Safe Alliance Names New Shelter Director

Circle Connections: New Talent Safe Alliance has named Kathy Bolster Gauger as its director of residential services, responsible for managing operations and the strategic direction of the new Clyde and Ethel Domestic Violence Shelter. Safe Alliance, formerly United Family Services, opened its new 80-bed domestic violence shelter for women and children in January and it has been essentially at capacity since March. Most recently, Gauger served as director of shelter operations at Charlotte Family Housing. The previous Shelter for Battered Women that served Mecklenburg County for more than 30 years had only 29 beds, and families were restricted to . . .