Bad Strategy. There will be consequences for Lansing community.....
The Lansing emergency shelter, which specializes in housing those with mental illness, will close its doors June 20.
Picciano, who works part time at the shelter and is doing well now, hopes to help find new funding to reopen the doors. Four remaining residents are scheduled to move to other shelters by Monday.
The nine-bed shelter has been operated by Justice in Mental Health Organization, a consumer advocacy group run by those with mental illness.
The 17-year-old program was notified May 20 that its $150,000 annual grant from Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton, Ingham Counties is ending. The authority is making a new round of reductions based on changes in state funding.