The Tompkins County American Red Cross celebrated the opening of their Homeless Services Friendship Center & Shelter on Thursday, December 11 at the renovated facility at 618 West State Street in downtown Ithaca. This is the culmination of a development plan that started in 2002 and has been greatly anticipated by all those who were involved in making this new facility a reality. The new Center & Shelter will provide much needed growing room to the TC Red Cross Homeless Services program, adding 18 additional emergency shelter beds and six permanent beds for targeted homeless men and women. The new facility will be in addition to the 13-bed Red Cross Homeless Shelter on West Court Street.
The renovated building will be an integrated facility, housing the daytime drop-in Friendship Center downstairs, overnight emergency shelter and permanent beds upstairs, and new office space in the front of the building for re-housing case management personnel now scattered around Ithaca. Putting these services under one roof will increase the efficiency and quality of the Homeless Services Program and on-site shelter resident supervision. It will also cut down on expenditures to area motels that house homeless clients when the Homeless Shelter runs out of space. The new Tompkins County American Red Cross Homeless Services Friendship Center & Shelter is one of only four such shelters in the United States, run as a Red Cross facility.
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