Correction: Services, Not Shelter, to Move to Jeffco School

Correction to https://lakewoodinformer.com/2023/12/29/lakewood-to-propose-a-homeless-shelter-in-public-school-building/

An unnamed, closed Jefferson County school may act as a new location for the Jeffco Action Center rather than as a shelter. The Action Center offers hardship services and is valuable resource for many unhoused. The move would also increase housing for the homeless. Plans are not final, but discussions have been started. More details have not been brought before Council yet.

Per City Manager Hodgson, December 18 City Council meeting, “We recently worked with RecoveryWorks… and opened the first phase of the Navigation Center. Now we are talking about a partnership with the Action Center to move them [Action Center – not Navigation Center] to one of the schools that’s been closed…. then Lakewood would have a presence in the existing two buildings of the Action Center to complete the navigation concept and allow to for more housing for our homeless population….”