{"id":101225,"date":"2025-12-19T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101225\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:20:08","slug":"fscs-sacramento-county-warming-center-is-helping-unhoused-people-withstand-the-winter-but-needs-more-supplies-donated-sacramento-news-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101225\/","title":{"rendered":"FSC’s Sacramento County warming center is helping unhoused people withstand the winter, but needs more supplies donated \u2022 Sacramento News & Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 24 days of a chilly, bone-shuddering fog covering Sacramento, locals living outdoors are now bracing for a week of severe rainstorms. According to media reports, the Sacramento Valley has already been experiencing an unusually cold December. However, judging by recent history<\/a>, the looming downpours present a worse threat<\/a> to those sleeping on the streets. \u00a0<\/p>\n

At the beginning of December, First Step Communities and Sacramento County opened a large weather respite center on Branch Center Road to help people find safety. The location serves up to a hundred people, allowing them to shower and rest in a secured, comfortable place. The center also has outreach workers who are helping unhoused individual transition into long-term shelter or housing. The operation plans to run at least until January 5, but needs more supplies donated from the public to make that work.<\/p>\n

Kayley Glaspell, a community information specialist for First Steps, said that the center especially needs gently used winter clothing, especially men\u2019s clothing, as well as hygiene items, towels, blankets and dog food. The only type of donation that must be brand new is underwear.<\/p>\n

Glaspell added that, for people who want to donate any or all of those items, staff is present\u00a0 24-hours a day at the center at 4000 Brach Center Road, Sacramento, to accept them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe need is pretty massive,\u201d Glaspell said. \u201cPeople are coming in with really nothing. We\u2019re trying to meet lots of needs here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 24 days of a chilly, bone-shuddering fog covering Sacramento, locals living outdoors are now bracing for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[55103,55104,121,55105,123,122],"class_list":["post-101225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-first-steps-communities","tag-homelessness-in-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county-warming-center-for-the-unhoused","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}