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(KSL News) Instead of sleeping on the streets, homeless teen girls now have somewhere they can go when the temperatures get below zero.
The Volunteers of America opened an emergency overflow shelter last night that can sleep up to 10 homeless girls.
"These are kids who do not want to go to the shelter for their own personal reasons, but also because they don't trust any sort of system," explained Teresa Stocks, with the Homeless Youth Resource Center.
The teens can get a ride to the shelter in Midvale by going to the Homeless Youth Drop-In Center at 6:30 each night. At the center they can eat, shower and stay warm. Then after breakfast each morning, they'll get TRAX tokens for transportation.
Funding from the United Way of Salt Lake made it possible to open the emergency shelter.
