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Coastal Center for Hope and Healing reports rising demand, announces donated transitional home
Summary
The Coastal Center for Hope and Healing told Craven County commissioners it handled hundreds to thousands of crisis calls and shelter nights in the past year and has received a donated, move-in-ready house in the New Bern area to serve as transitional housing called Courtney's Home for Hope; staff said they hope to open it by April.
Donnie Brooks, president of the board of the Coastal Center for Hope and Healing, briefed the board on rising service demand and announced a donated, move-in-ready house in the New Bern area that the shelter plans to use as transitional housing, to be called Courtney's Home for Hope.
Brooks gave counts intended to demonstrate service volume: he said the shelter answered roughly 1,600 calls in the fiscal year and…
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