A longtime Akron agency seeking to do more LGBTQ+ outreach has found an alternative to emergency shelters right in its own neighborhood: local hotels. “There are times when an LGBTQ+ survivor just doesn’t feel comfortable in a shelter,” said Teresa Stafford-Wright, CEO of the Hope and Healing Survivor Resource Center in Akron. “Hotel placements mean that we’re not turning anyone away.”
Author Archives: Ken Schneck
Ken Schneck, Editor of The Buckeye Flame
He received the 2021 Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for the LGBTQ Journalist of the Year from the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. In his spare time, he is a professor of education at Baldwin Wallace University.
