CLEVELAND – We have an important follow-up, regarding women and children in crisis in Cleveland. The City Mission operates an emergency overflow shelter because all the family shelters in the city are currently full. It opened in September 2016. The first month they provided 71 nights of sleep for women and children. Fast forward to October 2017, […]
DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Officials with the City Mission in Cleveland say they’ve started their “zero turn away” policy. If it is 20 degrees or lower — or feels that temperature with the wind chill — they do not turn people away. They have cots, air mattresses, pillows, and blankets ready for extra people […]