First Presbyterian Church of Hampton –

Special Project of the RHMF

• This is a continuation of the project started at St. Paul’s Episcopal. A dedicated panel vets prospective recipients and distributes money directly to those single mothers in dire need. Funds go to helping single mothers with a variety of basic living challenges, including that among the most important: shelter. Using funds to stay eviction after an abusive spouse leaves is, sadly, not an uncommon theme. All of the money goes directly to those in need.

The Up Center

The Up Center has a broad mission executed through a multitude of targeted programs to help children, families, those in crisis, and persons with disabilities and their families.

• Parents as Teachers (PAT) and Resource Mothers are model programs that help parents during the critical early years of their children’s lives, from conception to kindergarten. Through home visits and group meetings, The Up Center supports parents in promoting school readiness and healthy development of their children.  These programs are especially oriented to helping teen parents.

• Up Center Books is The Up Center’s workforce readiness program and used bookselling business, providing 4 months of transitional employment, workforce readiness training, comprehensive support services, and employment services for hard-to-employ adults.  Up Center Books trainees learn valuable skills that help them compete in the job market.  Employees are primarily, although not exclusively, hard-to-employ men with child support responsibilities.  Child support payments come out of the trainees very first paychecks, immediately accruing to single mothers and the children in their custody.

Children’s Hospital of the King’s

Daughters – Child Abuse Program

• The mission of the CHKD Child Abuse Program is to identify and provide services for child victims of abuse and neglect in a safe, culturally competent, supportive environment while reducing secondary trauma.  The program offers an integrated response to child abuse through case coordination with a multidisciplinary team of community professionals. All services are based on the highest professional standards and best practices shown to reduce trauma and generate positive outcomes.  Research has shown that the techniques used in programs like the CHKD’s Child Abuse Program lead directly to a break in the cycle of violence by dramatically reducing the propagation of abuse in future generations.

For more information on CHKD’s Child Abuse Program, click here:  The Child Abuse Program

Syrian American Medical Society

2023 Earthquake Relief

• Heartbreaking images and the story of this terrible tragedy would have moved Rachel as it move us all. The RHMF’s donation to the Syrian American Medical Society Foundation was targeted to women and children, but really, wherever needed most. During such crises, women and children are often disproportionately affected.

For more information on the SAMS Foundation’s efforts during this crisis, click here: February 6th Earthquake

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – Crisis

Compassion Fund: Single Mothers

• A Fund run by the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Newport News designed to assist those, mostly single mothers, who are but one narrow step away from eviction or some other calamity.  Please see my article by clicking here.