New temporary homeless campground in Medford set to open

New temporary homeless campground in Medford set to open

Newswatch 12's leah thompson why this campground provides more than a place to sleep.

This fenced in area might not look like much right now.

Add some more tents, tables, a shaded area and services.

And it can be a new beginning for a lot of new people.

Jason so we are all working together and this is goign to give us an opportunity to do that in a concentrated organized manner.

Chief of police i think this is great.

Because i really believe in the case management model.

The campground will offer people a place to sleep.

And it will also be a starting point for other help.

Rogue it's getting them to engage in the services, one of those services is getting them to sign an application to get into the shelter or the gospel mission.

Leah says "this is an example of what living will look like here at the campground.

There will be 25 of these sites.

There will be a tent to protect them from the sun and a tent for them to sleep in."

Multiple services will be at the campsite each week.

Including the medford gospel mission, rogue gospel the medford including week.

Campsite each be at the services will multiple sleep in."

For them to sun and a tent them from the to protect will be a tent sites.

There 25 of these there will be campground.

Here at the will look like of what living is an example leah says "this gospel mission.

Shelter or the to get into the shelter or the gospel mission.

Leah says "this is an example of what living will look like here at the campground.

There will be 25 of these sites.

There will be a tent to protect them from the sun and a tent for them to sleep in."

Multiple services will be at the campsite each week.

Including the medford gospel mission, rogue retreat, on track and arc.

Cop i like to see people get plugged into services and not just be left out to do their own thing.

When that happens, there in a sense unsupervised they don't necceasrily have resources and so they turn to alternative methods.

Jason in the past, we have waited for those individuals to come to the mission itself.

But this is giving us an opporunity to safley come to a group of individuals that are looking to get out of homelessness.

The campground will be open until september 30th.

The executive director of the rogue retreat says depending on how