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Thank you outgoing Board President, Laura Warren and welcome incoming President, Linda Berger.

One IHN Family Determined to Be Home for the Holidays.

IHN is featured on Fox 19 News!

Thank you to New Life Furniture for helping so many of our families!

Check out this news story highlighting one family's success in honor of 20 years of service to homeless families:

Thanks CityBeat Staff for voting IHNGC "Best Interfaithiness" in Best of Cincinnati 2011!

CCM Volunteers

CCM

CCM student visits once/week to tutor the children of IHN. Do you have a talent you can share?

IHNGC opened its doors in October 1991, and will be celebrating 20 years of service in 2011! This year's Annual Meeting and Volunteer Recognition Night will focus on this exciting milestone on Thursday,April 7, 2011 at Isaac Wise Temple.

Fencing Video

2010 Annual Report
2009 Audit

What is Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Cincinnati?

Emergency Shelter

Our Emergency Shelter program currently mobilizes over 1,000 volunteers at 90 congregations. Twenty-seven “host” congregations (two per week) provide shelter sites and meals, and 63 “support” congregations work with the host congregations to provide volunteers, meals and supplies. This combination of a host and its supporting congregations is called a “network.” Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Cincinnati currently runs two networks each week, allowing us to serve up to 8 families a week (32 individuals; two-thirds of whom are children). The guests arrive at the host congregation by bus between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. and have a hot meal with the congregation volunteers, followed by activities (homework, crafts, games, television) and relaxation before bedtime. In the morning after breakfast, families pick up bag lunches and board the Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Cincinnati bus for the Day Center.

Congregations Host Congregations are area churches and synagogues that provide three meals a day, private sleeping space, and volunteers to create a "home away from home" for the families. Support Congregations assist the Host Congregations by providing donated meals and volunteers.
Dinner
Activities
Overnight

See a sample of Host Guidelines.

Contact Georgine Getty (georgine@ihncincinnati.org), Executive Director, about becoming a host congregation.

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Day Center

The Day Center is the families’ “home base” for taking care of personal needs and working with our Shelter Case Manager. Together, they create a case plan to find stable housing and employment. The case plan increases their likelihood of successful housing retention because it includes:

Special attention to children’s health and education through our partnerships with the University of Cincinnati Colleges of Medicine and Nursing and Cincinnati Public Schools’ Project Connect;
Capacity-building classes in budgeting, parenting, and life skills; and
Connections to a variety of social service agencies providing assistance.

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