Show 54: Excerpt - A Visit to a Shelter for Homeless Families
This story was originally featured on Show 54: Homeless Youth in Alaska
ON ONE DAY in January 2011, more than 900 people in the Matanuska-Susitna area met some definition of homelessness, and about half of them were children. The Mat-Su doesn’t have as many shelter options as Anchorage, but it does have Family Promise – a national program that organizes churches to provide emergency shelter for families with children.
Contributor Jessica Cochran recently visited Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wasilla to speak to those who are helping, and to those who need help.
Resources & dates mentioned in this story:
- Mat Su Coalition on Housing and Homelessness
- All day summit in Wasilla on addressing homelessness in the Mat-Su: December 13, 2011
- 2012 Statewide Snapshot Homelessness count: January 25, 2012
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