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Marion Shelter Program
365 E. Fairground Street
Marion, OH 43302
(740) 387-4550
e-Mail: cbulick@yahoo.com
website:www.themarionshelter.com
Contact:
- Chuck Bulick, Executive Director
What it does:
Provides emergency shelter and food for homeless individuals and families. Serves about 25 to 30 people a day,
but is not a "flop-house." The difference between what the Marion Shelter Program and traditional homeless
facilities provide is profound. In a residential neighborhood, it looks like any other home on the street. It's
not a warehouse with cots, but a home with rooms, beds, a kitchen, and a living room. There are requirements that
residents stay no more than 90 days, look for work daily, and save money they earn to get them back into their
own permanent housing.
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Living the American nightmare
Hundreds of Union County families on the brink of homelessness
Lack of affordable housing a root cause of homeless in Union County
14 April 2008
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Besides giving homeless people a place to stay and food to eat, the shelter provides a structured
environment to learn social skills, job skills, and money management skills. A new Day Program at the shelter allows
residents to access more than 12,000 educational lessons through computers and software that all but tests users
for their Graduate Equivalence Degree.
The Marion Shelter Program also operates the Journey House, an additional facility that serves
as a transitional-housing program for former shelter residents who have found employment.
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Mark Lovett, Director of the Marion Shelter Program, welcomes
Union County homeless with open arms.
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--Fast Facts:
- A partner with United Way on the Union County Housing Coalition.
- With no homeless shelter in Union County, this facility, which serves a 14-county region,
is the best choice for Union County residents in need of emergency shelter.
- The United Way of Union County partnered with the Marion Shelter Program in 2003 and 2004,
awarding grants totaling $9,484 to cover the cost of housing Union County residents there.
- 80% of those who use the shelter one time find permanent housing and do not access the shelter
a second time.
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