Shelter for homeless women to open with federal grant

Staff Report

WARREN

A 12-bed shelter for homeless women with mental-health disorders will open on Youngstown Road in April, thanks to a $750,000 federal grant that will help 25 Trumbull County women.

The one-story building at 1296 Youngstown Road was available to use as a shelter after the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board, formerly Lifelines, closed it last fall.

The Mental Health and Recovery Board, which owns the building, previously used it to house a transitional-living program for men and women with mental-health disorders.

So far, four women have been identified to be placed in the center, said April J. Caraway, Mental Health and Recovery Board executive director.

The facility will be provided to women with a mental-health disorder who are well into their recovery for a substance-abuse problem who are homeless by U.S. Housing and Urban Development standards, said Tammy M. Weaver, chief officer of Coleman Behavioral Health, which will run the facility.

The facility will not have the type of clinical staffing it used to have, only a “monitor,” who might also be a service recipient herself.

For more information, call Weaver at (330) 392-1118.