Adopt-a-Shelter Jenesse Center

The Adopt-A-Shelter Program gives everyone the opportunity to make a significant contribution to our daily operations. With six shelter facilities and two administrative sites, Jenesse has the capacity to serve more than 200 clients at any given time. Your investment in adopting a room or a program can make a considerable difference.

q Adopt – A – Bedroom

When you adopt a bedroom you help underwrite the costs for: furniture, cribs, linens, pillows, and clothing.

q Adopt – A – Bathroom

When you adopt a bathroom you help underwrite the costs for: personal hygiene essentials, toiletries, cleaning supplies, towels, and diapers and wipes for infants.

q Adopt – A – Kitchen/Dining Room

When you adopt a kitchen and dining room you help underwrite the costs for: three meals a day, snacks, infant formula, kitchen appliances, pots and pans, eating utensils, plates, cups, napkins, dining table and chairs, and health and nutrition classes.

q Adopt – A – Living Room

When you adopt a living room you help underwrite the costs for: the 24-hour crisis hotline, community education presentations, law enforcement liaison, hospital liaison, intake services, transportation, a van, taxi vouchers, bus tokens, phone service, utilities, facility improvements, and living room furniture.

q Adopt – A – Family Room

When you adopt a family room you help underwrite the costs for: parenting classes, individual, peer, family counseling sessions, dating violence presentations, health care and advocacy, and household establishment classes.

q Adopt – A – Children’s Playroom

When you adopt the children’s playroom you help underwrite the costs for: art supplies, play pens, toys, supplies for mother-child art classes, childcare, adolescent activities.

q Adopt – A – Library

When you adopt a library underwrite the costs for: vocational education, legal services, school supplies, classroom equipment, textbooks/training manuals, reading/resource library materials, binders/organizers, professional speakers, transportation, restraining orders, court advocacy, computer skills training, computers and software, and family literacy program supplies.

q Adopt – A – Backyard/Recreation Area

When you adopt the backyard/recreation area underwrite the costs for: field trips, transportation to field trips, after school activities, shelter beautification and landscaping, pest control, maintenance and play equipment.

To join the Adopt-A-Shelter Program, simply click the Make A Donation link and specify the room you would like to adopt. Thank You!