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Niagara Falls, NY - Congressman Brian Higgins gets a tour of Pinnacle Community Services from Executive Director Laura Pennington Gawel, M.A. during a visit where he announced over $1.22 million in federal funding dedicated to helping homeless teens and young adults in Niagara County during a visit to Pinnacle Community Services in Niagara Falls.


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Higgins to Announce Over $1.22 Million in Federal Funding Dedicated to Helping Homeless Teens & Young Adults in Niagara County
Community Missions & Pinnacle Community Services Win Awards to Lead Community Effort

Who:
Congressman Brian Higgins
City of Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino
Robyn L. Krueger, President & CEO of Community Missions of Niagara Frontier, Inc.
Laura Pennington Gawel, M.A., President & CEO of Pinnacle Community Services
Dale Zuchlewski, Executive Director of the Homeless Alliance of WNY
Additional Community Partners

What:
Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-26) and City of Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino will join Pinnacle Community Services, Community Missions of Niagara Frontier, the Homeless Alliance of Western New York and other community partners to announce over $1.22 million and a coordinated community effort to address youth homelessness in Niagara County.

A collection of local partners including a Youth Action Board spent months developing a Coordinated Community Plan for Ending Youth Homelessness. The plan notes approximately 750 unaccompanied and parenting youth in the region experience homelessness annually and another 1,600 are at risk of becoming homeless.

Where:
Pinnacle Community Services
1522 Main Street, Niagara Falls

When:
1:00pm – Wednesday, October 28, 2020

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Theresa Kennedy
Communications Director
Rep. Brian Higgins
716-852-3501 (office)
716-803-4281 (cell)
Theresa.Kennedy@mail.house.gov