EMERGENCY SHELTER OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC

ESNKY is looking for an outgoing, organized and energetic person to coordinator volunteers. Basic duties will include recruitment, screening, training, scheduling and monitoring volunteers (individual and groups). Administrative duties will include tracking volunteer hours, writing job descriptions, soliciting volunteer feedback and working with shelter leadership to determine the shelter’s volunteer needs. Forward–facing duties will include responding to volunteer inquiries (email and in-person), meeting and orienting volunteers to shelter, greeting volunteers when they arrive for shifts or deliver meals, helping direct the work of volunteer groups and managing annual award program. Interested candidates should submit a current resume reflecting educational and work experience to Ruslyn Case-Compton, Office Manager at ruslyn.case-compton@esnky.net. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gDHx-Zq2

The Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky (ESNKY) is excited to announce our annual fundraiser, Homeless to Hopeful, on Thursday, March 21, 2024 from 6pm-8pm. 🔗 bit.ly/H2H2024Tix Join leaders and changemakers from across the region that support ESNKY in hearing from those directly impacted by our work and celebrating our Fifteenth anniversary. This year’s Homeless to Hopeful will include a full buffet dinner, silent and live auctions, and our signature March Madness Bourbon Trail auction. Purchasing a ticket is an investment in your neighbors. As a privately funded organization, your support stays local, assisting adults experiencing housing insecurity our community. From July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023, ESNKY served 1,470 guests across all our programs. 1,004 guests stayed in our low-barrier, harm-reduction emergency shelter, which provided 17,843 nights of safety and sleep. 67% of these guests stayed with us 14 nights or less, roughly a paycheck, to get back on their feet. It’s crystal clear – your support makes a difference in the lives of your neighbors experiencing homelessness.

The Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky is OPEN this Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. This includes our Daytime Services including FREE hot showers and self-service laundry, warming supply distribution, overnight sheltering for 68 adults, daytime warming center, and more. Friends, it's SIX (6!) DEGREES OUTSIDE, and we will remain open all day and night - that's Life Saving, Life Changing. THANK YOU to our INCREDIBLE community for stepping up. We are grateful for the individual/hand warmers and mylar blankets. The best way to help ESNKY this MLK day is to make a donation: https://lnkd.in/gECNk8df

It's Shelter #Magic Monday! Thanks to Intrust IT for cooking and serving a delicious meal last week for our guests. We need your company, church, family or organization to sign up to cook a meal for guests in shelter - can you lend a hand? Sign up here: bit.ly/ESNKYMeals23-24

Winter Shelter is Open It’s official! For the fifteenth year in a row, ESNKY has opened our community’s only low-barrier cold shelter. We need your help! Everyone deserves a bed to sleep in. You can help make that vision a reality. Choose one or more ways to get involved below.  https://lnkd.in/dATkY2wF Make a Donation Highly needed Your gift of $45 allows ESNKY to shelter one guest for one night of being inside, a bed to sleep in & basic necessities. https://lnkd.in/d9vgQGSM Become a Meal Donor Highly needed Your family, company, church, or group can cook and serve onsite a meal for 70 in our commercial kitchen. https://lnkd.in/dRBsMCvN Shop our Wish List Always needed Check out our most urgent needs that support our Life Saving, Life Changing services. https://lnkd.in/d_sBDyyr Winter Coat Drive Needed this season Help ESNKY sustain our supply of warm (adult) coats all the way through March. Learn more about donation drop-off here: https://lnkd.in/dswtuMzp

🏠 Today's the Day! We're excited to welcome you to the Winter Shelter Open House, tonight from 4:30-6:30pm! 🔗 Still need to register? Click here: https://lnkd.in/gMiYvHuJ 🚗 Please see parking directions attached and plan ahead! You'll have the chance to meet with our guests and members of our staff to take a look inside our community's only low-barrier, harm reduction shelter for adults experiencing homelessness. Importantly, our work with our guests will continue while the Open House occurs. We embrace the hustle and bustle of shelter life, and hope that you will find interacting with our guests and volunteers meaningful. We can't wait to see you!

Happy #Shelter #Magic #Monday In the past month, students from several local schools have helped ESNKY with our mission to provide Life Saving, Life Changing shelter and services to adults in our community experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. It's always a joy to work with the next generation of volunteers, leaders, and change-makers right here in Northern Kentucky. ⭐ Students from St. Mary School proceeds from their first out-of-uniform "Duds Day" collection to the Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky in honor of World Homelessness Day on October 10th. Their school year theme is “I Am Who I Am,” and this month’s theme was “I am hopeful.” 🦸 Students from Newport Central Catholic High School held a donation drive for cereal, coffee, and other essentials and invited our team to speak to their student body on "Superhero" out-of-uniform day. 🎒 Students from Sts Peter Paul Parish joined ESNKY for a tour of our 68-bed facility and are packing donation bags for our guests. ⚽ The Thomas More Saints Women's Soccer Team volunteered for #SaintsServe cleaning and organizing our bedrooms and donation room, and then took that team spirit to win on the road after leaving shelter! ❄️ As the weather gets colder, we hope your school will help the guests of ESNKY through a donation drive, out-of-uniform day, or volunteering. Email Britt.Schroeder@esnky.net to learn more and get involved.

ESNKY’s Executive Director Kim Webb will speak at Kentucky’s first Opioid Symposium today (Tuesday, October 11) about Opioid Use Disorder, Homelessness and Mental Health. She will highlight ESNKY’s innovative and proven approach to emergency sheltering and the services that ESNKY provides to adults experiencing homelessness. Kim will also speak on the questions, "Who is experiencing homelessness, and why?" and "Ultimately, what ends homelessness?" at Insight 30: A GCMLA event on Wednesday, October 12. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eF-m-pQy https://lnkd.in/d789fibZ

We are honored to be one of the organizations that received funding from the Office of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission (KYOAAC) to help further our mission by helping the most vulnerable adults in our community. We are thankful to General Cameron (pictured here), KYOAAC Executive Director Bryan Hubbard (pictured here), and the entire KYOAAC for recognizing our innovative and proven approach and look forward to working with other organizations, policy makers, service providers and community leaders to fight the opioid crisis. Congratulations to all of the organizations and initiatives that received funding! Read more: https://lnkd.in/gcDmyMhG

Northern Kentucky was designated a Recovery Ready Community recently by Governor Andy Beshear. We are pleased to be a part of this community and excited that our emergency shelter services were highlighted as innovative and one of the key reasons for designation. We look forward to working collaboratively with our community to providing support for those in NKY who are facing addiction. Thank you to the Recovery Ready Communities Advisory Council for recognizing our role!