About Us

Mission Statement
To provide life saving and life changing low barrier shelter and services for adults in our community.

Vision Statement
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.

History
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.

On February 14, 2022, we opened the doors to our brand-new state-of-the-art facility with 68 beds, a Daytime Navigation Center for showers, laundry, cell phone charging stations, onsite medical clinic and community partner rooms.  We operate year-round emergency shelter and housing work program beds for men, year-round shower & laundry program for men and women and the emergency cold shelter from November-March for adult men and women.

Meet the Staff

Kim M. Webb

Executive Director  

kim.webb@esnky.net

Leadership Team

Chris Vier, Operations Manager, chris.vier@esnky.net

Ruslyn Case-Compton, Office Manager, ruslyn.case-compton@esnky.net

Curtis Edwards, Program Supervisor, curtis.edwards@esnky.net

Zak Draznin, Development Manager zak.draznin@esnky.net

Administration

Volunteer Coordinator, Maya Mintu, maya.mintu@esnky.net

2023-2024 Student Interns: If you are interested in a student internship, please email info@esnky.net with Internship in subject line. Please let us know what field you are interested in as we are looking for students in marketing, social media, social work, public health and business.