THE NEED
300
School-aged children are homeless in Baldwin County
3200
Individual are in housing crisis in Mobile and Baldwin Counties
18%
Of Dumas Wesley's current residents are from Baldwin County
THE PLAN
Baldwin Family Village will be a first of its kind in Baldwin County, Alabama.
The 13-unit facility will provide transitional housing and support services for women and children experiencing homelessness. The Baldwin Family Village will operate as a program of the Dumas Wesley Community Center and is slated to open in April, 2023.
The Dumas Wesley Community Center has been operating the Sybil Smith Family Village transitional housing program in Mobile since 1999. The Sybil Smith Family Village boasts an 88% success rate among residents moving into permanent housing. This statistic is 17% higher than the national average, according to HUD. Dumas Wesley will replicate the Sybil Smith Family Village model at the Baldwin Family Village, which is expected to house approximately 100 homeless women children annually.
At a time when so many lives are fractured, isolated and fearful--when bones feel dry and separated from the joy of home--imagine what it would mean for us to offer ourselves as a prayerful, hopeful refuge, to rise up with courage, as visible agents of lasting change!
THE ORGANIZATION
The Baldwin Family Village Foundation, a 501(c)3, is the fundraising arm of Baldwin Family Village (BFV), a newly established transitional housing program for homeless women and children in Baldwin County. Via BFV’s 6-12-month program, the first of its kind in Baldwin County, it is estimated that 100 women and children will be served annually.
Board of directors
Darren McClellan, Senior Pastor, Fairhope United Methodist Church
Kate Carver, Executive Director, Dumas Wesley Community Center
Class of 2023
Anne Meyercord
Jennifer Myrick
Barker Stein
Class of 2024
Sandy Folan
Jim Gates
Mark Mathias
Class of 2025
Elizabeth Hammock
Steve Pearson
Becky Tate