Shelter House is just one of many local charities vying for your dollars during the busy holiday season.
Executive Director Michelle Jordan tells us they are hoping you can help provide them with up to $200,000 noting the community’s generosity is crucial to maintaining their vital lifesaving services like the SOS program.
Jordan adds their services are in high demand and are in continued use, “people will freeze to death outside and that’s the bottom line. People sleep outside when they don’t have access to our services. Our SOS program helps pick them up and brings them to our shelter and to other shelters.”
The Shelter House Executive notes their emergency shelter is at full capacity most nights and they’ve had to turn people away. Jordan says the demand is out there and when they have to turn people away they let residents use their phone, or try and find them another place to stay.
Funds will also go towards their food services, the SOS van that brings homeless people off the streets in the cold winter months, Shelter House’s emergency shelter and managed alcohol programs.
