A nonprofit organization with roots in the Triad dating back more than three decades is now offering assistance from a new Support Services Center located in downtown Kernersville.
Room at the Inn held an open house on Thursday to introduce the community to its new local services. Scope News spoke to President and CEO O. Albert Hodges about the organization’s mission and the role Kernersville plays in pursuing it.
“Since we started during Advent of 1993 at St. Benedict’s Church in Greensboro, we have provided comprehensive services to hundreds of mothers and their children,” he said.
In addition to Forsyth and Guilford, Hodges said Room at the Inn has assisted pregnant women and mothers living in poverty across most of the state’s 100 counties.
As for the impetus for the new facility at 210 North Main Street Suite 168, he began the organization’s long-standing realization “that each woman is unique and her challenges are different.”
Nevertheless, Hodges said that women transitioning “to new lives of healthy, hope-filled independence” generally need four “pillars of service”: housing, job training, childcare, and transportation.
“Our newest project … will house our job training, counseling, and life skills program,” he said. “Our staff and volunteers will begin offering programs in January regarding work ethics, job readiness, and some job training offerings related to phlebotomy, CNA, and customer service. We are especially excited to be partnering with High Point University’s LIFT Fellowship, who will provide comprehensive services related to professionalism, job seeking, and leadership to our mothers.”
Explaining why the organization determined that Kernersville would be the “ideal location” for its new Support Services Center, Hodges noted the town’s central Triad location and a local history of community outreach.
“We have had hundreds of volunteers from the churches in Kernersville over the years who are anxious to get more personally involved,” he added. “The Support Services Center will also serve as our volunteer center and give people of faith and good will the opportunity to make the mercy of Jesus real and present to some of the most vulnerable of our community: single, pregnant women and single mothers with children experiencing homelessness or poverty.”
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