Emergency Assistance, Shelter Assistance
Egan staff prepare for start of the season with series of new volunteer orientations EUGENE — Egan Warming Center, a program administered by St. Vincent de Paul Lane County (SVdP), is preparing for its upcoming season with a series of new volunteer orientations. The...
Emergency Assistance, Shelter Assistance
EUGENE — St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County’s (SVdP) congregate tent shelter for unhoused adults, formerly known as Dusk to Dawn, is now again called Dawn to Dawn —reflecting a recent funding increase that allows the shelter to remain open 24 hours a day. Dawn...
Emergency Assistance, Shelter Assistance, Volunteer
Welcome to Eugene If you’ve worked in the nonprofit world in and around Lane County, Oregon for any period, then it is a pretty good bet that you’ve heard the name Sarah Koski. She’s been involved at various levels of human services across the Willamette Valley...
Emergency Assistance, Self-Sufficiency, Shelter Assistance, Uncategorized
Arrival in Oregon “They kicked me out of homelessness,” Michael Williams likes to say when explaining how St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County (SVdP) helped elevate him from chronic homelessness into supported housing. Michael first arrived at SVdP’s Eugene...
Emergency Assistance, Shelter Assistance, Volunteer
On January 12, 2024, a destructive ice storm brought extensive damage and disruption to the Willamette Valley. During that time, the St. Vincent de Paul-administered Egan Warming Centers program activated in response to low temperatures and freezing rains. Three days...
Self-Sufficiency, Shelter Assistance, Supportive Housing
When Kristen Raffin arrived at St. Vincent de Paul’s (SVdP) 410 Garfield Safe Sleep Site in July 2021, she’d already been homeless for more than two years. She returned to her hometown of Eugene, Ore., after nine years in Colorado where she studied and then worked as...
