This past summer, the first families moved into the Salvation Army’s new $8.5 million Center of Hope facility, a 22,000-square-foot emergency housing shelter at 1718 Second Ave. in Columbus for families facing homelessness.
Among those residents is a mother with a daughter who has cancer, Columbus Salvation Army development and communications manager Drew Hunt, told the Ledger-Enquirer. At the Center of Hope, this mother has a case manager advocating for her daughter and her to receive the support they need.
“Being met with not only compassion but having a designated person that is getting to know you, your needs, your family’s situation and being able to connect dots of resources to help create that change for you, that is what is going to be moving the needle,” Hunt said. “That’s what really has been already life changing for that mother.”…