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Outreach & engagement center opening Soon!!
Starting September 16th!
From 6:30pm-8pm and every Thursday following the Enfield Safe Harbor Warming Center will be opening an Engagement & Outreach Center for those in need.
We will have small essential items, water, snacks and will also be assisting to connect guests to community resources and agencies.
The Engagement & Outreach Center will be located at St. Patrick's Lower Level Hall, 64 Pearl St., Enfield, CT 06082
We will also be taking in donations between 6:30pm and 7pm for any one who would like to donate to ESHWC. For more information contact Monica Wright @ 860-970-9065 or visit www.enfieldsafeharbor.org
GRANTS FROM THE HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING
For Immediate Release
Enfield, CT, August 11, 2021 – Two grants totaling $22,000 over two years have been awarded by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to Enfield People for People-Enfield Safe Harbor Warming Center to support securing space in Enfield for use as a warming center for our area homeless population, to provide a range of housing and social services outreach, to support basic human needs, and to defray the Warming Center's day-to-day operating costs.
"We are grateful for the support of the Hartford Foundation. Thanks to these grants, the Warming Center will advance its strategic plan to acquire a permanent facility in the Thompsonville area and provide temporary overnight respite for our homeless neighbors in need. We can also offer referrals to other social services agencies that we hope will lead to lower levels of housing insecurity, poverty, and unemployment", said Rosalind Swift, the Center’s Communications Chair.
At the close of our efforts last winter, and despite the challenges created by the COVID pandemic, the Warming Center served a total of 70 guests. We were able to connect the large majority of them to housing resources, including local accommodations managed by the Community Health Resources office in Enfield. We were also able to supply much needed food and personal items to our guests
To learn more about the Enfield Safe Harbor Warming Center or to volunteer, contact Monica Wright 860-970-9065. To learn more about ESHWC, donate funds or other items, contact Rosalind Swift at ep4p.eshw@gmail.com or Lorraine Creedon 860-749-0931. Checks may be made payable to Enfield People for People, with Enfield Safe Harbor Warming Center in the memo, and mail P.O. Box 165, Enfield CT 06083. Like us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/EPfPSHWC/Enfieldsafeharbor.org and visit our website at https://enfieldsafeharbor.org/.
end homelessness
The next time you or I go to complain raise your hands up and tell God forgive me. Let my hands and my mouth clothe the homeless, feed the sick, and let not one gift in me depart with me when my chapter is closed. There is always someone somewhere worst off than you and I. God forgive us! Tears!
