ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — As the extreme cold approaches, more people need a warm place to stay at night and retreat to during the day. 

What You Need To Know

  • Warm Blessings and Room In the Inn in Hardin County are seeing the direct affects of the cold weather

  • County leaders and community members came together to create an emergency plan

  • Warm Blessings and Room In the Inn work together to provide warm shelter for anyone that might need it in Hardin County

Warm Blessings and Room in the Inn, two organizations in Hardin County which provide shelter, are seeing more and more people need resources. They are now at capacity and have to turn people away. 

“We hit capacity this past weekend, and you know, we start Dec. 1, so it was shocking to us that we hit capacity so quickly,” Dawn Cash, the executive director of Warm Blessings, said. 

There was no plan for those they had to send away until Wednesday, when county leaders and community members came together to create an emergency plan. “We know it’s going to be cold, and so we needed a place, with us being at capacity to be able to refer people to, so they came together and came up with a plan,” Cash said.  

Warm Blessings will refer the people they can not take in to a number that corresponds with the cities of Elizabethtown, Vinegrove or Radcliff, and connects them with help for finding some place for shelter.

“Right now, the dining room is bustling, as you can see. And right now, 25 is really the maximum that we are able to hold at this point,” Cash said. 

Warm Blessings and Room In the Inn work together to provide warm shelter for anyone that might need it in Hardin County. For more information on Warm Blessings and how to donate, go here and for Room In the Inn go here. 

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