Just as nighttime temperatures dropped below zero in Taos last week, community advocates and Taos’s faith community leapt into action to stand up an emergency cold weather homeless shelter at First Presbyterian Church.
Catherine Hummel, executive director of DreamTree Project, was ready to start training workers to staff a cold weather shelter inside the former Phil Lovato Senior Citizens Center, where the comprehensive Taos NEST (Navigating Emergency Support Together) center is planned. Safety inspections and building preparation have slowed the pace of opening the center, which will eventually serve as a single destination for a variety of services that cater to housing insecure and homeless folks. Continue reading.
