Update: HumanKind Ministries announced Wednesday that the emergency winter shelter will open Friday, Nov. 29. The emergency winter shelter in the former Park Elementary School will open on Dec. 2. The low-barrier shelter is part of the planned multi-agency center for homeless services at 1025 N. Main St. “Our immediate goal and objective is an emergency winter shelter, a 24/7, at least 18-week shelter through the winter months, much like we did last winter,” Assistant City Manager Troy Anderson said. “And then the goal is to ultimately transition into a full-time shelter with support services.” Humankind, a nonprofit formerly known as Interfaith Ministries, will operate the shelter this year as it has in the last 20 years. Much of the building looks the same as it did when it was a school, and some of the cubbies still have name tags from the last school year. The gymnasium and classrooms will have dozens of metal bunk beds for sleeping areas. The shelter is preparing for up to 230 beds, mostly for men, as the cold sets in. The city said at its busiest last year, the shelter saw 192 people.
Source: KLC Journal
