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so at Shelby emergency assistance our mission is to help people in crisis um reach self-sufficiency and we do that by helping people meet their basic needs we
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provide food diapers toiletries um we also can assist with utilities and housing needs as um they come up so we
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serve anybody from Shelby County a lot of folks that we um help are coming from crisis situations they lost a job they
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just had a major medical diagnosis maybe it's a grandmother just gotten custody of her grandchildren uh the family living in generational poverty and they're trying to get out of that
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situation we're really excited for the navigate gives back funding it's going to help us meet uh one of our biggest needs and that is housing dollars so to
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help families that are at risk of becoming homeless to keep them housed and um also we help with some utility needs for families who are seeing
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increased utility um prices