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By Taylor Ann Bradford Staff Writer Dec 28, 2020
When the coronavirus pandemic hit stateside, it affected everyone.
Businesses closed, schools shut down, and services for those in need became harder to maintain with limited staff and new regulations.
For Beverly-based nonprofit Family Promise, which provides shelter, food, and job support for homeless families, the tightening restrictions and risk of contamination caused them to lose their rotational emergency shelter â a network of community partners that house families with children in different locations each week.
Enter the YMCA of the North Shore.
With a three-bedroom apartment available, the YMCA donated the space to Family Promise in order to welcome two new families into its program.