ABOVE: STEP Recovery Center Founder and CEO Wendy Lambert spoke with Neuhoff Media Friday morning, November 3rd; prior to the STEPUP Resource Rally at Second Church of Christ.
For the second straight year, STEP Recovery Center is giving everyone a chance to feel what it’s like to be homeless, as well as raising important awareness about the issue. As STEP Recovery Center Founder and CEO Wendy Lambert explains; the idea began as a crusade for homeless Veterans, as it’s being done on Veterans Day. But it turned into an important effort to educate the public about overall homelessness. Registration to sleep out in boxes Saturday night to Sunday morning begins at the STEP Recovery Center at 5 PM. But Lambert says, please come earlier if you can.
AUDIO: But we like to be having stuff happening a few hours before that. Like live testimonies from people in recovery. The front parking lot will be full of people sleeping in cardboard boxes to raise awareness about homelessness. We started it on Veterans Day for the Veterans, but then it expanded into regular people with homelessness.
Participation is free, but monetary donations to fight homelessness are welcome. Biscuits and gravy will be served for breakfast at 6 AM Sunday morning. Lambert says, they’ll have some donated boxes, but please bring your own if you can. And, during the night, you’ll be able to take breaks if needed.
AUDIO: There will be a drop off place for blankets, coats, scarves, gloves; things like that. The building will be open all night, serving soup and sandwiches. We’ll be open for warm coffee if they want to come in and warm up. The bathrooms will be open. And then at 6 AM we’re serving biscuits and gravy.
The STEP Recovery Center is located at 2500 Georgetown Road.
Wendy Lambert talked further about the 2nd Annual Sleepout for the Homeless with Laura Williams on 1490 WDAN’s Community Connection. To hear that interview, please go to https://vermilioncountyfirst.com/the-community-connection/
