BELOIT, Wis. — Family Services of Southern Wisconsin is transforming the former Royce Elementary School in Beloit into apartments and a community space for families in need, called Next Steps Family Resilience Center.
It will include 18 transitional apartments for unhoused single parents and their children to live in for up to two years as they work to get back on their feet and find permanent housing.
“Instead of knowing that you have a 30- to 60-day stay where you have to just find the next apartment whether we can make it or not, you have the time or space to seek a promotion, finish a certificate, repair your credit,” said Kelsey Hood-Christenson, president and CEO of Family Services of Southern Wisconsin…