By Lois R. Shea, Senior Writer and Communications Officer |
Waypoint is expanding services for young people experiencing homelessness in New Hampshire. Grants totaling $200,000 from the Foundation’s Community Crisis Action Fund are helping to support new resource centers in Rochester and Concord and an expansion to provide emergency overnight shelter in Manchester — the state’s first for people aged 18-24.
Waypoint estimates that as many as 14,000 people between the ages of 12 and 24 experience homelessness in New Hampshire in a year’s time.
The center in Rochester provides services for young people from 12 to 24 — including basic needs (food, clothing, showers, laundry), plus help with school, job training, driver’s licenses, life-skill building, housing, recreational opportunities, access to mental health and substance misuse treatment and other services that contribute to long-term stability. The same services will soon be offered in Concord.
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