Fourth and Hope's adult emergency shelter recently experienced a COVID outbreak in February. After notifying Yolo County Public Health, the first round of testing was done including the immediate implementation of additional health and safety measures. After the second...

By JIM SMITH | [email protected] | Woodland Daily Democrat December 23, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.   If all goes well, then the first of dozens of Woodland’s homeless residents will be moving into the new East Beamer Street shelter during coming weeks, making for a belated...

By WOODLAND DAILY DEMOCRAT | December 18, 2020 at 1:27 a.m.   On the same night that Woodland’s City Council was ratifying the mechanics of a new homeless shelter, Mayor Rich Lansburgh also called for consideration of a “five-point plan” to end homelessness promoted...

By JIM SMITH | [email protected] | Woodland Daily Democrat PUBLISHED: December 16, 2020 at 12:06 p.m. | UPDATED: December 16, 2020 at 3:31 p.m.   The housing is in place as is a mobile kitchen, restrooms and laundry. Now, all that’s needed is power and furnishing for a one-stop...

By WOODLAND DAILY DEMOCRAT | November 25, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.   Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig has proposed plan to reduce homelessness, which his office called “an exploding humanitarian crisis affecting almost every community in California.” “Too many people suffering from severe mental...

By CARLOS GUERRERO | [email protected] | PUBLISHED: November 11, 2020 at 11:42 a.m. | UPDATED: November 11, 2020 at 11:46 a.m.   The Woodland Police Department continued its Community Safety Conversations featuring Police Chief Derrek Kaff, where he, alongside a panel, listened and answered questions from viewers about homelessness. Held...

By ELIZABETH KALFSBEEK | PUBLISHED: October 19, 2012 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 30, 2018 at 12:00 a.m. Yolo Wayfarer Center has new name, but the same mission. Mission officials unveiled the organization's new brand, Fourth & Hope: A mission to change lives, Wednesday night. Community members...