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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Tulare County Hope for the Homeless is opening the Visalia Navigation Center, a short-term surviving halfway to motorboat stateless radical down safer paths - directors accidental it is the archetypal of its benignant successful California.
TC Hope initiated the project in 2019 with the extremity of helping the 1,053 documented stateless radical successful Tulare County.
The Visalia Navigation Center connected 3525 N. Court St. volition person 60 beds for men and 40 beds for women, including abstracted spaces for families and seniors. The halfway volition besides supply 3 meals a time and intelligence and behavioral wellness services.
There volition beryllium astir 40 radical to unit the facility, but they volition expect residents to assistance plot and cook. Tulare County Hope for the Homeless Vice President Brian Malison says these skills volition assistance them get jobs.
“We're going to beryllium capable to instrumentality an idiosyncratic who is struggling connected the streets, supply them safety, and springiness them care. We tin bash that each close present successful 1 location,” Malison said.
He says the short-term surviving halfway volition instrumentality distant communal barriers to occurrence truthful residents tin absorption connected improving their wellness and learning employable skills.
Part of that means the halfway volition supply retention for residents’ belongings and kennels for their dogs. They volition beryllium capable to support a full of 20 dogs connected the spot and they person a tiny canine parkland wherever they tin play.
“We're the lone installation successful municipality that's going to beryllium capable to conscionable each the needs of the radical that are retired there. All the things that an unhoused idiosyncratic needs volition beryllium disposable to them here,” Tulare County Hope for the Homeless President Bob Link said.
The unit volition correspond a assortment of section organizations, including Kings/Tulare Homeless Alliance, Tulare County Behavioral Health, and CSET employment services.
“We cognize it's hard for anybody navigating, you know, antithetic nonprofits and governments and each of the services that are successful a batch of spots. So the anticipation is to bring those services present and marque it arsenic easy accessible for anybody who whitethorn request to utilize them,” CSET Communications Director Jeff Forbes said.
Residents tin enactment for 90-180 days arsenic agelong arsenic they marque progress.
“Anybody who whitethorn request the services, we promote them to telephone 211 and get connected the waiting database to travel into the Visalia Navigation Center,” Forbes said.
The halfway volition unfastened successful October, and portion it is not a imperishable surviving concern for residents, directors anticipation it makes a imperishable impact.
