https://forms.office.com/r/0eWB0TttYQ ✏️CAST YOUR VOTE by Wednesday, April 15th 📌to affirm the next Community Representative on our Board of Directors. Community Representatives must be elected or affirmed by the community in order to be seated on the board of Passage Home. If you are a current resident of Wake County (Apex, Cary, Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Morrisville, Raleigh, Rolesville, Wake Forest, Wendell, Zebulon) you may cast a vote. 📢 Meet the Candidate: Name: Ivey L. Chavis Why are you interested in serving on the Passage Home Board? “I am interested in serving as a Community Representative to be part of the solution at a decision-making level. I want to see my community housed to satisfy this level of their need.” What skills or experience, perspectives, or skills would you bring as a Community Representative? “I was a VA social worker for 26 years. I have good experience with working with the unhoused, formerly incarcerated, and people with mental illness.” (fb)

**Do you have a story to share about the Raleigh Safety Club? Please share in the comments or send us a message! ** As Black History Month comes to a close, we honor the legacy of our “home” -- the Raleigh Safety Club. This photo was taken circa 1956 and was published in The Carolinian, an African American newspaper that has been published in Raleigh since 1932. 📰 The Raleigh Safety Club was established in 1938 by employees of the Buckeye Oil Mills as a mutual aid association where neighbors could help neighbors through illness and other crises. When the club learned of community needs such as a family struggling with burial costs, funds were collected to assist the family. In 1945 a woman’s auxiliary group, the Raleigh Community Club, was founded which numbered over 400 members by 1956. 🏘 🔑A club house was built (what we now know as the Safety Club) in 1951, and became an important part of the fabric of a thriving Black community in southeast Raleigh. This building has hosted church services,⛪️ housed concerts, has been used for birthday celebrations, 🎉 voter registration drives co-sponsored by the NAACP,⚖️ tutoring programs 📚 and many other types of social and civic events. 🏡 Our main office has been housed here for nearly two decades and community groups continue using the space for meetings and events. We love hearing from community members who have childhood memories of coming to the Safety Club to hear traveling gospel singers or to attend other gatherings here with their families and neighbors. 🎹🎼🎤 So much history here, it's hard to fit in one Facebook post! We are honored to be the current stewards of this special place. #raleighsafetyclub #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #BlackHistoryMonth #southeastraleigh #PassageHome #RaleighHistory #legacy (fb)