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Bennington providers describe full shelters, encampments and urgent need for outreach funding
Summary
Bennington County advocates told the committee that local shelter capacity is small, encampments are appearing as motel caps are reached, and outreach and program-level funding are essential to track and serve people exiting coordinated entry.
Local providers from Bennington County told the House Human Services Committee that limited shelter space, closed encampments and reduced program capacity are producing visible unsheltered homelessness and complicating the coordinated-entry count.
"We are a 16 bed adult only shelter at 1 of our shelter locations," Carissa Myers, executive director of Bennington County Coalition for the Homeless, told the committee. She said Bennington County has one other family shelter with nine rooms that can house up to 36 family members, and that both locations are routinely full.
Myers described…
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