Main Link Peer Support Center - Extreme Weather Warming Center
The Warming Center will be open if the temperature falls below 20 degrees with excessive wind chill, or if the snow fall prediction is over 10 inches. Soup, sleeping bags, and hot beverages would be available. Volunteers from the various agencies and churches would man the Center, all having criminal background and child abuse clearances. Staffing will be either two males or a male and female. Local police will be asked to swing by during the evening.
Related Services
Physical Address
17 Pine Street, Towanda, PA 18848
Hours
When warming shelter is triggered to be open: 7:00pm to 7:00am
Voice
Application process
Walk in when shelter is open. As soon as the temperature rises, or snow is under control the above organizations will be notified that the Warming Center is closed.
Fee
Services free of charge.
Eligibility
A) Motorists that are stranded on our roads and State and Local police can direct them or bring them to the center to be warm as they coordinate how to get their vehicles towed or plowed out. They can also charge their phones. B) Residents that do not have heat because of shut offs and need to be in the warm. C) The Homeless population that wants to get out of the snow or cold temperature.
Service area
Bradford, PA
Agency info
Main Link Peer Support Center
Provides peer support, guidance, recreation, advocacy and referrals to mental health services for mental health consumers.