New Community Project: Pet Hotel at City Care

CONNECTION TO JLOC VISION & MISSION

The Junior League’s new community project with City Care focuses on homelessness and poverty as a community health issue. City Care is dedicated to empowering JLOC volunteers to provide a community health response impacting the Oklahoma City metro community, and JLOC will be at the forefront of change to build a better Oklahoma City. City Care’s Night Shelter was created to be the beacon of light for those who have been turned away everywhere else and need respite. City

Care considers it to be the front door - an opportunity to connect with the most vulnerable and get them into permanent housing solutions as quickly as possible.

PLACEMENT DESCRIPTION

JLOC volunteers will run the Pet Hotel at City Care by checking in and out pet guests at the City Care Night Shelter.

WHAT

Makes This Project Unique

This project will focus on working with animals. JLOC does not currently have a project that works with animals. In this community placement, JLOC volunteers will also have the

opportunity to support the homeless population of Oklahoma City.

This new community project was created in response to feedback from a survey that was led by the READ Committee. The survey indicated that working with the homeless population in Oklahoma City is an area of interest and concern of JLOC Members. The READ Committee noted the interest and worked hard to create a project to meet this need.