End Chronic Homelessness
in Sacramento County
How You Can Help End Chronic Homelessness
- Participate in the annual Homeless Count in Sacramento County. Look out for information on the Street Count page about the upcoming Homeless Count which will take place on January 29, 2008.
- Attend a meeting of the Interagency Council or Policy Board. Find the days, times, and locations of these meetings under the Policy Board and Interagency Council pages.
- Advocate for policies that positively affect homeless people. Find out how to contact your elected official at www.usa.gov.
- Volunteer in your community with Hands On Sacramento or the United Way California Capitol Region.
Hands On refers individuals, businesses, and community groups to volunteer opportunities in the Sacramento region. The organization also provides issue education and trainings.
See the Hands On Sacramento website
The United Way works to tackle local issues by engaging financial and human resources to address them.
See the United Way Capitol Region website - Volunteer for or donate to an organization that works to prevent homelessness or provides assistance to homeless or formerly homeless people.
See our partial listing of organizations below:
AIDS Housing Alliance
Primary Activities:
Hospice/residential care, transitional living, permanent supportive housing, shelter-to-housing.
See the AIDS Housing Alliance websiteThe Effort
Primary Activities: Primary health care, mental health care, addictions treatment, other community programs.
See The Effort websiteHome Aid Sacramento
Primary Activities: Builds and renovates shelters for the temporarily homeless population. Home Aid is a national organization with a chapter in Sacramento.
See the Home Aid Sacramento websiteLoaves and Fishes
Primary activities: Advocacy, Guest Health Outreach, Mental Health services, legal services, women’s empowerment, jail visitation, clean and sober program, daytime hospitality, housing referrals, library, Animal Emergency Service, much more.
See the Loaves and Fishes websiteLutheran Social Services
Primary Activities: Serves approximately 2075 clients in the region. Services include: money management, case management in transitional and permanent supportive housing, case management and housing for emancipating foster care youth, and much more. This is a national organization with a branch in Northern California.
See the Lutheran Social Services websiteMather Community Campus
Primary Activities: Mather provides homeless single adults and parents an opportunity to build new personal and professional lives by providing supportive housing units. Provides housing, case management, family/children’s services, recreation and transportation.
Find out more information about Mather Community CampusMercy Housing
Primary Activities: Acquire and renovate, as well as develop new properties for affordable, program-enriched housing. This is a national program with a branch in California.
See the Mercy Housing websiteProject Help
Primary Activities: Public education about substance abuse and assistance in coordination among public and private agencies that focus on substance abuse issues.
See the Project HelpResources for Independent Living
Primary Activities: Services to people with all forms of disability: mediating on behalf of people with disabilities, housing assistance, personal assistant services, information and referral, peer counseling, independent living skills training, assistive technology.
See the Resources for Independent Living websiteSacramento Area Emergency Housing Center
Primary Activities: Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center (SAEHC) started as a Family Shelter program in 1972 meeting the basic needs of seven homeless families, the agency now serves an average of 1,650 program participants each year in 11 programs, including the family shelter, women’s refuge program, housing services, and children’s services.
See the Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center’s websiteSacramento Homeless Organizing Committee
Primary Activities: Advocates for equal rights and safety for the homeless and formerly homeless. Publishes a bi-monthly newspaper, Homeward Street Journal.
See more information about Sacramento Homeless Organizing CoalitionSacramento Housing Alliance
Primary Activities: Promotes quality affordable housing and advocates for low income household and homeless individuals and families.
See the Sacramento Housing Alliance websiteSacramento Veterans Resource Center
Primary Activities: Residential long-term substance abuse treatment (more than 30 days), outpatient, partial hospitalization/day treatment.Salvation Army
Primary Activities: Food Box assistance, Utility assistance, Emergency Shelter for Men and Women, Homeless Feeding Programs, Rental/Mortgage Assistance, Pastoral Counseling, and more.
See the Salvation Army websiteSelf Help Housing
Primary Activities: Housing and referrals, low-cost shared rooms in the Friendship Housing program.
See the Self Help Housing websiteSt. John’s Shelter
Primary Activities: Emergency shelter to women and children, classes in anger management, parenting, budgeting, relapse prevention, job skills, basic computers. Physical and mental health and substance abuse assessment and counseling.
See the St. John’s Shelter websiteTransitional Living and Community Support
Primary Activities: TLCS provides supportive services such as case management, entitlement advocacy, and life skills development that are tailored individually to the needs of the clients. Currently provides services to more than 2100 individuals annually.
See the Transitional Living and Community Support websiteTurning Point
Primary Activities: A mental health agency providing psychiatric services, support and advocacy for those working to overcome the effects of mental illness.
See the Turning Point websiteWEAVE, Inc.
Primary Activities: Services to survivors of domestic violence and their families as well as survivors of sexual assault in Sacramento County. WEAVE offers a vast array of crisis intervention, advocacy and counseling programs.
See the WEAVE website
