El Camino Homeless Organization in need of more volunteers
and last updated 2021-01-07 15:16:02-05
The El Camino Homeless Organization (ECHO) announced Thursday that the organization is in urgent need of volunteers for its three facilities.
ECHO can now house up to 80 individuals seeking emergency shelter during the winter months with that opening in addition to the 60 people in its core three-month case management program.
There are multiple positions ECHO needs volunteers for, starting at just a few hours a week. They include:
Nightly check-in of residents
Shower program monitors
ECHO said volunteers can choose what feels most comfortable â whether that be direct interaction with others or ancillary support roles.
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The most urgent need is overnight chaperones at the ECHO Atascadero shelter which requires an overnight stay for a team of two.
–El Camino Homeless Organization (ECHO), is in urgent need of volunteers for each of its facilities. As ECHO celebrates 20 years (2001-2021), a wave of expansion to meet the needs of homelessness in North County has led to an increased need for volunteers. Now operating three facilities in Atascadero and Paso Robles, the bed capacity has nearly tripled from the original ECHO shelter in Atascadero which housed 50 individuals. ECHO Atascadero now houses 60 individuals admitted to a core three-month case management program. ECHO Paso Robles located in the former Motel 6 on Black Oak Drive, houses 60 individuals seeking emergency shelter and ECHO Winter Emergency Shelter operates at Atascadero Community Church from Nov. 1 to March 31 each year and houses 20 individuals seeking emergency shelter during the winter months.
Posted by Brian Williams | Dec 10, 2020
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Wendy Lewis, president and CEO of El Camino Homeless Organization, Grace McIntosh, deputy director of Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County, and Janna Nichols, executive director of 5Cities Homeless Coalition were on the Expert Panel: Homelessness in SLO County 2020 organized by the League of Women Voters of San Luis Obispo County.
Posted by Brian Williams | Dec 10, 2020
Nonprofit leaders say it’s going to get worse due to fallout from pandemic
SAN LUIS OBISPO The leaders of three San Luis Obispo County homeless services providers called the County’s current situation a “humanitarian crisis” and are bracing for a “tidal wave” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wendy Lewis, president and CEO of El Camino Homeless Organization, Grace McIntosh, deputy director of Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County, and Janna Nichols, executive director of 5Cities Homeless Coalition were on the Expert Panel: Homelessness in SLO County 2020 organized by the League of Women Voters of San Luis Obispo County.