All obtainable beds within the winter shelters might be stuffed by referral solely. The consumption and screening course of is run by the Council for the Homeless.
Anybody staying within the shelters should move a background test that guidelines out intercourse offenders and those that not too long ago dedicated violent crimes. Households and essentially the most weak, together with kids and the aged, might be given desire.
Anybody needing shelter is requested to contact the Council for the Homeless Housing Hotline at 360-695-9677.
The best way to assist
Winter in a single day shelters want volunteers. Morning and night shifts can be found for 2 to a few hours per shift. Duties can embrace setup, greeting and check-in, meal assist, actions, social assist and repair animal assist. To use to volunteer at a winter shelter, go to outsidersinn.org/sws.
Donations of things are additionally welcome. Winter shelter service suppliers want blankets, new sweatshirts and sweatpants, floor espresso, creamer, sugar, scorching cocoa and different to-go meals choices comparable to granola bars. A full record of wants has been compiled in an Amazon Wishlist at clbn.us/shelterwishlist.
Donations could be dropped between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. every day at two of the town’s Protected Keep shelters: The Outpost, 11400 N.E. 51st Circle, or 415 West, 415 W. eleventh St., each in Vancouver. Don’t deliver donations to the winter shelters; workers is not going to be obtainable to just accept objects.