Syracuse, NY – The Samaritan Center serves about 600 meals daily in a church on North State Street. But many of the guests who enter the center need more than just food to get through their day.

Some of them need help getting a driver’s license, a job, or warm clothes for the winter.

“Each meal served represents an individual,” said Mary Beth Frey, the executive director of The Samaritan Center. Those people come to the center with complex needs, she said.

To help bridge those gaps, the center hired two new employees this summer to speak one-on-one with people at the center starting.

The center also expanded to an old storage space next to the church to host these individual meetings with case managers. It’s called the case management annex.

The new space has cubicles, an office and a

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