Longer hours, and access to computers are a few of the new features that will be offered at the Safe Harbour Society’s Warming Centre in Red Deer.

The Centre officially opens today and will run from 8am to 8pm serving anyone suffering from homelessness, and helping them turn their lives around.

Director of Operations Trisha Haggarty-Roberts says much like how the Red Deer Regional Hospital serves much of Central Alberta, they’re the hub for homelessness “in essence Safe Harbour’s programs are the homeless programs within Central Alberta so it is right that people are coming here and then we move them along to where they need to be.  Shelters are just a temporary piece, we want to make sure that people are getting into permanent supportive housing”.

Haggarty-Roberts says they’re seeing a lot of new faces at the Centre, but everyone who comes in is determined to find work, and a place to call home.

Alberta Works has supplied the computers so people using the Centre can create resumes.