We often help families with furniture and household items when we find them living without basic items. We have a secure storage building in central Norman and rely on donations of beds, couches and loveseats, dressers, dishes, pots and pans, glassware, towels, sheets, pillows, blankets, tables, chairs, floor and table lamps and other basics. Most of the people we help live in fairly small spaces so we don't usually accept large entertainment centers, king size beds or older televisions. Please call the Helpline if you have furniture to donate or contact a member of St. Vincent de Paul.
We also support Cottage 8 in McKown Village . St. Thomas More hosts one of several cottages built in Norman in 2017 to provide temporary housing (usually about a year or 18 months) for individuals and families who are homeless. In addition to housing they receive case worker support from Food and Shelter staff and help with finding employment or medical help or whatever it is that contributed to their being without a home. Parishioners help furnish the one-room house and when the resident finds a permanent home, they are invited to take anything they need for their new home and we start again.