Welcome to the Mississippi Case Management Consortium’s Adopt-A-Family website.  The goal of this site is to inform the public about families who still need assistance post-Katrina to return to their homes. Use the menu links to find a family you’d like to sponsor today!

The MCMC project has time-limited resources – we need your help to get families back into safe, sustainable housing.  Whether you can sponsor a family at $100, $500, or even $1000, every dollar counts.  Contributions to MCMC Partner organizations to sponsor families are fully tax deductible.  Consult your tax professional for details.

The mission of the MCMC is to deliver high quality disaster case management services to clients who meet eligibility criteria by focusing on the case management processes of assessment, planning, advocacy, linking and monitoring.  To accomplish this mission, the MCMC has assembled a family of Partner organizations who are working in concert with one another and the clients that they serve.

Melisa Beauchesne, Jackie Hunt and Kristina Dengler are three friends from Rochester, New York, but their hearts are big enough to reach all the way to Mississippi's Gulf Coast.

These women organized a Katrina Relief Night which took place on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at Beale Street Cafe in Rochester, New York, Roughly 1200 miles away from the devastated Mississippi Gulf Coast the event was to benefit. 1,718 days after the devastation occurred, it is inspiring to know that neither time or distance has managed to fade the will and desire of these New York women who continue to help with the ongoing rebuilding from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, by both volunteering on the coast at Camp Victor, and while back home in New York by promoting awareness and fundraising.

This past March, Melisa, Kristina, and Jackie spent a week volunteering together on the Mississippi Gulf Coast at Camp Victor, an organization dedicated to long term recovery. It was Jackie's 2nd volunteer trip and Melisa’s 3rd trip to Camp Victor.  It was the first visit for Kristina, who also enjoyed the experience. Jackie said, "All the families that we are able to meet and help on our trips to Camp Victor are so wonderful and gracious that we felt one week of help is just not enough for us, and we must do more." All three women plan to return to Camp Victor in September 2010.

Want to Adopt A Family, but think you don’t have the money to do it?  The MCMC Adopt A Family program welcomes donations of all sizes, from $50 to $50,000.

Don’t get discouraged, get creative!  Here are just a few of the creative ways to Adopt A Family...