Almost a year removed from their doors shutting and services ending, Gary Gullone, HRC Board Director, and Stephanie Coonce, say it was the culmination of a spiral downwards thanks to a number of factors.

 

 

According to Gullone, despite having to shut the doors after staff layoffs, the clients of HRC were minimally impacted. He explains many outside providers stepped up to allow their clients to stay in the area and continue to get services.

 

 

Encore Thrift store never closed their doors, contrary to the opinion of the public. Coonce says they remained open, however, they suspended services to their client workers. She says that was short lived and then they got them back, fulfilling the mission of the thrift store.

 

 

The process of HRC shutting it's doors and stopping services for a short time was traumatic. That is how Coonce describes the process and explains it took a group of individuals very routine based, out of a routine some had for many years.

 

 

Gullone calls HRC blessed that many, many entities stepped up to take on their clients and get them the services they needed.

 

Tomorrow on Regional Radio News, we'll outline where HRC stands now financially and with their clients and what the future holds for the agency.