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Keystone Mission Homeless Shelter for Males to open in Wilkes-Barre

Keystone Mission’s 15-Bed Male Transformation Center in Wilkes-Barre will open on July 20.

The center at 290 Parkview Circle will be one of the only male homeless “shelters” in the area. The state-of-the-art facility will take in 10 to 15 men off the streets and bring them into safe housing and sustainable programming.

Keystone Mission, a local faith-based nonprofit, partnered with more than a dozen community agencies and businesses to create the center.

Residents welcomed into the program will learn the importance of self-care, life skills, job-readiness and spiritual training, according to Keystone Mission.

Kat Bolus is an Emmy-award-winning journalist who has spent over a decade covering local news in Northeast Pennsylvania. She joined the WVIA News team in 2022. Bolus can be found in Penns Wood’s, near our state's waterways and in communities around the region. Her reporting also focuses on local environmental issues.

You can email Kat at katbolus@wvia.org