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Letter from the CEO - "Home Is Where Our Story Begins"
Jeanne Tedrow's Picture

Dear Friends,

Think about where your story begins – did you get up this morning from a nice warm bed, go to the kitchen, pour yourself a nice hot cup of coffee? Did you jump in the shower and get ready for your day with morning breakfast, even if it was on the run?

If you are a homeless child, your story may begin in the shelter, under a bridge or in the family car. If you are a homeless family living at the shelter, you may not always have been there. You may remember better times, when you had a roof that you owned or rented over you. Your walls were covered with familiar pictures. If you are recently homeless through foreclosure, eviction or loss of a job, you may be feeling overwhelmed and distracted. Your children may be looking to you for the answers and you have to make things up as you go along.  

Passage Home has helped so many families find their way home. Passage Home has been the key to ending and preventing homeless in Raleigh and Wake County for more than fifteen years. We have helped over a thousand families secure permanent affordable housing, better employment, and a door of opportunity to unlock.

Our story goes on. In some of the neighborhoods in which we work, many of the houses are vacant or boarded up; people walk the street looking for work and children see lifestyles that are not healthy or productive. But we bring hope, along with after school programs for children, crime prevention and community problem solving, youth and senior services, family programs and social and cultural activities. We help neighbors help each other – we help put the “neighbor” back in neighborhood!

Passage Home helps working homeless families, and those living in dire economic circumstances begin again to shape their story. We help mothers regain custody of their children after being incarcerated; we help fathers find employment so they can care for their families and children; we help neighborhoods become stronger with children’s after school care, and workforce and small business development.  

Passage Home roots out the causes of poverty and homelessness and restores hope to those living on the edge. We offer a hand up not a hand out. We expect that those we help will help themselves and then reach back to help others.  You too can be the key to unlock the door.

Sincerely,
Jeanne Canina Tedrow
Chief Executive Officer/Co-Founder