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Harbor House in Toms River will reopen in 2024 with a new focus.  

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Ocean County shelter for runaway kids will reopen in 2024  

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A homeless shelter for youth runaways in Ocean County will transition to take families in need. The Harbor House in Tom's River closed at the end of July. And at the time, there were just three people staying there, temporarily losing the shelter. As we started conversations about the homeless in Ocean County where there is no county run shelter, there still is a need for services for homeless youth. And though we won't be providing the shelter, we do want to be at the table for those conversations. We are closer from the standpoint that the dialogue is more, there's more communication, there's more awareness and there have been positive meetings with our county commissioners. It's just time to take that final step. Let's get a facility. Well, the plan is to reopen Harbor House in the early part of 2024 as a homeless family shelter in news twelve's Jim Murdoch will have more on this story later this afternoon.

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