PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The RESTORE Family Homeless Shelter is the only shelter of its kind in the city of Portsmouth.
The RESTORE Homeless shelter has 25 beds for intact families — “it can be mom/dad, it can be mom/sister/child — recently we had a lot of single dads come through, so that’s what we mean by family shelter,” said Symone Stewart, the crisis service and shelter manager.
The Help and Emergency Response or H.E.R. Shelter acquired the facility in September 2018 to address family homelessness in the community…