The Key to Home Partnership has launched a volunteer platform to help coordinate volunteer opportunities among its 50-plus partner organizations.
“People want to help solve homelessness in Oklahoma City, but they don’t always know where to start,” Homeless Strategy Implementation Manager Jamie Caves said. “They can now visit our website to find volunteer opportunities across the city.”
Agencies working to address homelessness in Oklahoma City can create volunteer profiles on the platform and receive direct responses from individuals or teams willing to help.
Sisu Youth Services is one agency using the new portal for its low-barrier, emergency overnight shelter and drop-in resource hub for unhoused and at-risk youth. Sisu’s available volunteer opportunities include preparing meals for clients and assisting with its Redbud Classic fundraiser April 5-6.
The volunteer platform was made possible through an in-kind donation from the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Association of Realtors (OKCMAR). OKCMAR and its members support the Key to Home Partnership by caring for people experiencing homelessness and addressing the need for balanced housing.
“OKCMAR members continue to rank homelessness as the local cause most important to us,” OKCMAR board president Vanessa Johnson said. “Helping the many community agencies working to solve homelessness by making it simpler for volunteers to join in will be a huge boost to their efforts.”
For more information and to visit the platform, visit keytohomeokc.org.
About Key to Home Partnership
To address homelessness differently in Oklahoma City, the Key to Home Partnership was launched in April 2023. Key to Home is a public-private partnership of more than 50 agencies, the City of OKC and the private sector, working together with a mission to prevent and end homelessness. The Key to Home Partnership’s action plan is focused on reducing two sub-populations and refining the system to improve capacity and efficiency for everyone.
The four goals for 2023-2025 include:
- Create a new governance system.
- Address homelessness differently by improving infrastructure and capacity.
- Achieve a reduction in Youth Homelessness by rehousing or diverting 100 youth by the end of 2025.
- Achieve a reduction in chronic Unsheltered Homelessness by rehousing 500 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness by the end of 2025.
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