On any given day in the Rock Hill area, there are many people who have no safe, secure, consistent place to live.  For that day or that time, they are homeless.  Some are chronically homeless - normally due to drug or alcohol dependence, mental impairment, and/or poverty.  Others are situationally homeless, due to the inability to find affordable housing, loss of job, loss of housing, etc. 

Our community is coming together to develop a comprehensive approach to bringing help and hope to those who struggle with poverty, addiction, and homelessness.  One of the most acute needs of our community arises when the homeless face life threatening cold.  Our community is responsing by providing a warm nightly shelter and food to those who would otherwise not eat and would sleep in doorways, under trucks, under bridges or freeway overpasses, in tents or crude built shelters, or even in dumpsters, seeking respite from the cold and weather. 

The Warming Center opens nightly when the low temperature for the night is to be 38° or less, based upon the forcast at Weather.com for zip code 29730.  The decision on whether to open for a particular night will be made at 5pm on the day before.  Once the decision is made for the next day, the center will open, no matter what the temperature actually is for the next day.  Warming Center guests are provided a warm, safe place to sleep & a good meal.  They also have the opportunity to learn about community services which could benefit them.