The big, new homeless center

Badly needed! It's across from a health clinic. This facility will have a detox center and other services. It also takes people out of the center of downtown, where the current shelter is. Alcohol and drugs aren't allowed in the homeless shelter, so it might give less incentive to partake in substances with the homeless people who stay around Main St. and the park.

Families also come to eat at the Mission. There were approximately 500 homeless people in the Klamath Falls area in 2015, but I could not find statistics for 2016 or 2017. Only about half of the homeless accept help other than meals.

This was all made possible with cooperation and funding by the Klamath Falls Gospel Mission, Klamath Works and Sky Lakes Medical Center. The Gospel Mission is very similar to the Salvation Army. To participate, people have to attend church and Bible study classes. Some refuse to do this, so continue to live outside as is their right. But, if the Bible helps some get their lives back in order it's certainly fine with me.