Homeless shelter agency receives $5,000 grant
Grant will help support temporary shelter for seriously ill homeless in county
Transitional Food and Shelter, the group operating the People;s Kitchen of North County, recently received a $5,000 grant from The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo County. The grant will be used toward temporary, emergency shelter to medically-fragile homeless people, according to Pearl Munak, president of Transitional Food and Shelter.
While able-bodied homeless persons can go to an overnight homeless shelter, some are too seriously ill or injured or disabled to be out all day without rest, Munak says in a press release. This program provides shelter 24 hours per day for homeless persons and their families referred by hospitals or social service agencies, with a letter from a doctor explaining why the person cannot be in a shelter.
Transitional Food and Shelter, Inc. was chosen to receive this grant and is among 27 recipients, whose grants total $121,750. This year’s grants were made possible through the support of the Foundation’s Community Endowment and many donor funds held at the Foundation. In the last 15 years, the community foundation has given out more than $24 million in grants to assist nonprofit agencies.
Transitional Food and Shelter, Inc. is a 15-year-old nonprofit which operates with volunteers only. For more information about Transitional Food and Shelter, Inc., go to www.NoWhereToGo.com.
It provides shelter to homeless patients released from hospitals or identified in the community as seriously ill or injured or disabled, and in need of shelter 24 hours a day. The patients’ families are sheltered with the patient. The program helps them to get well, or, if they can never get well, to get housing, so that their condition does not deteriorate unnecessarily.
It operates the People’s Kitchen of North County, serving supper to all hungry people Monday through Friday, at Second Baptist Church of Paso Robles. The group has launched a new warming shelter project in Paso Robles for people left outdoors on cold and rainy winter nights. The warming shelter project is called “Paso Cares”.
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