Haywood Pathways Center is dedicated to changing lives and helping people get back on their feet, finding employment and being able to move into their own place.
A few months ago, a newly constructed Mom’s and Kids dorm was opened to help address the huge problem of homelessness of children in Haywood County.
From essentially “flipping” a state prison camp into a shelter for the homelessness and disadvantaged in one day to a full service, faith based facility with a men’s dorm, a women’s dorm and a mother’s and children’s dorm in three years has been a “God thing.” This facility exists. Because of the dreams and hopes and desires of a lot of people. Haywood Pathways Center houses 96 neighbors in Haywood county who are in need, provides three meals a day to them and dinner to others, offers counseling and drug intervention and job placement. The Staff works tirelessly on a shoestring budget to provide hope and a pathway from poverty for many. Many residents are employed and finding a way out of a cycle of poverty, breaking that cycle is the only way to solve this massive nationwide problem.
I have been affiliated with Haywood Pathways for 5 years. In that time I have seen personally, men and women with a hopeless future before coming to Pathways. These people were met with love and care. They became assets to the community, broke a cycle of addiction and homelessness, not only for themselves but for their family. For the first time ever moved into their own place. Changing lives for the better is Haywood Pathways