Cold Weather Shelters To Open Tonight, Clearwater

Clearwater FL

01 December, 2020

9:34 AM

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Press release from the Pinellas County Government: Dec. 1, 2020 The Pinellas County Homeless Leadership Alliance and Learning Empowered will open cold weather shelters tonight, Tuesday, Dec. 1. The National Weather Service forecasts low temperatures of near 40 degrees in Pinellas County early Wednesday. Most of the shelters will open between 6 to 6:30 p.m. and accept guests all night. They will close at 6 a.m. (Shelters with different hours are noted below.) Guests will be provided a warm, safe place to spend the night. They will be advised if the shelters will be open additional nights. The following shelters will be available to adults: Clearwater Dr. Martin Luther King Neighborhood Center 1201 Douglas Ave. Clearwater, 33755 Capacity: 50-60 Note: this is a one-time only shelter location for Clearwater. Hours are 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. St. Petersburg Northwest Presbyterian Church 6330 54th Ave. N. St. Petersburg, 33706 (727) 544-4551 Capacity: 50 Salvation Army 1400 4th Street S. St. Petersburg, 33705 Phone: (727) 822-4954 Capacity: 25 Hours are 7 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. The Turning Point 1810 5th Avenue N. St. Petersburg, 33713 (727) 823-7811 Capacity: 12 Pinellas Park Boys and Girls Club of the Suncoast in Pinellas Park 7790 61st Street N Pinellas Park, 33781 Phone (727) 547-5437 Capacity: 50 Tarpon Springs Boys and Girls Club of Tarpon Springs 111 W Lime Street Tarpon Springs, 34689 Phone: (727) 937-6837 Capacity: 30-35 Families with Children Families with children will be placed in family shelters on cold nights, if space is available. Families should call 2-1-1, Tampa Bay Cares, Inc., for information about family shelters. Learning Empowered Learning Empowered was formerly known as United Methodist Cooperative Ministries/Suncoast, Inc. The organization is dedicated to using the inherent intelligence, passion and drive in its clients and supporters to change the world. This press release was produced by the Pinellas County Government. The views expressed here are the author's own.