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NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Kimberly George, 423-308-7715 or 423-503-1801, Director of Marketing & Development
Date: January 12, 2010
Chattanooga Salvation Army Receives $15,000 Grant for Learning Center from Comcast of Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN – The Chattanooga Salvation Army announces a $15,000 grant award from Comcast Communications will be presented at the Salvation Army's Women and Family Shelter and Men's Transitional Shelter on Wednesday, January 13, 2009 at 1:15 PM at 800 McCallie Avenue. The grant is being awarded for a Learning & Resource Center for the families and women in the new shelter program.
"What an incredible opportunity this is to better serve the homeless families, women and men in our community," said Major Jim Lawrence, Chattanooga Area Commander. "We are so blessed to have such a great partner in Comcast to make this much needed Center a reality when it's needed most."
The construction of the Learning & Resource Center will allow a dedicated location in the shelter for study and personal growth. Besides the need for safe shelter, the homeless women and families have need of the education, life-skills and work-skills that will allow them to qualify for jobs and find permanent housing.
A special emphasis is being placed on the growth and study needs of the children of the families in the program. The new Resource & Learning Center will include tables and chairs, study carrels, books and magazines, computers and online research/study capabilities.
The Salvation Army is refurbishing the 800 McCallie Avenue Shelter in order to offer a total of six family rooms and a dormitory room for six individual women. The Salvation Army in Chattanooga has long managed an emergency shelter for individual women and women with children, but this transitional shelter program with an emphasis on training for jobs and finding housing is a new endeavor.
The space to be refurbished is currently being used for emergency shelter for women. In addition, another area of the shelter is housing up to twenty-seven men in a similar transitional program. The goal of the Transitional Shelter Programs for chronically homeless families and individual women and men is stability that is achieved through attaining security by completing job training and literacy/educational courses, securing full-time employment and entering into permanent housing.
For more information on the Comcast Award Presentation, please contact Kimberly George, Director of Marketing and Development at 423-756-1023.
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