The guests at an Ohio homeless shelter will no longer be kicked out each day with no place to go. The organization which operates the nightly shelter will open an afternoon program nearby. According to Judy Burr, the executive director,
“Over the past three years, we’ve seen the number of children staying at Project Hope for the Homeless jump from an average of 20 to more than 70 in 2011 — and we’ve already passed that through November,” Burr said.
Project Hope shelter guests arrive each night at 7 p.m., and receive a hot dinner, concentrated one-on-one goal-setting meeting, evening program and showers, plus a designated bed and area for their belongings.
Each morning, shelter guests leave around 6:45 a.m. and then are on their own.
Some go to work, students go to school, some attend mandatory sessions with other social service agencies designed to help them improve their lives, and others attend the Salvation Army daytime drop-in program, which ends at 1 p.m.
The 1 p.m. closing time is often not problematic for individual adults, but for families with children, it can increase stress in a crisis situation.
A homework room with computers, a nap room, toys, and snacks will be provided in a local church. Stress relieved.
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Not in Lorain. The chruch kicks them out at 8am and they head down the street to the library to cause problems and beg off people in the hi-rise who are on disability.
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