IVINS OUTREACH CENTER

To learn more, visit the Ivins Outreach Center's website.

Located at 80 W. Trenton Ave. in Morrisville, PA, adjacent to the Morrisville Presbyterian Church parking lot, the Ivins Outreach Center (IOC) has been a vital mission of our church since 2003. The IOC supports residents of Lower Bucks County with quality-of-life programs that direct those in need of existing social services, provides transportation, companionship and other services which enable seniors to remain independent in their homes, and manages after-school and summer enrichment opportunities for children. IOC strives to improve the quality of life for those within our neighboring communities with opportunities to be healthy, confident, connected, and secure, regardless of age, income, or background. The name Ivins comes from Betsy Ivins who bequeathed money to MPC to establish a community outreach program.

Current Ivins Outreach Programs:

Assisting with food insecurity: Providing meals for older adults, children in afterschool programs and food boxes for families.
Community Stewardship: Distributing 300 new winter coats for children and teens from the area car dealerships' "Driving Away the Cold" campaign. Partnering with Toys for Tots and United Way, we were able to provide holiday toys, gifts and gift cards to 300 families with 865 children during our "Holiday Giving Tree" program.
Referral Help: Over the last year IOC’s Resource and Referral program has connected 903 individuals to social services. Referrals were provided for financial issues such as rent, utility or credit card debt, parenting issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, after-school programs and gangs, medical and health issues, and connecting individuals to needed social services in the community.
Staying Put in Lower Bucks: A membership program which provides services to seniors so they can stay in their own home and "age in place" rather than move to a nursing home or another level of care.
Staying Put Cancer Care Program: Provides services to individuals 55 and older who have cancer or in need of dialysis.
Home Share: Our "Home Sharing Housing" program brings together a homeowner (provider) who has a room to spare and a person (seeker) who is looking for a place to live. The provider and seeker each have a private bedroom, but both have full use of the rest of the provider’s home.
21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) Grant: Currently, there are seventeen free after-school programs operating across Bucks County, serving over 1,800 students. These programs are made possible through a combination of 21st CCLC funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, as well as Bucks County American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and Opioid Settlement Funds. The summer programs provide academics, the arts, sports, STEM and credit recovery classes, as well as career readiness opportunities designed to reverse the summer learning loss that many students experience.
Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) Funding: The IOC distributed $10,000 in OSTC funding in the 2024/2025 school year. The program provides tax credits to eligible businesses contributing to an Opportunity Scholarship Organization. Business contributions are then used by Opportunity Scholarship Organizations to provide tuition assistance in the form of scholarships to eligible students residing within the boundaries of a low-achieving school to attend another public school outside of their district or nonpublic school.
Food for Thought: Food for Thought is an after-school program offered to students thought the 21st Century Community Learning Center grant. Students prepare meals for 40 "Staying Put" seniors and are delivered by volunteers each Friday for eight weeks during fall and spring.

We are continually grateful to all our wonderful volunteers, our very dedicated and energetic staff at the Ivins Outreach Center, and for the leadership of our Executive Director - Darletta Berry-Johnson. We are solely reliant upon them.

The partnerships we have with MPC, Morrisville United Methodist Church, YMCA of Lower Bucks County, the Bucks County Technical High School, Lower Bucks United Way, Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) and Bucks County Area Agency on Aging (to name a few) are priceless. Then, of course, to all of those who have supported the Ivins Outreach Center throughout the years in a variety of ways; we are so very thankful.

We are dependent on fundraisers, grants, and donations from individuals, corporations, businesses as our source of funding. Visit our website for more information on the many ways you can be involved.

We look forward to continuing to serve our community with God’s grace and love with new ideas, new initiatives, and by improving what we already have in place.