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PVIS Student Council Organizes Item Collection
Representatives from Good Samaritan Services look forward to one of its main fundraisers, which will help address homelessness in Lancaster and Chester counties.
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R083199 since June 1999. By 2002, GSS purchased its first property in Phoenixville, where it was able to provide five people at a time with emergency housing. Currently, GSS owns 14 properties, totaling 100 beds and over 30,000 square feet. GSS came to the Lancaster County area in 2011 when it opened an emergency shelter in Ephrata, which provides housing for women and children.
GSS provides a full continuum of care to individuals and families that are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. Some of the services offered by GSS include eviction prevention, case management services, emergency shelter, transitional housing, affordable housing, and permanent housing services across Lancaster and Chester counties. The organization’s end goal is to empower people to feel confident and capable enough to maintain their own safe and stable housing.
Since July 1, 2021, GSS has served 475 people, and more than 200 individuals have graduated from the organization’s programs and are in stable housing.
Starting this year, GSS will offer its clients in-house counseling, and it will expand the women’s shelter in Ephrata. The organization also opened a men’s shelter in Ephrata on April 1.
Ninety-seven percent of GSS’ funding comes from community donations and fundraisers such as the annual Engle Printing & Publishing Co., Inc. (EPC) Golf Outing. The 15th annual EPC Golf Outing will take place on Friday, June 10, at Crossgates Golf Club, 1 Crossland Pass, Millersville, with tee times at 7 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Meals, beverages, and snacks will be provided, and participants will have chances to win prizes throughout the golf course. One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to GSS.
“Anytime anyone in the community is participating whether that’s through monthly donorship or coming to our events - they’re really making a difference right here in their own community,” said Mandy Johnson, director of community engagement at GSS. “We’re so grateful because without the support, we literally couldn’t do the work we’re doing.”
Preregistration is required and can be completed up to 48 hours before the event. For more information about the EPC Golf Outing, to register to play, or to sponsor the event, visit www.epcgolfouting.com. To learn about the services GSS offers in Lancaster and Chester counties, visit www.goodsamservices.org.
PVIS Student Council Organizes Item Collection
Pequea Valley Intermediate School (PVIS) Student Council members (from left) Addy Pacella, Megan Wenger and Sabrina Swann display food and supplies collected for the Humane League of Lancaster County. Students collected items for two weeks and donated them on March 31.
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