SCHENECTADY — Vanessa Porter considers the staff at Bethesda House of Schenectady Inc. like family.
The grandmother of five has been living in one of the 26 apartments at Cara House at 912 State St. for the past two years after serving a lengthy prison sentence for murder.
Porter credits her progress over that time to people like Crystal Thatcher, director of homelessness and residential services at the nonprofit agency…