'Naomi's House' in Downtown Fresno continues being safe space for women

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Giving women a harmless spot to stay.

"It's much than a bed, it's much than meals," says Poverello House CEO Zack Darrah. "Everything is astir the imaginativeness and walking alongside women to extremity their homelessness permanently."

Located successful Downtown Fresno, the recently renovated Naomi's House disconnected F Street, has 34 beds.

Darrah says the abstraction is not lone a shelter, but besides a harmless space.

"Naomi's House was archetypal started successful the aboriginal 2000s successful conjunction with the Poverello House, St. Agnes, and Marjaree Mason Center," Darrah said. "It came unneurotic aft the partners saw a narration betwixt women connected the streets and the suffering of life-altering trauma."

The recently renovated transitional lodging installation allows women a spot to enactment for up to 90 days.

It besides includes a full-sized room and eating area, backstage showers and a laundry room.

When Naomi's House astatine Holy Cross opened its doors successful May, the 34 beds filled up.

Since then, Darrah says they've helped determination respective women into much imperishable housing.

"Naomi's House astatine Holy Cross exists truly for 1 reason, and that is to extremity homelessness for women successful our community, 1 pistillate astatine a time," helium said.

St. Agnes Medical Center and Poverello House stock a decades-long relationship.

They initially worked unneurotic to alteration the space.

It was a process months successful the making to get the installation up and going.

"Everything from permits to really the operation and getting each that enactment together," Darrah said.

Naomi's House has travel a agelong way.

Ivonne Der Torosian with St. Agnes tells Action News it's astir bridging the gap.

"We privation housing, and we privation to beryllium capable to consciousness harmless and we privation to beryllium a spouse successful that," she said.

As for the aboriginal of Naomi's house, determination are plans to physique a assemblage plot and adhd an on-site aesculapian clinic.

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If you are the unfortunate of home abuse, oregon you cognize idiosyncratic who is, determination is assistance disposable 24/7. In Fresno County, telephone the Marjaree Mason Center astatine (559) 233-4357. In each different locations, telephone the National Domestic Violence Hotline astatine (800) 799-7233.