Podcast: Stone On The Challenges Of Homeless People During The Pandemic

From InDepth NH:

By ROGER WOOD, InDepthNH.org

Roger Wood delves into the issue of helping the homeless in NewHampshire with Martha Stone, executive director of Crossroads House in Portsmouth. She talks about the challenges of providing aid during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stone also speaks on partnerships developed with hotels and nonprofits in the region to take in or provide food for those people who can’t be housed there. And she speaks of the hazards faced by homelessness during the harsh winter.

Martha Stone is the Executive Director of Cross Roads House where sheis responsible for overseeing shelter operations, programming, marketing, fundraising, and financial management of the non-profit organization. Martha joined the staff of Cross Roads House, a 100+bed homeless shelter, in 2004 as the Development Director and waspromoted to Executive Director in 2013.

In her role as the Development Director she oversaw and executed a successful $5 million capital campaign to design and construct a new shelter facility.

As the largest shelter in the Seacoast region, Cross Roads House provides emergency and transitional shelter and services for individual adults and families. She works closely with her board of directors to provide services to this vulnerable population and also enjoys advocacy work for homeless and housing related issues.

Roger Wood in his home studio in Portsmouth.

Roger Wood bio

Roger Wood is an award winning radio, newspaper and televisionjournalist, with over 40 years of experience in the media. Roger hasspent his entire professional career in New Hampshire. He has producednews and special feature reports for InDepthNH, New Hampshire PublicRadio, NPR, and other Public and commercial radio stations. He alsoproduced spot news for CBS Radio.

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This story was originally published by InDepth NH.