Sherry Cambell talks about former residents, whose photos hang on the wall behind her at Welcome Home Monday, July 25, 2016.How you can help
To help Welcome Home, contact Sherry Campbell at 423-486-4001 or email her at info@welcomehomeofchattanooga.org. Visit Welcome Home’s website at welcomehomeofchattanooga.org
Signs from Charle’s Cuff’s recent birthday celebration hang in a window at Welcome Home Monday, July 25, 2016.For more than a decade, a former hospice social worker watched terminally ill people die, homeless and living in abandoned buildings and in tents with no family to care for them, and she wanted to help.
With assistance from other social workers and nonprofits, Sherry Campbell quit her job to start Welcome Home, a home on South Germantown Road for people who are homeless and terminally ill.
The home has served 26 people since opening in March 2015, and it has 11 more people on its waiting list, but Campbell had little funding to care for additional clients until Monday, when the Multifamily Coalition for Affordable Housing awarded Welcome Home $25,000 for scholarships.
The donation allows Welcome Home to care for three or four more residents when space becomes available and to provide stipends for four more Americorp volunteers to help care for them, Campbell said.