Amid increased demand, Ohio s domestic-violence shelters hoping for help from state budget Ken Gordon, The Columbus Dispatch © Courtney Hergesheimer/Columbus Dispatch CHOICES assistant Vice President, Sue Villilo, shows the new expansion, March 30, 2021. CHOICES is already expanding its shelter (which opened in 2019) by 24 beds (from 120 to 144) and last year, it had to turn away more than 100 people because it was full.
On it was written “122” the shelter’s occupancy on a recent weekday, as well as the first names of 10 more people expected to arrive that day.
Capacity is 120.
Just down the hall, behind closed doors, a family was sleeping on couches in what normally is a lounge area. It’s one way shelter officials handle the chronic overflow they experience.
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Amid increased demand, Ohio s domestic-violence shelters hoping for help from state budget
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New $25 million Linden Community Center has a little bit of everything Mark Ferenchik, The Columbus Dispatch
The new $25 million Linden Community Center has a little bit of everything, and that s the point.
There s a gleaming and airy basketball court, a fitness room for gymnastics, a 200-meter elevated walking track, a game room with a pool table, a bumper pool table, a ping-pong table, and video game equipment.
But there s also a kitchen where visitors will be able to take cooking classes. An arts and ceramics room. A recording studio with three rooms. A dance studio. A Women, Infants and Children wellness clinic.