Our Mission
All Among Us delivers care with advocacy and opportunities to the at-risk and underserved experiencing trauma, poverty, mental illness, and addiction. We carry out our mission with love, care and dignity for the people we serve.
All Among Us delivers care with advocacy and opportunities to the at-risk and underserved experiencing trauma, poverty, mental illness, and addiction. We carry out our mission with love, care and dignity for the people we serve.
It is widely perceived that individuals become homeless after running out of money. In reality people become homeless when they run out of relationships. They no longer have relationships with parents, siblings, spouses, or significant others, and often no relationship with their own children.
People without a supportive community often sink into depression, return to unhealthy relationships, addictions and, eventually, into homelessness. Supportive and enriching relationships are critical to impacting the generational poverty cycle.
All Among Us impacts homelessness by establishing healthy, reliable relationships and community. Supportive and enriching relationships have positive impacts on their lives and the lives of their families and friends.
Cathryn Shaw worked at a construction company in downtown St. Louis in 2006. During orientation, she was instructed not to turn right out of the building when leaving because the Powell Building, a heroin addicts’ shelter, was just a block away.
Across the street from Powell, there were several homeless camps and settlements in abandoned warehouses. Cathryn met a young couple lying on a pier with only their sleeping bags one evening as she was leaving work. She built a friendship with the couple over the course of several months, providing them with necessities and assisting them in securing and moving into a permanent home. Cathryn was so moved by the couple’s achievement that she decided to devote her life to helping the chronically homeless and impoverished single mothers of St. Louis City.
Cathryn founded All Among Us to devote her full time and attention to those living in generational poverty. After serving hundreds of people each year for 19 years, she has developed a significant volunteer network to aid her efforts.
Executive Committee
Cathryn C. Shaw
All Among Us Inc.
Thomas (Tom) Nations
Attorney
The Nations Law Firm
Cheryl Hansen
Vice President and Director, R&D (Ret)
Nestlé Purina PetCare Company
Broker
Crane Agency
Board Members
Journalist, Filmmaker
Retired