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| Stan Schultz stand with the Ozark Family Resource Agnecy and their new truck. |
OFRA is a 24 hour/7 day a week service agency that
transports shelter residents and their children to school and community
functions. OFRA also takes those
residents to doctor appointments and even to submit applications for
employment. They travel daily into the
service area of a seven-county region to provide these direct services. OFRA provides parenting in-home services,
skill building and child development, and they also travel to conduct forensic
interviews with children that have been abused sexually and physically. This seven-county service area spans across
more than 4,400 square miles.
SSE has donated older vehicles that needed to be taken
out of its fleet but were very usable for the type of traveling OFRA workers
required. “We are extremely grateful to
Stan Schultz, he has been more than generous to have donated three vehicles
over the past few years and two in 2011,” said Melissa Morgan, Director of
Operations, OFRA. “Stan has been so
understanding with the work that we do and the need of our agency to
travel. The money that we are able to
save by having agency vehicles for use instead of paying mileage has been
amazingly beneficial to our agency.”
SSE also donated a truck that has been instrumental in
helping transition crisis shelter clients into housing. With the truck,
OFRA is able to move people into their own home. In addition, OFRA is
able to utilize it for fundraisers. “We have had a successful “stuff the
truck” to collect food and other supplies for the crisis shelter. We hold
fundraisers across our seven county region, and with the truck we have been
able to move all of our fundraiser stuff to our events with one trip, saving us
money,” stated Melissa.
The mission of Ozark Family Resource Agency is to support
children and families in crisis through the crisis shelter, affordable housing,
and child advocacy services. And that is
exactly what they are doing. “Being able
to give back to the community in such a way as this has been a true honor. These families and children are in good hands
with Melissa and the OFRA, and I look forward to continuing our relationship
for years to come,” said Stan Schultz, owner of SSE.
Melissa Morgan had this to conclude, “OFRA has been
blessed by knowing Stan Schultz. He has literally been the “wind
beneath our wings, enabling us to transport shelter clients, attend staff
trainings, move housing clients, and promote OFRA through fundraising events
because he gifted the agency with three vehicles! Our agency has been
able to soar, thanks to Stan’s generosity.”
For more information about the Ozark Family Resource
Agency or to make a donation please visit www.ofra.org
or call (573)996-2648.
