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TRAVERSE CITY — Safe Harbor’s new, abiding home opened in the nick of time.
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Weather forecasts alarm for at atomic two weeks of temperatures in the 30s and 40s, authoritative the emergency abandoned accommodation a warm, safe anchorage for those who contrarily ability beddy-bye outdoors or in their cars.
“I’ve consistently acquainted our primary mission is to accumulate bodies from freezing in the winter,” said Safe Harbor Lath Chairman Mike McDonald. “Everything we can do aloft that is icing on the cake.”
The Wellington Street accommodation opened Nov. 4 afterwards a Nov. 1 dedication. Officials led tours at an accessible abode that followed.
“It’s so exciting,” said lath affiliate MaryEllen Sanok, as she took in the rows of applesauce beds with dejected mattresses still clad in artificial in the men’s sleeping room.
The allowance is one of bristles sleeping areas for men and women, including angle accommodation for guests who are ailing or are loud sleepers, who beddy-bye with CPAP machines, or who don’t beddy-bye well, said Safe Harbor Fundraising Chairman Christie Minervini. Beds in the dormitory-style accommodation — in restful shades of dejected and biscuit — are positioned head-to-foot to abbreviate the advance of germs.
Altogether the accommodation can beddy-bye 72, Minervini said.
Nodding off in a bed may complete ordinary, but it’s a huge advance over sleeping arrange at the churches that had taken turns accommodation abandoned guests in their own barrio back 2003, said Safe Harbor Director Peter Starkel.
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“Now you don’t accept to beddy-bye on a mat on the floor,” he said. “It’s things like that, that access address and the added you can do that, the added the affinity of ‘normal’ for people.”
More than 2,000 abbey volunteers — 19 a day in four accouterment — will abide to agents the new shelter, which will be accessible November through April. The accommodation affairs with Goodwill Inn for accommodation supervision, ability administration and kitchen coordination.
“It takes 167 bodies to run the accommodation anniversary week,” Starkel said.
Guests can analysis in from 6-7 p.m. nightly. Anniversary receives a accumulator tub, a bed, a absolute and a corpuscle buzz charging locker, said Minervini.
Hot banquet — able in the stainless steel, bartering kitchen — is served in the dining and acquaintance anteroom at 6:15 p.m. After, guests can booty a hot shower, do laundry in one of three stackable washer-dryer units, watch television in the media allowance or use one of three computer stations to analysis email and job-search. Lights out is at 11 p.m.
Guests leave by 8 a.m., afterwards a continental breakfast. Again they can affix with added casework they charge through the Apartment and Human Casework Centermost at the advanced of the building. The centermost includes two offices for accomplice agencies and a dispensary area agents from Traverse Bloom Dispensary can accomplish bloom checks, anguish affliction and added procedures.
The centermost will be accessible year-round from 8-11 a.m. Monday through Saturday.
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“Having a dispensary is huge,” Starkel said. “I’ve apparent so abounding bodies who accept a ahem that turns into a algid that turns into pneumonia.”
But Safe Harbor's assignment isn't over. Next the alignment will booty up affairs to body amid 50 and 60 flat and one-bedroom accommodation units on the bristles and a bisected burghal lots it purchased for subsidized and affordable housing.
“This is a win for Traverse Burghal and what we can do to advice the vulnerable,” said Traverse Burghal Mayor Jim Carruthers, who appropriate the architecture — a above bus depot, another aerial academy and Boys and Girls Club again slated for auctioning — as a accessible abandoned accommodation four years ago.
“This is aloof the beginning. There’s a lot added fundraising and a lot added involvement,” he said.
Safe Harbor by the numbers
• Local churches that participated: 20
• Volunteers: 2,100
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• Average guests per night: 35
• Meals provided: 9,700
• Months the accommodation was open: 6
• Different individuals served: 195
• Average breadth of stay: 25 days
• Guests who begin abiding shelter: 49
• Tax dollars acclimated to run Safe Harbor: $0
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Numbers are for the 2016-17 season, and are provided by Safe Harbor.
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