From Unhoused to Home: Off The Streets assists those seeking permanent shelter

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Volunteers assembling furniture.

Sam Dunklau of Harrisburg was looking for a way to put his faith beliefs into practice. He found it with Off The Streets, a ministry serving the homeless throughout Dauphin County.

Off The Streets is a nonprofit organization based in Middletown, one of eight chapters in Ohio, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Washington. The national group was founded in 2009 by Michael Oles, a Catholic church deacon from Danbury, Conn.

In 2013, Oles moved to Lancaster and started Off The Streets there. Lancaster remains the busiest chapter in terms of the number of people helped, said Mary Ellen May, president of the Middletown chapter…

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