Over 3,500 Pinellas County students annually experience homelessness. Two local nonprofits have partnered to help break that cycle.
Tampa-based Metropolitan Ministries celebrated the launch of its first residential housing program in Pinellas with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday. The St. Petersburg Free Clinic owns the expansive facility that now provides a safe place to sleep for 29 families.
The building in downtown St. Petersburg will also feature case management, counseling, childcare, therapeutic youth activities, education and career development. Kip Corriveau, director of Pinellas residential programs for Metropolitan Ministries, said residents – primarily single mothers and their children – now have a place “where they can begin to relax and grow and feel safe.”…