Warming shelter opens doors after years of effort
After seven years of advocacy, the Sitka Homeless Coalition successfully launched a warming shelter last week (1-9-24) that will keep its doors open on the coldest nights of the winter.
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A tiny home community could be a new start for Sitka’s chronically homeless
Despite decades of efforts, Sitka has no homeless shelter. The latest attempt by the Sitka Homeless Coalition fell through after the organization couldn’t find a space to rent. Now, the Coalition is turning to a possible tiny home community instead to help tackle chronic homelessness.
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Housing expert: Many Sitkans struggle to make rent
In Sitka, like many towns in Southeast Alaska, geographic isolation creates unique problems of affordable housing and homelessness. This week (6-25-18) Sitka held a pair of town hall meetings with a visiting expert to canvas ideas for solutions.
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FASD: Despite challenges, not an intellectual deficit
My name is Gayle Young and I work with the Sitka neurodevelopmental diagnostic team. I would like to tell you something wonderful and something hard. This is the very good part: Many parents are contacting the Team to ask that their children to be evaluated for FASD. And this is the very hard part: Some current statistics are not hopeful. 80% of people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders will not keep jobs without on-going support.
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