About Doorstep - What we do
Emergency Services
Doorstep provides these up front, emergency services:
- Food
- Clothing
- Rent
- Transportation
- Prescriptions
- Utilities
Emergency services are provided to people based on need. Perhaps their home burned to the ground, they have been laid off or have become disabled. People who have missed work or paychecks because of illness, they were laid off. Those who are put on disability can get services while they wait for services from the government. While we don't have income guidelines, 90% client at or below poverty so emergency may also mean constant poverty.
To learn more, contact emergency services.
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Offer Short Term Help
We offer up-front, short term help to get people back on their feet. During
moment of crisis. How often can our neighbors get assistance?
- Food - once food every 8 - weeks -- intended to provide 3 meals for 5 days
- Clothing - Once a week
- Rent - One time in a 12 month period
- Transportation - Funding three times in a 12 month period
- Prescriptions - Three times in a 12 month period
- Utilities - One time in a 12 month period
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Putting a face on the faceless
Doorstep
helps the faceless. The people we look at but don't see. The life-long
Topekans who have worked hard and fallen on hard times. The people the
public doesn't want to see or deal with. We do. We see them. We are
there for the poor - who will always be there.
- Crisis + improve way of life = become self sufficient. That's the formula we use to help our less fortunate neighbors survive.
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- Doorstep alleviates the burden from other agencies, both social and
governmental.
As
one of three primary emergency assistance agencies, Doorstep clients
come mostly from the east and central parts of Topeka. All three agencies
are hooked together so we know what clients get what services and so
we can spread scarce resources around. - Doorstep tends to fill in gap for those families waiting for assistance. We can help prevent eviction, feed kids, and get the elderly to a doctor's office by helping pay for bus tickets or with gas vouchers. Doorstep helps "cover the family" during the waiting period for services from the state.
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