Salinas, CA Dorothy's Place In Need Of Funding To Help Homeless Senior Women
by Richard Kuehn on 07/05/13
View From A Nonprofit Serving Carmel, Carmel Valley, Gonzalez,
Greenfield, King City, Marina, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Salinas,
Seaside And Soledad California
Women Alive! Emergency Shelter is
in the process of a badly needed fundraising period to try to improve the
facilities at Dorothy's Place. It's a
great cause. The shelter serves about
190 women per year on average, almost all of them senior citizens. They
come in at 7:00 p.m., get a hot meal, and then are allowed to spend the night,
leaving at 6:00 in the morning.
Management at Dorothy's Place is hoping that with new funding, they will
have more resources so that they can spend extra time with these seniors,
counseling them on mental health services.
They would also like to improve the facility along with adding more
staff. I hope they are successful; this
is a much needed resource on the Monterey Peninsula. To find out how you can help, go to http://www.dorothysplace.org/.
Please note that this blog reflects my
personal opinion and may or may not reflect the opinion of Hands to Help
Seniors and the individual members comprising the Board of Governors.