Because of community complaints, city officials also dismissed a proposal to convert a former nursing home and mental health center on Spring Road into an emergency family shelter.

Northern Virginia Family Services' past grants have gone to support an emergency family shelter and a community and childhood center in Manassas.

It houses the West Philadelphia ACES Charter School, Pennsylvania Hospital's Mill Creek School, Philadelphia Health Management Corporation's Adolescent Residential Treatment Center, and a Traveler's Aid's emergency family shelter.

THE eight women who live with their children in the Salvation Army's Emergency Family Shelter in Atlantic City sat around a long table in the shelter's dining room after lunch last Monday and fretted about what to make for dinner on Mother's Day.