Community Lodgings of Alexandria, VA

(July 11, 2016) Catherine Read talks with the Executive Director of Community Lodgings, Lynn Thomas. This organization was established in 1987 in the City of Alexandria to provide transitional housing. Today, Community Lodgings’ mission is to lift families from homelessness and instability to independence and self-sufficiency through Transitional Housing, Affordable Housing and Youth Education Programs.

Community Lodgings offers youth education programs that include an after school/summer program in three locations. Cindy Lopez, a Family Support Worker, joins the program in the second segment to talk about how she came through the youth education program herself at the age of 9, joined AmeriCorps and returned to the organization as a staffer. In segment three, Rudy Mendoza, a 7th grader at GW Middle School, talks about the after school program and what he likes best about the program.

There are donor and volunteer opportunities at Community Lodgings and more information can be found at http://www.communitylodgings.org