The Community Food & Outreach Center, one of Central Florida’s largest charities helping the hungry, the homeless, and families struggling in poverty, will open its new medical clinic in a ribbon cutting event tomorrow, November 27, at their downtown Orlando Campus.
The Community Food & Outreach Center’s Clinic and Counseling Center is being done in partnership with the local charities, Health Care Center for Homeless, The Harbor House, and The Grove Counseling Center. The program expansion will allow the Community Food and Outreach Center to provide health care, mental health counseling and domestic violence services to hundreds of families per day on its campus.
“Families are struggling in Central Florida in record numbers, and need comprehensive help overcoming a wide range of issues like hunger, homelessness, domestic violence, mental health, unemployment and others to break free from poverty. This program expansion at the Community Food & Outreach Center’s campus marks another big step in our goal to give families comprehensive services at our downtown campus,” said Andrae Bailey, executive director of the Community Food & Outreach Center. The charity provides hunger relief programs, crisis case work, education classes and other programs for more than 400 families in need every day at their Central Florida campus.
“We need to do more than just help people get food and get their basic needs met; we need to help them get back to the place of self suffiency,”added Bailey.
“To see these charities partner to help the poor and needy of Orlando is inspiring,” said Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer who will be cutting the ribbon at the grand opening ceremony on November 27th. “Something amazing happens when nonprofits like these come together and combine their resources and energy to help those in need.”
The Clinic & Counseling Center is the next phase in Community Food & Outreach Centers plan to develop its campus to offer holistic services to families in poverty in Central Florida.
