September brings "Shoetember" shoe donation drive for homeless youth

September brings "Shoetember" shoe donation drive for homeless youth

Following the success of our new “Braugust” bra donation drive, piggybacking off the now well established annual “Socktoberfest” sock donation drive, Looking Glass is hoping for similar success with “Shoetember” to hopefully procure gently used or new shoe donations for our homeless youth programs during the month of September.

“For unhoused youth in Lane County shoes are one of the most important safety items they can own, especially going into the rainy fall and winter months,” explained Homeless Youth Services Director Morgan Boozer.

Braugust Bra and Female Undergarment Drive Hopes to Follow Socktoberfest Success

Braugust Bra and Female Undergarment Drive Hopes to Follow Socktoberfest Success

After 5 incredibly successful years of experience with an October-long sock donation drive promotion (Socktoberfest), Looking Glass is hoping to yield similar results with a focused Bra and female-identified undergarment donation drive during the month of August - or “Braugust.” While gently used bra’s will certainly be accepted, the hope is new items will be purchased via an Amazon wish list or dropped off at the Looking Glass admin office (1790 West 11th Ave, 2nd floor, Eugene) before August 31st. Only new underwear will be accepted. And socks are always needed as well (not just in October).

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Looking Glass New Roads Kitchen Remodel is Underway

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Looking Glass New Roads Kitchen Remodel is Underway

Looking Glass New Roads Kitchen Remodel is underway and we need YOUR help with temporary outdoor kitchen services. Beginning in May the New Roads day program for homeless youth services will begin construction on the current kitchen to enable cooking of full meals. To-date, the New Roads staff have been without adequate ventilation and equipment to provide a full kitchen and thus meals have been quite challenging to provide 3 times per day to homeless youth.

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Trillium Helps Create New Resource Pantry at Looking Glass Counseling Program

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Trillium Helps Create New Resource Pantry at Looking Glass Counseling Program

Thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Trillium Community Benefit Initiative, the main Counseling office for Looking Glass therapy services now offers a resource pantry for active therapy clients and families. The pantry includes basic food items (perishable and non-perishable), hygiene items, clothing and some toys. Since opening the pantry in February, more than 200 families of counseling clients have utilized the pantry.

“Clients having access to basic needs (food, clothing, toiletries) not only supports those clients, families, and the community with their needs getting met, but allows them to have a greater sense of safety in their everyday lives,” said Jaime Ellsworth, Looking Glass Intensive Outpatient Support Services (IOSS) Clinical Supervisor.

New Roads Homeless Youth - In Need of Male-Identified Clothing Donations!

New Roads Homeless Youth - In Need of Male-Identified Clothing Donations!

New Roads homeless youth drop-in center (off 7th and Blair Blvd) has a clothing closet for youth clients ages 16 to 21. At this time, the shelves containing clothing for male-identifying youth are quite bare. Looking Glass is seeking donations of clothing in a variety of sizes including pants, shirts, shorts, socks as well as shoes of various sizes.

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4th Annual Socktoberfest Sock Drive Generates Thousands of Socks for Homeless Youth

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4th Annual Socktoberfest Sock Drive Generates Thousands of Socks for Homeless Youth

The 4th annual Socktoberfest sock donation drive resulted in thousands of pairs of donated socks for New Roads homeless youth program. The October-long donation drive included donation locations at all Lane County area Bi-Marts, local Windermere offices, Macy’s at Valley River Center, Heritage Bank NW, all PeaceHealth hospital locations locally and also a special drive done by the UO Softball team.

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Housing Resources - Success Story (VIDEO)

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Housing Resources - Success Story (VIDEO)

Looking Glass has provided housing assistance for youth since 1970 through various programs including providing rental assistance funds for security deposits, renters insurance and, in some cases, covering monthly rent for up to 2 years. We recently sat down with a current housing client, Jordan, and his case manager Jack and other Looking Glass staff to hear how these programs work and the impact they can have. (VIDEO)

Looking Glass Selected as Beneficiary at 2021 Market Fest - Volunteers Needed!

Looking Glass Selected as Beneficiary at 2021 Market Fest - Volunteers Needed!

Looking Glass has been selected as this year’s exclusive nonprofit beneficiary for the 2021 Market Fest event held September 10-12 along the streets and shops nearby 5th Street Market.

“This is quite an honor,” explained Looking Glass Director of Marketing & Development, Tyler Mack. “To be selected among so many worthy nonprofits in the area is humbling. We look forward to the great exposure our organization will receive and the funding of course as well.”

Rural Program Hopes to Expand

Rural Program Hopes to Expand

The Looking Glass Rural Program, with current 500 square foot facility in Cottage Grove, hopes to expand services and capacity by nearly 400% when it moves into a new building down the street which is just under 2,000 square feet and has much higher visibility from the road as well.

Purchased in 2019, the new facility is in need of major renovations before staff can move in and serve clients.

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Socktoberfest Sock Drive Yields Amazing Results Again

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Socktoberfest Sock Drive Yields Amazing Results Again

The 2nd annual Looking Glass Socktoberfest sock donation drive was another huge success thanks to amazing local business partners and their store customers as well as generous Amazon wish list buyers who shipped packages of new socks to our admin office. We received thousands of new and gently used socks for our New Roads homeless youth drop-in center!

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Socktoberfest Drive Secures 7,000+ Socks For Youth

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Socktoberfest Drive Secures 7,000+ Socks For Youth

On a chilly fall Eugene day in early October, New Roads Runaway & Homeless Youth Services Manager James Ewell posed for a photo opp taken by a Register-Guard reporter showing a sad and mostly empty bin of socks at the New Roads clothing closet which showed the current supply of socks offered to youth being at about 10 or so pairs. By the end of “Socktoberfest” the first ever month-long coordinated sock donation drive for Looking Glass, the challenge became finding storage for all the newly received socks - more than 7,000 pairs of socks were donated and they’re still coming in.

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