500 Beds - a Reality!

 Charlotte is experiencing a homelessness crisis. More people are becoming homeless, remaining homeless longer, and struggling to find shelter. There are well over 6,000 homeless citizens in Charlotte on any given day and most of them are men. Charlotte has long struggled to provide enough emergency shelter for men to meet the growing demands.   A few months ago, the Men’s Shelter of Charlotte declared our intention to meet this growing need by providing 500 beds of shelter year round.  We did so because it’s part of our mission of helping homeless men and aligns with the three goals our agency publically committed to this past October:

 

1.    Identifying and filling services gaps

2.    Ensuring an adequate supply of emergency shelter beds

3.    Offering a continuum of supportive services that help men move beyond homelessness.

 

Guests listen at the Community Breakfast on Tuesday, March 23rd, as Carson Dean announced that our Statesville Avenue Campus will remain open all year.  Along with our Tryon Street Campus, which already operates year round, we will now be providing 500 beds of shelter for homeless men in our community every night, all year!

 

 

 

 

 

Also, at the Community Breakfast Alice Harrison, Jim Kelley and Bob Bishop were recognized as Heroes for the Homeless.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Magic of the Merger

On October 1, 2009, the Emergency Winter Shelter and Uptown Shelter merged to become Men’s Shelter of Charlotte. Our goal is to be the safety net for homeless men by identifying and filling service gaps, ensuring an adequate supply of emergency shelter beds, and offering a continuum of supportive services that help men move beyond homelessness.
 


To learn more about our past and our future, click on these links:  past    future

 

View at the Statesville Ave Campus as we celebrated the beginning of a new vision for helping homeless men.

 

The following positions are currently available:

Intake Services Part-time Relief Staff

remains open until positions filled

full announcement available here

 

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