They were impressed and interested in helping it expand.Ĭraig Tribken, director of mission advancement at CASS, said these partnerships are key because creating a shelter without neighborhood support is not possible. Guardado worked to bring the CASS shelter to District 5 after she and some constituents toured the temporary shelter off State Route 51. 16, Guardado and Lisa Glow, CEO of CASS, signed a “good neighbor agreement,” which expresses community support for the shelter and outlines rules the shelter and its residents must follow. Project Haven 2 represents a partnership between the neighborhood and organizations fighting homelessness. (Photo by Balin Overstolz-McNair/Cronkite News) Neighborhood support critical for success Plans include constructing a new building on the property, fencing and space for 136 single-occupancy rooms. Project Haven 2 will require significant renovations to the Phoenix Inn. “I can’t say 100% that it’s worked, my sense of humor isn’t quite back. “My goal there was to keep to myself and do what I need to do to get out of it and not lose my identity,” he said. During those months, caseworkers helped him collect essential documents and eventually get his own place. Markel, now 57, was at the shelter for four months before he once again could support himself. “It sounds stupid, but it made me feel like a human being, all over again,” he said of Project Haven. The Project Haven model was tested at a CASS shelter near Northern Avenue and State Route 51, where John Markel lived in 2020 after losing his restaurant-management job and landing on the streets. One new strategy is the creation of shelters like Project Haven: Small and tailored to a specific need. In September, Maricopa County officials announced federal COVID-19 relief funds would offer new opportunities in their “housing first” approach to ending homelessness.
That led to the Project Haven 2 partnership between CASS and Phoenix. “We also learned that our seniors were the highest number of folks that were starting to experience homelessness.”
“The folks that were being hit the hardest at that point were our seniors,” said Phoenix Councilwoman Betty Guardado, whose District 5 is home to the project. (Photo by Balin Overstolz-McNair/Cronkite News) Spellmans is a neighborhood leader involved in the creation of Project Haven 2, which is under construction south of Metrocenter. Betty Guardado, Lisa Glow and Jeff Spellmans sign the “good neighbor agreement” on Nov.
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