COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — A Colorado Springs organization that helps homeless youth needs some to remodel its building. The Place is changing its emergency shelter into a drop-in center.
This is being done because of budget cuts and to stream line their services better. Now, they are asking for volunteers to help them with the transformation.
The drop-in center will have resources to help out homeless youth, which include the following:
more case managers
washing machines
computer labs
The center, however, will not be a place to sleep like an emergency shelter is.
"As our youth are at a space where they're resilient, they have the ability to be impacted by the services that we provide," said Jolie Nesmith with The Place. "We can get them off the streets and get them into educ