Volunteers of America Utah, Catholic Community Services and The Road Home all have extensive experience as compassionate providers to Utah’s homeless population. Now each will operate a separate facility in the new divide-and-conquer model. The new centers are scheduled to open next summer, at which time the much larger Road Home shelter in the Rio Grande area is expected to close after 20 years.
While the organizations are familiar, all three will be taking on challenging new roles. In addition to simply dispersing the massive population that has made the current shelter unmanageable, the new approach also puts heavy emphasis on giving people what they need now and what they need to live independently in the future.