{"id":155507,"date":"2012-01-09T11:53:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=155507"},"modified":"2012-01-10T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T19:34:33","slug":"no-jump-in-longview-shelter-victims-four-months-after-kilgore-crisis-centers-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=155507","title":{"rendered":"No Significant Jump in Longview Shelter Victims after Kilgore Center&#8217;s Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=155515\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-155515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/01\/4f0a8171a5029.preview-300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"4f0a8171a5029.preview-300\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-155515\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 The closing of Kilgore Crisis Center four months ago has not significantly boosted the number of abused spouses seeking shelter at a sister shelter in Longview, officials report. That\u2019s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. The Kilgore Crisis Center closed September 9 after state auditors discovered payroll discrepancies resulting in a roughly $130,000 debt. Since then, Kilgore police have looked to the Women\u2019s Center of East Texas in Longview when they encounter people who need immediate rescue from abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur shelter (population) numbers have not gone up much at all,\u201d Women\u2019s Center director Shannon Trest said, adding that there has been a small increase in non-shelter needs devoted to Kilgore spouses \u2014 services such as basic financial training, legal advocacy and support groups. \u201cOur non-residential numbers have gone up about 12 percent, and that\u2019s only been since September,\u201d said Trest. \u201cWe\u2019re very, very stable. \u201cIt was heartbreaking when that program closed, but we moved quickly and hopefully with minimal damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Randy Renshaw, a sales broker\/associate with Coldwell Banker Lenhart Properties in Kilgore, said Wednesday that he\u2019s had no serious bites on the crisis center property (pictured). Renshaw, who also is a Kilgore city councilman, added, \u201cI know there are a lot of people who would like to see somebody purchase the building and reopen the crisis center. There\u2019s definitely a need for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 The closing of Kilgore Crisis Center four months ago has not significantly boosted the number of abused spouses seeking shelter at a sister shelter in Longview, officials report. That\u2019s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. The Kilgore Crisis Center closed September 9 after state auditors discovered payroll discrepancies resulting in a roughly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=155507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Significant Jump in Longview Shelter Victims after Kilgore Center&#8217;s Close<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 04:49:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155507"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155863,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155507\/revisions\/155863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}