REYNOLDS HOUSE NON-PROFIT CORPORATION
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Mission Statement
Reynolds Home is a homeless shelter for women and children located on the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. Started in 1990, this Home has welcomed more than 600 women and 1600 children, sheltering them from abusive family situations, violence, or other crises which have forced them out of their own homes. These services are offered to homeless women and their children in beautiful surroundings worthy of children who need a temporary stay. They insure a strong support system forged in a family-like atmosphere where residents live, work and help each other to develop resources and skills to maintain permanent independent living arrangements and better quality care of their children. Staff commit themselves to assist each mother individually to discover her particular needs and capabilities and to connect her to all available resources in the community. They maintain a long term commitment with each family should they need occasional or continued assistance after they leave Reynolds Home.
About This Cause
Organizational information: Reynolds Home is a private non-profit shelter located in El Paso, TX. A two-story farmhouse, built in 1926 and owned by Dr. and Mrs. William Reynolds, was inherited by their daughter, Virginia Tullius in 1990. She and her husband, Raymond, and twelve children were already accustomed to making room and welcoming into their own home families in crisis. So began Reynolds Home as a shelter for children and their mothers in crisis. Members of the Reynolds-Tullius Family have continued to invest themselves since then, creating many opportunities and options for homeless persons, which has formed the backbone all current efforts to prevent and relieve homelessness in the city. In 2015, Reynolds Home celebrated its 25th anniversary with facilities able to house up to 20 women and 60 children. Mission: The mission of the Home is to provide shelter, security and basic services for children and their mothers that teach and encourage them to cherish and respect their own dignity and to build on their own strengths which enables them to provide independently for themselves and their children. Staff commit themselves to assist each mother and child individually to discover their particular needs and capabilities and to connect them to all available resources in the community. They maintain a long term commitment with each family should they need occasional or continued assistance after they leave Reynolds Home. Programs: Weekly meetings with each mother provide fertile ground for discovering a woman’s particular needs and capabilities and the specials needs of children who are often moving through a traumatic experience and struggling to adapt to being without a home, starting at a new school, making new friends, discovering themselves. The team helps the resident work out a specific self-sufficiency plan based on specific goals and objectives for herself and her children and plans a weekly calendar of activities to achieve the objectives step-by-step. Families reside at the shelter for a period ranging from one month to two years and are assessed upon acceptance for educational needs, physical and mental health needs, as well as the women’s work capabilities. They are directed towards school programs, job counselors, life-skills classes, health programs, daycare, immigration services and other resources in the community that are available to them. When she leaves Reynolds, the Beyond Shelters program provides each mother with follow-up on accomplishing new goals she sets for herself, such as education, training in new job skills, the balancing act of being a fulltime mother and having a fulltime job, handling finances and discovering new opportunities for her children’s growth. Material assistance is available to cope with emergency situations as well as counseling and other means of personal support. Population Served: Women and their children who are experiencing a crisis situation make up the current resident population at Reynolds Home. Families are referred by friends, schools, hospitals, police or other family shelters in the city. The women are primarily in their late teens to late thirties, occasionally older; the children’s ages span from newborns to teens. Teen moms, either pregnant or with babies, were welcomed while they continue their studies at their respective high schools or GED programs. Promises Made, Promises Kept: Homeless kids on the street break your heart. Without a home, without a bed, without protection, without a smile….their hearts are broken too. Reynolds Home wants to give them back their hearts. Kids are the absolute reason why Reynolds Home exists: making kids safe, helping moms to know how to keep them safe and make a family wherever they go. This is how we remake hearts, theirs and ours. Our programs for children include an intensive day-by-day follow up of school attendance, identifying health or developmental concerns and assuring the appropriate referrals for treatment and/or preventive measures, accessing free daycare where there is supervision for babies and toddlers, a five-day-a week after- school program which includes tutorial aid and therapeutic play on the home’s spacious grounds and play yard. Numerous volunteer groups provide educational and play options for the children at Reynolds Home throughout the year, especially birthday parties at Home or holiday celebrations elsewhere. School-age children participate in a ten-week Summer Camp Program which features daylong activities at a recreation center as well as field trips, crafts and outdoor sports. Withal, happy, growing children make it possible for mothers to be about recreating their lives as independent women working to provide the basic necessities of a life enriched by stability and a renewed focus on family-centered concerns which promise positive outcomes for mothers and children. The residential program involves three areas of priority: economic growth, family cohesiveness and health. We work at getting different types of income to families, help them with better conflict resolution and facilitate capacity to build their own safety nets through an increased awareness of economic and/or psychological vulnerabilities. We help them to develop creative approaches to managing risks. Our goal at the Reynolds Home is that each family that comes to our shelter will leave to something better. More than 90 percent of the families that move into Reynolds Home leave with steady income to their own apartment. Where homeless families frequently bounce from shelter to shelter, we are proud of the many families that keep in touch with us year after year who have learned to live independently and have been able to provide for themselves and their children.