Crosslines Community Outreach (CCO) has begun working on an improved emergency women’s shelter in Springfield.
The outreach’s Safe to Sleep women’s shelter program has been operating between hotels and churches for 13 years, but its founders want to do better.
The new shelter will have a capacity of 50 but will offer much higher-quality and more private amenities.
Those in the current Safe to Sleep shelter have to assemble cots every night, but the new space will have personal sleeping pods.
The shelter will be built in the outreach’s main building, giving those that stay there better access to resources to help them get back on their feet and into housing much easier.
According to CCO, the shelter should be open by next August, though the hope is to have it open sooner.
Photo courtesy of Crosslines Community Outreach.