WHEELING — As the weather grows colder, local organizations are offering resources to Wheeling’s unhoused population to stay warm.

The Salvation Army of Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel and Tyler counties opened its doors as a winter freeze shelter Tuesday. Its location on 16th Street will be open every day between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. until temperatures go up.

The expanded hours, which the Salvation Army has provided in years past when temperatures drop below freezing, will continue until the weather gets warmer, as well as their regular meals and other services.

As for other places to stay, the YWCA in East Wheeling is open 24 hours a day and has a number of beds available for overnight stays, serving as one of just three emergency homeless shelters for women in the Northern Panhandle.

Northwood Health Systems’ shelter has 16 available beds and also offers overnight stays. The Life Hub shelter, also located on 16th Street in the former First English Lutheran Church, has beds as well. It is open from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. every night through March 31.

Volunteers with street medicine group Project HOPE make weekly rounds at the encampment off of Maintenance Trail and usually will have hand warmers as well as socks and gloves on hand for those in need.

Cold weather-related injuries like trench foot and frostbite are common this time of year, said Project HOPE’s Dr. William Mercer.

Other organizations like Catholic Charities also supply warm clothing, hot meals and other resources.