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Helping Hands and volunteers describe emergency shelter work, urge permanent low-barrier shelter
Summary
Representatives of Helping Hands of Putnam County and Cookeville Community Cares described emergency shelter operations this winter and urged city support for a permanent low-barrier shelter.
During the meeting’s public-comment period Feb. 20, Becca Duncan, director of Helping Hands of Putnam County, and other volunteers described the community-run emergency shelter effort and asked for continued city support and partnership on a permanent low-barrier shelter.
Duncan said the collective effort served more than 100 individuals this season, opened 10 days at Thanksgiving and operated 30 days in January, and planned…
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