To provide life saving and life changing low barrier shelter and services for adults in our community. We believe homelessness is an emergency and that shelter is a basic necessity for human beings. We believe that only when this basic necessity is provided, do human beings have the ability to recover from homelessness.

ESNKY opened its doors for the first time in the winter of 2008 as the region’s only cold weather shelter for adults. In the summer of 2011, we began providing shelter during the warmer months for men who are working towards achieving housing, income and improvement of health. In 2013, we added a daytime shower & laundry program for adults that were unwilling or unable to access shelter to meet the immediate hygiene needs. We were started by a group of concerned citizens, elected officials, and business owners who wanted to ensure that our most vulnerable population had a place to go to during our coldest weather.