by Claudia Sahm California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest attempt to reduce homelessness by forcing those who are living on the streets and experiencing mental health issues or a substance use disorder into institutional treatment is bound to fail. It’s not that the $6.3 billion in ...
Bartlett Housing Solutions, the city’s leading organization for homeless services, announced Thursday that it will increase bed capacity by 12 beds to provide additional shelter resources for those who are experiencing homelessness in Morgantown. As the temperatures begin to drop and ...
In this special edition of “The Good, the Bad and the Stupid,” we will honor a number of bills that could have improved West Virginia for the better but are now officially dead. All the bills we mentioned Wednesday saw no movement on cross-over day, and all have died in ...
Thanks for making MLK Day event a success On behalf of the Community Coalition for Social Justice, I want to thank everyone who made our 17th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Jan. 16 a success. We could not do this without the financial support of the City of Morgantown. We ...
In collaboration with the West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness, Health Right will coordinate a street count of individuals experiencing homelessness beginning at 4 p.m. Jan. 25 until 3:59 p.m. Jan. 26. During this 24-hour period, volunteers and local service agency staff will ...
When frigid temperatures struck Morgantown over the Christmas weekend, organizations and volunteer groups struggled to find accommodations for 110 people who are homeless. Sixty people hunkered down in the emergency warming shelter; another 20 had been placed in hotel rooms; and 30 waited out ...