SOS Community Services

Onions make some people cry. But here the @VictoryAuto2 is all smiles! Thanks for volunteering to unload the food truck at SOS's pantry yesterday.

Join SOS interns for a live reading of Bear in the Air on Monday, March 16 at 1 pm. You can attend in person at the Parkridge Community Center in Ypsilanti and build your own hot air balloon. Or you can join via zoom. Scan the QR code below or visit meet.google.com/ymp-ccem-eex

Thank you Concentrate for highlighting the needs of families struggling to make ends meet in Ypsilanti. Visit soscs.org to learn how you can help! concentratemedia.com/ypsi-nonprofit…

Here are some warm holiday wishes from the contestants in SOS's annual ugly holiday sweater contest. Terri Joanna Grace Nesli Cheryl Unknown restaurant patron who couldn't help joining the fun Loveisa Daphne Ronja

Superstar, Linda Maton, crocheted 300 hats for visitors to SOS's Family Resource Center. Thanks for warming up this bitter cold Monday morning, Linda. :)

Thank you Yeo & Yeo for braving the elements to deliver this generous donation to SOS and learn more about our food pantry, housing, and children's programs.

If you need transportation to shelter or a warming center, SOS's Family Resource Center on River Street in Ypsilanti can help! You must have a fare deal card to access bus tokens at SOS. We can help you apply for a fare deal card from the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority.

CoC funding begins to run out in January, and communities will feel the impact throughout the year unless Congress acts. Read the full letter: bit.ly/3K5VEYs

Without Congressional action, communities will see rising homelessness, strained health systems, and disrupted services. People with disabilities and many others who rely on supportive housing to remain safely housed will face the greatest harm.

SOS is proud to join a large and growing coalition that includes disability rights and aging advocates along with leaders in public health, youth justice, anti-trafficking, and homelessness services who are calling on Congress to fully renew 2026 CoC grants.

Have you used SOS's pantry, children's, or housing programs? We'd love to hear from you! Please email barbarac@soscs.org to register for an in-person meeting at Spark East 215 W. Michigan Ave. in Ypsilanti on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 1 pm.

Thank you to everyone who joined our Town Hall with ED Rhonda Weathers! Missed it? Watch it, youtu.be/fmI1DD7gspY. Want to help? Volunteer or host a food drive by contacting info@soscs.org

Have you used SOS's pantry, children's, or housing programs? We'd love to hear from you! Please email barbarac@soscs.org to register for an in-person meeting at 555 Towner St in Ypsilanti next Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 3 pm.

Get help from volunteer attorneys, legal aid, law students, & deputies at Washtenaw County's Expungement Fair on Saturday! Eligible attendees get a free background check, fingerprinting, screening, & application preparation. Walk-ins welcome, but pre-registration is recommended.

SOS Community Services would like to thank these Road to Home friendship bowl sponsors for their contributions to preventing and ending hunger and homelessness in our community.

SOS Community Services would like to thank these Road to Home family bowl sponsors for their contributions to preventing and ending hunger and homelessness in our community.

Please register for a November 12 virtual town hall with Rhonda Weathers at noon. She will provide an update on the current status of hunger and homelessness in our community and answer questions. Register here: bit.ly/3JzNh74

It's amazing to consider the impact you've had. Thank you!

Thank you, Don & Nancie Loppnow, for sponsoring SOS Road to Home 2025 as family bowl sponsors. We appreciate your longtime support for SOS's mission. Don Loppnow worked to establish the social work program at Eastern Michigan University in the 1980s and 1990s.

He partnered with Chuck Kieffer (SOS's executive director at that time) to create field placements for social work students at SOS. Hundreds of social work students got their professional start working on SOS's crisis line due to this collaboration.