TSOS Residents Decline Indoor Shelter – Donations Needed
CEO of Missoula’s United Way Susan Hay Patrick explains.
“Watching the weather forecast and knowing it was going to be so brutally cold, our first thought was ‘how can we move people into indoor shelter during this cold snap’,” said Hay Patrick. “We made arrangements with the Johnson Street emergency shelter for most of the people. There are about 26 people at the TSOS now, and we made arrangements for almost all of them to move to the emergency shelter and then the balance to go into a local motel.”
Patrick explained why the residents of the camp decided to stay in the tent camp.