PUYALLUP, WA — There is a new resource for those experiencing homelessness in Pierce County, and it has hit the streets running.
Friday at the South Hill Baptist Church, the New Hope Resource Center unveiled their new Mobile Resources Response Team — a mobile program that delivers necessary sanitation services straight to the people who need them most.
Here's how the program works. Three times a week, the Mobile Resources Response team will be dispatched to local churches or other sties across east Pierce County. The team brings with them a mobile shower trailer with three shower stalls, to help those in need clean off, and a mobile laundry trailer carrying four washer-dryers, to help them clean their clothes as well. The program was sponsored in part by Intellihot, a water heating manufacturer who donated tankless water heaters to aid in the creation of the mobile unit.
The New Hope Resource Center says the team will also offer visitors food kits, donated clothes and supplies, and try to connect them with additional resources and help them find more permanent housing.
Organizers say they believe the program will be especially helpful now, with the pandemic shutting down many basic sanitation services that homeless residents needed to keep clean and healthy.
"We're proud to be offering our tankless technology to help New Hope bring important health and hygiene services to the homeless in order to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19," said Intellihot CEO Sri Deivasigamani.
"A centralized building where large numbers of people congregate is no longer safe or feasible," said Cheryl Borden, President of Homeward Bound, parent nonprofit of New Hope Resource Center. "We needed to mobilize our services and to provide them throughout the region to smaller groups, closer to where they are to reduce congregating and enhance safe access to services for individuals and volunteers."
Now that the program has been launched, New Hope says they intend to expand services to include portable bathrooms, a handwashing station, and hopefully a health care professional on-site to perform immunizations and coronavirus tests.
September 29, 2020 at 04:00AM
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