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The mission of the Norwalk Emergency Shelter, Inc.
is to provide safe, sanitary shelter care to homeless men, women,
and families; to assist shelter residents in searching for housing,
jobs, counseling and treatment; and to foster residents' growth
toward independence and responsibility.
 The Norwalk Emergency Shelter is located at 4 Merritt Street in
South Norwalk, Connecticut, where it has 95 beds. It provides emergency
shelter for men, women, and families, as well as operates on premises
a breakfast, lunch and dinner Soup Kitchen called the "Manna
House of Hospitality". Through the Manna House soup kitchen,
over 12,000 meals per month. The Shelter's hours are from 5:30 PM
to 9:00 AM for single residents and 24 hours a day for families.
It is open seven days a week. On average 91 people stay at the Shelter
per night, and it is frequently full.
The Shelter is part of a network of services within the community.
Shelter Case Managers interview and work with each resident to help
them search for housing, jobs, job training, and appropriate counseling
and treatment. Over the course of a year, our Case Managers make
hundreds of referrals to city and state social service agencies. |
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The Norwalk Emergency Shelter and the Manna House
of Hospitality are open three hundred sixty five days a year. The
shelter sleeps ninety-five people and offers case management services
to all that stay at the shelter as well as anyone else in the community
in need...
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