Tulsa Cornerstone Assistance Network

PROJECT PURPOSE

Providing meals to 100+ homeless men, women and children each week who have been disproportionately dislocated due to Covid social distancing in the shelters and the growth in the number of people becoming homeless due to Covid., and also providing daily meals to the children and teens in North Tulsa whose families have been disproportionally affected by Covid because their parents are more likely to be in restaurant and other service jobs that have been affected by Covid at a greater rate than some other professions.

EVIDENCE

We save all of the basic intake forms, all the meal count forms, grocery distribution counts, and attendance forms.

POPULATION DESCRIPTION

We focus on two populations: 1) the homeless who have been dislocated from the shelters due to social distancing (some shelters dropping from 300 to 75 individuals) and/or who have become newly homeless because of the pandemic, and 2) the children and their families from North Tulsa who live in 9 low-income apartment complexes. The homeless have hugely been disproportionately impacted because they have been pushed outside of the shelters and have been forced to live in the streets due to social distancing. Food and safety have become huge issues. Also the children of North Tulsa and their families have been disproportionately impacted because their emergency savings per household was much less than those in more affluent areas, thus not having as much to fall back on during this pandemic crisis. Low income families also are employees of the harder hit food service companies than are individuals from higher income homes.

PERFORMANCE MEASURING

We will measure project performance by collecting data through basic intake forms of each person served, counting and recording every hot meal served, and recording every bag of grocery served. We will have demographic and geographic information on each person served.

ONGOING INVESTMENT AMOUNT

$

ONGOING INVESTMENT DESCRIPTION

None

ONGOING INVESTMENT REQUIRED

Able to continue operation without additional funding from the State of Oklahoma