Meth played a significant role in Kathleen Smith’s life. But, spending a year in county homeless shelters – most recently at the new Port Orchard shelter, Pacific Building – allowed Smith to turn her life around. Today she cleans houses, works at a fast-food restaurant and recently acquired something she has not had in 14 years – her own place to live.
“The shelter had a good impact on me. I would never have been able to keep a job. I got to work and come home to a roof over my head. It also gave me a place to go to treatment,” Smith said.
Prior to taking up shelter life, 47-year-old Smith’s life included street drugs, medical hardship and traumatic loss…