Open house Friday

YOUNGSTOWN — Greater Youngstown Point is having an open house from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday at the Arlington Heights Recreational Facility, 801 Park Ave.

The purpose is to make the community aware of the agency’s programs and services, with a focus on Project Reunite-Ohio, a collaborative program to help ex-criminal offenders re-integrate with their families and communities, said Michael James, executive director.

The overall mission of Greater Youngstown Point is to provide a safe, decent and sanitary daytime shelter for the homeless. The primary goals of Project Reunite-Ohio are to reduce criminal behavior and recidivism; provide diversion for children of ex-offenders, and to enhance and solidify the supportive capacity of ex-offenders’ families.