Arlington Life Shelter Expands Resources for Residents
In 1987, three churches in Arlington got together to form a homeless shelter that would go on to serve the local homeless population for the next thirty-five years and counting. Stephanie Melchert, Executive Director of what is now called Arlington Life Shelter, was involved decades before she would ever come to work at the shelter itself. We met with her in the computer lab of the shelter, donated by the Dallas Mavs Foundation, to talk about not only her history with the shelter, but the history of the shelter itself.