This Trinity Center evening winter shelter is set to operate from Dec. 14 through March 31, 2021, with this week’s approval of a license for the Walnut Creek-based nonprofit to use the National Guard armory near Civic Park.
Trinity Center is a daytime non-residential program providing case management, home and job referral services, two meals a day, clothing, non-perishable food, and access to telephone and mail for people who are either homeless or at risk of losing their homes. Those who receive services are vetted first, and are considered “members.”
The center does not operate an overnight shelter most of the year, but has done so each of the past five winters, the last four at the armory building.
The winter program has typically hosted 20 to 30 people each night. But that could change given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Required social distancing may cut that number, Trinity officials said.
Other changes are likely, including not allowing volunteers to help, increasing cleaning at the armory and adjusting the transportation of clients to and from the shelter each night, according to a city staff report.
The evening winter shelter is designed to give homeless people living in camps, under bridges, along creek banks and in cars in the Walnut Creek area protection from cold and wet winter weather.
Broadway plaza has good capacity. I recommend they house overflow there.
Hahaha! Agree!
Simply untrue.
@Aunt Barbara, I rarely agree with you, but couldn’t agree more that the homeless are the most entitled people that come to that shopping center. Joan is mentally ill, and needs to not be allowed to come back. I will continue to call Walnut Creek’s finest when the homeless are being belligerent, and harassing people that are hanging out or trying to eat after purchasing items there and not just loitering.
I’ll be sure to snap a photo tomorrow when I’m at Kinder’s for all the disbelieving parents who let their crap kids take over the center witg scooters.