The Bell Family Shelter is operated by Bell Socialization Services. This Program receives funding through the Homeless Assistance Program (HAP) and the Human Services Development Fund (HSDF), programs administered by the York County Human Services Department.
Purpose:
Bell Family Shelter is York County's only 30-day emergency shelter serving homeless families. Bell Family Shelter is a safe, temporary shelter with helpful services that assists families in regaining their independence. Bell Family Shelter's eleven-bedroom facility houses as many as forty people per night, and provides all the basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter.
Many families who need Emergency Shelter are homeless because they have no income, lost a job, or because of poor housing conditions.
Eligibility:
Who is eligible for Emergency Shelter Services?
Homeless Families, as defined below:
Your family is homeless if you:
- Are residing in a group shelter, domestic violence shelter, hotel or motel paid for with public or charitable funds; mental health, drug or alcohol facility, jail or hospital with no place to reside; living in a home, but due to domestic violence need a safe place to reside.
- Have received verification that you are facing foster care placement of your children solely because of lack of adequate housing or need housing to allow reunification with children who are in foster care placement.
- Are living in a “doubled-up” arrangement for six (6) months or less on a temporary basis.
- Are living in a condemned building.
- Are living in housing in which the physical condition presents life and/or health threatening conditions (e.g., having dangerous structural defects or lacking plumbing, heat or utilities).
- Are living on the streets, in cars, doorways, etc
In some situations, Shelter may be provided to single women.