Meaghan Rodeck has a gift for making things happen. She uses that gift to help restore peace to families pulling themselves out of homelessness, providing everything from emergency shelter to affordable housing.

She is the Vice President of Strategy and People Operations at UMOM New Day Centers, an organization started 60 years ago and once known as the United Methodist Outreach Ministries. Their goal is to end family homelessness in our community by restoring hope and rebuilding lives.

As the largest shelter for unhoused families in the state, UMOM does not manage homelessness – they work to end it. They cite their formula to success as: Jobs + Housing = Ending Homelessness.

The organization serves nearly 15,000 individuals annually, providing safe shelter and services for nearly 700 people each night, including families and single women. They help families find permanent affordable housing, providing critical stability for children. Studies indicate each time a child moves, they can lose as much as six months of academic progress.

In addition to housing, they offer services that target issues that may have led to homelessness, including job training, healthcare, healthy food, basic financial training, and counseling.

Click here to learn more about UMOM New Day Centers: https://www.umom.org/

Original air date: May 29, 2025.

Meaghan Rodeck has a gift for making things happen. She uses that gift to help restore peace to families pulling themselves out of homelessness, providing everything from emergency shelter to affordable housing.
She is the Vice President of Strategy and People Operations at UMOM New Day Centers, an organization started 60 years ago and once known as the United Methodist Outreach Ministries. Their goal is to end family homelessness in our community by restoring hope and rebuilding lives.
As the largest shelter for unhoused families in the state, UMOM does not manage homelessness &ndash; they work to end it. They cite their formula to success as: Jobs + Housing = Ending Homelessness.
The organization serves nearly 15,000 individuals annually, providing safe shelter and services for nearly 700 people each night, including families and single women. They help families find permanent affordable housing, providing critical stability for children. Studies indicate each time a child moves, they can lose as much as six months of academic progress.
In addition to housing, they offer services that target issues that may have led to homelessness, including job training, healthcare, healthy food, basic financial training, and counseling.
Click here to learn more about UMOM New Day Centers: <a href="https://www.umom.org/">https://www.umom.org/</a>
Original air date:&nbsp;May 29, 2025.

The Rescuers radio show provides an opportunity to spotlight people who are working behind the scenes to make this world a better place. These people serve as inspiration and idea starters to encourage others to find creative ways to impact their community, their city, and the world.

Host Art Brooks has spent his career in broadcasting, both as on-air talent and in representing the industry as president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association for nearly 30 years. He was the driving force behind an Emmy-winning series of documentaries on drug abuse that combined a phone bank of 100 seasoned counselors and history-making "roadblock," as every TV station in Arizona and many radio stations broadcast the groundbreaking show on the same day at the same time. He also was instrumental in starting AZ AMBER Alert (one of two states in the nation where broadcasters initiated the program), helped form the Native American Broadcast Institute at Northern Arizona University and consulted with broadcasters in Bulgaria to help build commercial radio as the country was coming out of communism.

Rescuers airs 5:30-6 p.m. AZ time Thursdays on KPXQ-AM Faith Talk 1360, beginning May 7, 2020. Based in Phoenix, it is available internationally online. We invite you to submit names of heroes you think would be good subjects for the show - just message us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/

The Rescuers radio show provides an opportunity to spotlight people who are working behind the scenes to make this world a better place. These people serve as inspiration and idea starters to encourage others to find creative ways to impact their community, their city, and the world. Host Art Brooks has spent his career in broadcasting, both as on-air talent and in representing the industry as president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association for nearly 30 years. He was the driving force behind an Emmy-winning series of documentaries on drug abuse that combined a phone bank of 100 seasoned counselors and history-making "roadblock," as every TV station in Arizona and many radio stations broadcast the groundbreaking show on the same day at the same time. He also was instrumental in starting AZ AMBER Alert (one of two states in the nation where broadcasters initiated the program), helped form the Native American Broadcast Institute at Northern Arizona University and consulted with broadcasters in Bulgaria to help build commercial radio as the country was coming out of communism. Rescuers airs 5:30-6 p.m. AZ time Thursdays on KPXQ-AM Faith Talk 1360, beginning May 7, 2020. Based in Phoenix, it is available internationally online. We invite you to submit names of heroes you think would be good subjects for the show - just message us on Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/">https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/</a>

Rescuers radio show

An inspiring program highlighting everyday heroes who change and save lives, making the world around us a better place.

An inspiring program highlighting everyday heroes who change and save lives, making the world around us a better place.