ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A new center designed to help connect people experiencing homelessness to services is up and running in the former Bean’s Café building in Anchorage. Theopened its doors to clients about three weeks ago, according to director David Rittenberg of Catholic Social Services.
“I would say, first and foremost, for housing assistance,” said Rittenberg. “So whether it’s help searching for vacancies, or help filling out applications, those types of things.”“It’s the first of its kind in Anchorage where multiple providers are all under one roof and people are able to access multiple services in one place in a permanent location,” he said.
“We have about 30 partners that are interested in coming down,” he said. “Right now, about half of them have been providing services here.”