Ashley Soukup, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, was back and hosted an online forum. She attended Wake Forest and La Salle. For the first time as a therapist, she is finding herself in the same situation as everyone else. Here are some trends Ashley is seeing in her office over the last 11 weeks. [...]
While our hospital ministry team is unable to be present with patients and staff at this time, DOERS can help provide greatly needed masks for hospital staff who do not work directly with patients. The hospital requires 100% cotton masks. We are looking for volunteers to sew masks as well as donations of the following [...]
Be part of a housewarming shower! The long-awaited opening of the CARITAS Center is scheduled for this summer! St. James’s adopted a 2 bedroom apartment and now it is time to help get all 47 sober living apartments ready to receive new residents. Jennifer Pollard is hosting a shower and would love to have you [...]
Weezie Beckley - Thank you for sending those wonderful pictures. Could you share with me more information about SaveRVARestaurants? Diahann Whittington - Director of Saint James’s Children Center - We were connected through Toby Desch, whose friend Brock Saunders was trying to help local restaurants and families in need at the same time. Nicci Porter is [...]
As mentioned on the May 3 eChimes Here you can find a PDF for you to print and use also available at https://doers.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Letter-Template-Butterfly-.pdf
So many faithful DOERS are asking for ways to help during this pandemic. Many will miss participating in our annual CARITAS shelter host week which was scheduled for April 25- May 2. The good news, however is that CARITAS staff have located a “permanent” location for its women guests (R Street Salvation Army Center) throughout [...]
RVA Needs Masks The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy has recently released a statement announcing the need for face masks in our shelters; #MaskUp Richmond’s most vulnerable! Please see instructions for creating masks and guidelines for tracking and distributing them to our local shelter and agency partners. In addition we continue to ask for [...]
