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Lynn McMillan (left) and daughter Rachel Young (right) support each other in their independent businesses, A Likely Story and The Living Room. The downtown Colorado Springs shops are located adjacent to one another and are adjoined by a common door.
Courtesy of Lynn McMillan
Photos Courtesy of Lynn McMillan
Low-barrier, winter homeless shelter for single women now open in Stockton [The Record, Stockton, Calif]
Stockton Shelter for the Homeless opened a winter shelter for single women this past week. The new low-barrier accommodations is the first of its kind in Stockton.
The shelter has long offered low-barrier beds to men, meaning they don’t have to pass a drug test to check in for the night, as well as separate medium-barrier accommodations for women and families. But Shelter CEO JoLyn McMillan says they have never been able to offer something like this to single women.
“This is the first for the city and for the shelter,” McMillan said.