How might we help children of CATCH families in making their house THEIR home?
FLIP started its fourth year as a One Stone project, but pivoted to a new way of tackling the same HMW statement: “How might we help children of CATCH families in making their house THEIR home?” While the team continued their empathy work by getting to know each family personally, they decided to focus on building or renovating dressers (identified by community partners as a main need) in order to personalize each room.
The team began by having a dresser drive to collect dressers that were ready to renovate. After receiving two dressers in good shape that were ready to be personalized to recipients’ needs. Coach Adan Callsen and student Bebe Blue began preparing to turn initial ideas from the team into CNC ready fabrication plans. Students also interviewed two recipient families to see how many dressers each household would be needing and to learn more about the recipients’ needs and personalities. The West family would need two dressers (three young children with a baby on the way), and the Judge family would need two dressers (two young girls).
The final product included completing four dressers for two different families, and supplying bedding to one of the families who desperately needed it.
Fast Facts
Year(s): Fall 2020/Spring 2021
Focus: Families experiencing homelessness
Recipients: Two CATCH families
Community partner: CATCH
Number of recipients: ~10
Number of One Stone members involved in planning: 8-10
Number of weeks of planning: 15-20
