Technologies has bestowed Waypoint with a grant of $4,400 to underwrite home study costs for grandparents in New Hampshire who want to adopt their grandchildren.
Child and Family Services, the oldest children’s charitable/family service organization in New Hampshire, has changed its name to Waypoint.