Recent Events

With thanks and appreciation to Rescue Community Church and their membership for preparing and serving the meal for the Christmas party for our residents! And to Gemma's Angels who always find a way to have Santa Claus take time out of his busy schedule, and share gifts with our kids!

Purchase a Cards For a Cause Box of Greeting cards. We have four different variety boxes to choose from. $30 for 30 quality cards and envelopes. 40% of each box purchased will go directly to Shalom House! View the Cards Here.

Or make a monetary donation to purchase cards to be donated to Shalom House or given directly to Shalom House using this link.

To purchase a card box or if you have any questions, please contact 570-614-6148 or email at [email protected].

In addition, if you are interested in purchasing a book(s) for your family or to donate this Holiday Season, please use this website

On December 6, 2016, Zonta held its Zonta Says No Rally in the Capitol. This event focused on the need to put an end to domestic violence. Speakers included Representative Sheryl Delozier, PA Congressional District 88, Representative Patty Kim, PA Congressional District 103, and Keynote Speaker, Diane Sadler, Mother of Trisher Sadler who was brutally killed in 2011. Harrisburg-Hershey Club President, Nancy Fodor, commented on the work that is being done by many agencies and advocates in our area to include Shalom House, the YWCA, Carlisle Area Domestic Violence Services and others.

A Christmas Wreath gift from the Harrisburg-Hershey Zonta Club, our partners, our friends!

Please join us for An Evening of Thanks, a concert benefiting several organizations including Shalom House, on Sunday, December 11 at the Swatara Church of God.

For more information, click on the link below.

The Zonta Club of Harrisburg-Hershey cordially invites you to save Tuesday, December 6, 2016, to celebrate the �16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence Campaign� at a �Zonta says �No� Rally�at 12 noon at the State Capitol Main Rotunda.

For more information, click on the link below.

Crafters from the mid-state have spent the last year creating holiday wreaths in preparation for the Seventh Annual Shalom House �Wreaths for a Reason.� The wreaths will be prominently displayed at Strawberry Square through the generous support of Harristown Development Corporation. Visitors place in a silent auction or purchase their wreath at a �buy-it-now� price.

The 2016 auction and sale will be held on November 15, 16 and 17. For more information, click on the link below.

The Emerging Philanthropist Program (EPP), a partnership between The Foundation for Enhancing Communities and Harrisburg Young Professionals, awarded Shalom House a $5,000 grant for their Partnership for Independence and Positive Mental Health. Shalom House was selected by the 2016 EPP class after an extensive process, which included identifying an area that was of the most need in the local Harrisburg community. The EPP class decided that the recipient nonprofit organization must serve Harrisburg city with programs that provide education and/or reintegration services for diverse populations with behavioral health and addiction needs.

Shalom House's Partnership for Independence and Positive Mental Health is a partnership with Elizabethtown College�s Occupational Therapy program aimed at addressing the root causes of homelessness, which often includes mental health issues. Occupational Therapists are equipped with a coping skills toolbox that provides them with a variety of techniques to help women address mental and behavioral issues that are a barrier to personal growth and success. These tools are designed to help residents with issues of self-control, negative thoughts and attitudes, and inappropriate responses rooted in emotion and trauma issues.

For more information about the EPP program, Shalom House and the Partnership for Independence and Positive Mental Health, please click on the link below.

With sincere thanks and appreciation to Joan Knight and the team from Exelon Corp for selecting Shalom House for their charitable outreach for their conference event this month (September 2016). Due to their generosity and obvious heart for serving the needs of women and children, over $800 were raised in cash and gift contributions, with more in-kind donations added! Pictured with Shalom House Executive Director, Denise Britton, are the conference attendees who made these generous contributions possible.

United Way Kick Off Event with Gannett Fleming - a company whose support over the years has been and continues to be very much appreciated!

THANKS TO THE UNITED WAY, DAY OF CARING VOLUNTEERS WHO DID A THOROUGH FALL CLEANING AT OUR SHELTER!

In appreciation to Altria Company Employee Community Fund - and the many employees who generously give in support of community needs throughout the State of Pennsyvlania! Thank you for your partnership to the mission of Shalom House.

Our thanks to Karen Fritchman for coordinating Cards for a Cause and a Book Drive for the children who are residents are Shalom House. Karen and her handsome associate Jameson delivered donations to the shelter on August 15, 2016. Additional opportunities to get involved with these initiatives are planned for mid-October.

With the help of Shalom House Staff, Board and volunteers (to include a number of shelter residents), the 2016 Community Festival was a huge success. Over 1300 persons were again served during the cookout portion of the event, and many men, women and children enjoyed a day filled with music, activities as well as food and refreshments -- with the finale including an Allison Hill Youth Group (girls) doing a dance recital and then over 200 backpacks filled with school supplies distributed to children in need in our neighborhood. THANKS TO EVERYONE to helped make the day successful, including the Colonial Park Rotary Club and the Harrisburg-Hershey Zonta Club.

The Junior League of Harrisburg is asking for your support to help raise funds to create Birthday Boxes and to enable Shalom House to provide basic supplies for the women and children who walk through their doors. Your contribution will help to empower these women and children and put a smile on their faces.

The drive will take place June 5-June 30 . You can show your support in a number of ways:

Purchase a book(s) for the children in your life and you'll also be contributing to a book being given to a child in need. Free books will be earned based on total party sales and ALL free books will be donated to Shalom House. If interested in purchasing a book(s) for your family or to donate, please use this website.

Purchase a Cards For a Cause Box of Greeting cards. We have four different variety boxes to choose from. $30 for 30 quality cards and envelopes. 40% of each box purchased will go directly to Shalom House! View the Cards here.

Make a monetary donation. This will be used to purchase books to donate to the Birthday Book Boxes. Please Visit RSVP as Going on the Junior League of Harrisburg's event page for more information.

In Downtown Harrisburg, Memorial Day Weekend 2016 is going to be an epic celebration of community and positive change. Join local non-profits, businesses, artists, entertainers and local heroes for two days of super fun, food and festivities. Honor and celebrate those making a difference in our community. For more information and a list of events, click on this link.

Our sincere thanks to the mission team from Cleveland, Ohio that helped plant flowers at the garden located at 13th & Market Streets. This project was part of the plan for long-term urban gardening in the Allison Hill community and throughout the city. The plan supports opportunities to teach entrepreneurialism, nutrition, resource management and healthy lifestyles -- all of which serve the mission of Shalom House and those that benefit from our housing programs.

As the day concluded and the students and chaperones headed back to the shelter area, they were stopped by a local businesswoman who was so touched by their efforts, she gave each student a dollar bill -- the total of which was then donated to Shalom House in support of its programs and services.

Can't join us on June 9? Purchase a voucher good for any regular season Senators game. Just contact any board member or Shalom House (717-920-4906) to order your vouchers. Remember, for every $11 ticket sold, Shalom House will receive $4.

April 25-29, 2016 is the Junior League of Harrisburg�s first annual Little Black Dress Initiative. Launched in February 2014 by the Junior League of London, the Little Black Dress Initiative (LBDI) is a week-long, social media driven fundraising campaign that uses the iconic LBD to raise awareness about poverty and its effects on women in society. The Junior League of Harrisburg is among some of the first Leagues to bring the project stateside. Participants wear one LBD for five, consecutive days and are encouraged to harness the power of their social media platforms to drive online donations, which are collected through a charitable fundraising site (Click and Pledge). The funds raised make possible the work and mission of the Junior League: promoting voluntary service, developing the potential of women and improving the community.

Our own Executive Director Denise Britton is the honorary Chair of this great event. Funds raised will support their work in helping to serve women, assisting with reaching their level of potential and empowerment. To accomplish that objective, the Junior League partners with agencies, like Shalom House -- and for us, that they are moving towards training up their membership and volunteers to assist with mentoring support for at-risk women, translates into a further expansion of our efforts through partnership and collaboration.

To find out more about the the Little Black Dress Initiative, donate, or get involved, please click on this link .

Congratuations to our Volunteer of the Year - Leila Brown. Leila has served Shalom House consistently for the last several years, speaking hope and encouragement to the guests of Shalom House -- focusing on personal value and empowerment. Our thanks and appreciation to Leila (and to Joye Mann, pictured) for being present to accept the award!

Saturday, May 21 is only 5 weeks away! Now is the time to register for the 2016 Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community at the HACC Harrisburg Campus. Please click on this registration link to log on and register to walk or donate.

Join us and make a difference one step at a time. All money raised through the Shalom House site will go directly to Shalom House.

As an extra incentive, anyone raising $50 or more for Shalom House from April 25th through Sunday May 1st will be entered to win a $50 Walmart gift card. We are currently 38% toward our goal and have raised just under $2500. Let's push to get to 50% by May 1!

Come join the Shalom House team on Saturday, May 21 at 2016 Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community at the HACC Harrisburg Campus. Please click on this registration link to log on and register to walk or donate.

Join us and make a difference one step at a time. All money raised through the Shalom House site will go directly to Shalom House.

Shalom House extends its thanks and appreciation to Secure Wire Technologies and the Colonial Park Rotary Club for their collective efforts to help Shalom House expand its security system and offer a more secure location to house women and children (in our community) experiencing homelessness.

In January, a team of compassionate agents from Erie Insurance, including team leader Doug Fitzgerald, came to to the Shalom House emergency shelter to do some much needed painting in the row home in the Allison Hill Community. Their work wasn�t finished when the last brush was put away. The group went back to their Mechanicsburg offices and challenged themselves to gather needed items to serve women and children in shelter and provide a $3,000 cash contribution in support of the mission.

Students getting involved with taking back our streets -- our community -- supported by Mayor Papenfuse, Police Chief Carter and Shalom House Staff member, Dereasha Banks (who lost her son tragically to violence just after Thanksgiving, 2015).

Power of Partnership continues into 2016! Our THANKS AND APPRECIATION to the Home Builders Association of Metro Harrisburg for their generosity and support, with monetary gifts and in-kind donations that continue to help provide HOMES for many in need in our community -- not only with tools and supplies, but through the hearts of giving.

Come join us at the Krevsky Production Center for Shalom House's Annual Theater Event on Saturday, February 27.

This year's show is Autumn Velocity: Alexandra, a 79-year-old artist in a show down with family over where she�ll spend her remaining years. In Alexandra�s corner are her wit, her volcanic passion and the fact that she�s barricaded herself in her Brooklyn brownstone with enough Molotov cocktails to take out the block. But her children have their own secret weapon: estranged son Chris who returns after 20 years, crawls through Alexandra�s second floor window and becomes the family�s unlikely mediator. No sooner are the words �Hi, Mom� uttered than the emotional bombs start detonating.