Life Navigation Center to support homeless population in Bowling Green

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The mayor, along with Life Skills, Room in the Inn and the Salvation Army, joined the Rotary Club meeting Wednesday afternoon for a discussion of the Salvations Army’s Life Navigation Center.

This project marks the first time the community will have multiple nonprofits working out of the same space, a location that will provide showers, laundry and many other resources to the unhoused population.

The Life Navigation Center will be a one-stop-shop located across from the Salvation Army, holding 78 beds and serving meals every day.

Mayor of the City of Bowling Green, Todd Alcott, says, “There’s a better way of giving, and this is our collective of working together to say: ‘what are we doing for this homeless? Where do they go? How do they take care of themselves? Where can they get a meal? Where can they do things like laundry, or get a shower?’ And so, our goal is to get the community, rather than give that day a handout, to give the handout that helps them for life. It’s really teaching them to fish, rather than just giving them the fish for the day.”

More nonprofits are joining the facility, working together toward the goal of getting people to take the next step themselves. The Life Navigation Center is set to open on Aug. 22.