Running Helps Our Homeless Friends!

Simons Bitzer & Associates has chosen to support Back On My Feet as our 2016/2017 charity!

Back on My Feet combats homelessness through the power of running, community support and essential employment and housing resources.

Operating in 12 cities coast-to-coast, Back on My Feet seeks to revolutionize the way our society approaches homelessness. Our unique running-based model demonstrates that if you first restore confidence, strength, and self-esteem, individuals are better equipped to tackle the road ahead and move toward jobs, homes and new lives. For all in need, we aim to provide: practical training and employment resources for achieving independence; an environment that promotes accountability; and a community that offers compassion and hope. 

Back on My Feet recruits members at homeless and residential facilities around Indianapolis such as Wheeler Mission and Hoosier Veterans Assistance Foundation (HVAF) and the program begins with a commitment to run three days a week at 5:45AM. After 30 days in the program, members with 90% attendance earn the opportunity to move into the second phase of the program called Next Steps, which provides educational support, job training programs, employment partnership referrals and housing resources.