Chairman Lloyd Mathiesen and the Chicken Ranch Tribal Council present the Board of Directors of Resiliency Village a check for $150,000.00 June has been a busy month at Resiliency Village. As you can see in the above picture, we are fortunate to have formed sponsorship with the Chicken Ranch band of the Me-Wuk. We are honored by their generosity and thrilled with the prospect of building our village together as family. The Chicken Ranch band of Me-Wuk Indians of California is a federally recognized Indian tribe located in the foothills […]
Hear Our Radio Interview
Resiliency Village on the Air Mother Lode Views (on-air interview from early 2019) focused on a local organization’s efforts to help residents facing challenges related to things like trauma and homelessness. Resiliency Village was created in early 2019 in response to the rise in homelessness. Guests included Dr. Brenda Chapman, Shelley Muniz and Erin O’Hare. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Mother Lode Views airs Saturday and Sunday morning at 9:30 on AM 1450 and FM 102.7 KVML. Mother Lode Views can also be heard Sunday morning at 10 o’clock […]
Anonymous donor helps group purchase first house for homeless village
Resiliency Village, a volunteer-driven effort launched earlier this year to establish a community of tiny homes for people living without shelter in Tuolumne County, celebrated a milestone on Monday with the delivery of its first 200-square-foot house. The house arrived from Fresno before noon at a property on Peaceful Valley Road in East Sonora. It was purchased thanks to an anonymous donation of $10,000 that Resiliency Village received about a month ago. “Having our first tiny house is really quite amazing,” said Shelley Muniz, of Willow Springs, who’s part of […]
Village of tiny houses for homeless people sees growing support
Support is growing for a grassroots effort to build a village of small houses in Tuolumne County where people who are homeless could live and get treatment for underlying trauma. The people behind the project, which they’re calling Resiliency Village, have raised $3,430 from 73 individual donors through Facebook in less than three weeks and say they’ve spoken with dozens of others who have offered their help to take the project from an idea to a reality. “People are ready for something like this,” said Shelley Muniz, of Willow Springs, […]