Salt Lake City’s Project Homeless Connect, now in its second year, offers people experiencing homelessness in Utah access to a one-stop shop to a number of resources that may be challenging to access otherwise.
At the event, held Friday at the Salt Palace Convention Center, 90 service providers offered a number of health resources, like vision screening, flu shots and dental assessments, as well as housing assistance, voter registration and haircuts.
“There are a lot of services spread out,” said Matthew Rojas, a spokesman with the Salt Lake City mayor’s office. “So this is one day where these individuals come and take care of a lot of the things that they need to take care of.