Local News in Brief : Grant for Women’s Shelter

The 1736 Family Crisis Center, based in Hermosa Beach, recently received a $35,000 grant from the Greater Los Angeles Partnership for the Homeless to provide on-going help to homeless, abused women and their children.

“This is a large grant for us,” said Carol Adelkoff, executive director of the 1736 Center. “It means a great deal to us.”

The nonprofit center operates three shelters in the South Bay, providing counseling and shelter to battered women and their children as well as to runaways and homeless adolescents. The 24-hour hot line for the 1736 Family Crisis Center is 379-3620.

The grant will help fund the Second Step Shelter, which provides long-term counseling and shelter to abused women and their children for up to six months. Most shelters for abused women provide housing for only 30 days, Adelkoff said.

She estimated that the 1736 Center provides services to about 10,000 people a year and operates on a $1.1-million annual budget. The Second Step Shelter, which was set up last July, can house 15 people at a time and operates on an estimated $420,000 yearly budget, she said.

The Partnership for the Homeless is a nonprofit organization formed in 1986 by business and community leaders to raise and distribute money to help the homeless, especially with long-term needs.