WARMING CENTER IS TOPIC OF NATIONAL PUBLICATION
For Immediate Release: February 17, 2009
Contacts: KEN SHUTTLEWORTH (609) 472-8837

The “warming center” operated by Camden County government on code blue nights has been recognized by the National Association of Counties in its publication, County News, which circulates among thousands of county officials and workers throughout the United States.

The article describes how the warming center in the lobby of the Aletha R. Wright Administration Building in Camden has been open to the homeless on nights when temperatures dip below 20 degrees. The building houses the Camden County Board of Social Services.

“This (“warming center”) is for people, who, for whatever reason, can’t get a space in a shelter,” explained Freeholder Carmen Rodriguez in the article. She led the way towards opening what the article described as a “novel approach to housing the hardcore homeless on the coldest nights of the year.”

NACO focuses the bi-weekly newspaper, with a circulation of 29,000, on issues and actions in Washington, D.C., and throughout the country. The article on the Camden County “warming center” appears in the Feb. 9 edition.

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