New Salt Lake City women's homeless shelter almost ready despite wet spring
Ashley Imlay - Deseret News - https://www.deseretnews.com/article/...et-spring.html
SALT LAKE CITY — Despite difficulties caused by a long-lasting and rainy spring, builders have almost finished the new downtown Salt Lake City women's homeless shelter...
Construction continues on the Geraldine E. King Women’s Resource Center, 131 E.700 South, in Salt Lake City on Friday, June 14, 2019. The wet spring has pushed back the center's opening. Photo By Laura Seitz, Deseret News
...The 60,000-square-foot Geraldine E. King Women's Resource Center will start housing up to 200 women experiencing homelessness by the end of July or beginning of August, according to the Department of Workforce Services, a partner in the projects. June 30 was the original target date for opening all three new homeless resource centers.
The modern, open space will offer supportive services including medical support, life-skills training, employment training and housing navigation, Cochrane said.
It will be operated by Volunteers of America, with lunches and dinners brought to the center's large dining space every day by Catholic Community Services.
Kathy Bray, president and CEO for Volunteers of America-Utah, said the most exciting aspect of the first center is that it will be women-only.
"I think the women are really going to like it and they're going to feel special. And that's part of the healing, and it's part of the empowerment that we're hoping to instill because life has been pretty tough for these women," she said...
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Meanwhile, the Gail Miller Resource Center for men and women at 242 W. Paramount Ave. is expected to welcome clients about two weeks after the women's center. The third new resource center, on 1000 West in South Salt Lake, is expected to be ready in September. The combined cost for all three shelters is $62 million, the Department of Workforce Services said.
The Utah Legislature appropriated $20 million to fund the construction. Prominent Utah businesswoman Gail Miller pledged to match dollar-for-dollar every donation up to $10 million to help fund the centers. Donations have also included $4 million from businessman Pat King for the women's shelter and $10 million from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for transitional housing.
Shelter the Homeless also continues to seek donations to fund the homeless resource centers. As of Monday, the nonprofit had raised more than $6 million out of its $10 million goal, Cochrane said...
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The not-yet-finished Gail Miller Resource Center in Salt Lake City is pictured on Thursday, May 2, 2019. Officials announced Thursday they are naming the new homeless resource center after Gail Miller, owner of the Utah Jazz.
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