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Presentation on the Operation of The Navigation Center
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Presented By: Nate Riddle, Executive Director, Open Doors
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This presentation will provide an overview of the planned operations of The Navigation Center by Open Doors. The City selected Open Doors to operate the facility following a competitive procurement process. Since 2007, Open Doors has provided shelter, compassionate support, and access to services for those experiencing homelessness in the Harrisonburg - Rockingham community. A dynamic public-private partnership, the Navigation Center will be a place of transition for our community’s unhoused adults, and a center for critical health and human services for the entire community we serve. Opening of this facility will fill a critical gap in our local housing continuum, which until this point lacked a year-round low-barrier emergency shelter for adults.