Women Of Achievement: Willis Dady’s Phoebe Trepp Provides Leadership, Collaboration

Phoebe Trepp was described as “the face of homeless services in Cedar Rapids,” in a letter of support for her HER Women of Achievement Award by past Willis Dady Homeless Services board president Samuel Jones.While she may brush off that description as a “bold statement,” the impact Trepp has made on Cedar Rapids’ homeless population is undisputed.After becoming executive director of Willis Dady in Cedar Rapids in May 2015, Trepp led a communitywide initiative to establish an overflow shelter system in winter, launched a successful capital campaign to renovate and expand the Willis Dady facilities, and established a permanent supportive housing program.One of Trepp’s first initiatives at Willis Dady was to coordinate with more than 15 local partner agencies to establish an overflow shelter system that provides lifesaving shelter for anyone in need on cold winter nights.