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Verified means a RiseAid volunteer confirmed hours and intake within 12 months. Everything else is source-seeded; call ahead.
211 Utah
Dial 2-1-1 for referrals to food, housing, utilities, health, and more anywhere in Utah.
The Road Home
Salt Lake County's main emergency shelter provider for single men, single women, and families with children. Beds are assigned through the Homeless Services Line, not by walking up. Operates the Pamela Atkinson Resource Center (South Salt Lake), Gail Miller Resource Center (Salt Lake City), and Connie Crosby Family Resource Center (Midvale).
211 California
Network of county 211 call centers covering housing, food, utility help, health care, and mental health referrals across California. Use the Find Your 211 page to reach the center for your county, which can be called or texted.
Union Rescue Mission
Skid Row mission offering emergency shelter, meals, showers, recovery and transitional programs for single adults and families with children; it does not turn away women, children, or families. Call the intake line or apply online before arriving.
Downtown Women's Center
Day center for women and survivors of violence on Skid Row with daily meals, showers, mail, case management, mental health care, a women's health clinic, and permanent supportive housing. No formal intake is needed to visit.
St. Anthony Foundation
Tenderloin service center serving more than 1,000 free meals a day, with a free clothing program, medical clinic, and the Father Alfred Center, a free year-long residential recovery program for men with limited resources.
Delancey Street Foundation
Free two-year residential self-help community for people with substance use histories, prior convictions, or homelessness, where residents learn vocational, academic, and interpersonal skills. Applicants write from jail or show up at the building and wait on the bench for an interview.
Father Joe's Villages
San Diego's largest homeless services campus with a daily day center, public lunch, showers, mail, a health clinic, detox and MAT, family shelter intake, and employment help. Show up in person before 11am on a weekday to be scheduled for an assessment.
Sacramento Loaves & Fishes
Survival services campus for unhoused adults and children in Sacramento with a daily noon meal, showers and clothing, a women's daytime shelter, free mental health counseling, a legal clinic, and a jail visitation program that gives bus passes and toiletry kits after release.
Refugee Resettlement and Employment Programs
Reception and placement for newly arrived refugees, community-resource help for Cuban and Haitian entrants, and Match Grant job search, employment coaching and placement for refugees, entrants and asylees. Adult clients are referred through Migration and Refugee Services and the USCCB.
211 Tampa Bay Cares (First Contact)
Round-the-clock information and referral for the Tampa Bay region, including a Homeless Helpline, a sexual assault services line, emergency financial assistance for adults and the 988 crisis line. Call, text your ZIP code, or chat online.
Camillus House
Miami's long-running provider for people who are poor and homeless, with an overnight shelter on NW 7th Avenue and Camillus Health on NW 5th Street. Serving South Florida since 1960.
Lotus House Women's Shelter
Shelter for women, youth and children experiencing homelessness in Miami, with meals, therapy, education and employment help on site. Youth and domestic violence survivors can contact Lotus House directly; everyone else is asked to go through the Miami Homeless Program first.
Metropolitan Ministries
Tampa Bay nonprofit serving poor and homeless families and individuals in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas with emergency family shelter, a food market, rent and utility help and job training. Its Metro BrigAIDe mobile outreach team helps with IDs, SNAP and Medicaid applications and housing assessments at more than 20 sites.
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida
Low-barrier residential shelter in downtown Orlando serving about 500 men, women and children a day, with free meals, Housing First case management and a diversion program that helps people find housing outside the shelter system.
Sulzbacher Center
Jacksonville's largest provider of homeless services, with men's housing downtown on East Adams Street and women's and family housing at Sulzbacher Village in Springfield. Offers street outreach, daily meals, emergency and permanent housing, the Duval Family Health Center, veteran services and job placement.
United Way 211 Greater Atlanta
Free, confidential referral line staffed around the clock that points Atlanta-area callers to rent and utility help, food pantries, shelter beds, and other services. The team also handles web chat and a texting option for people who cannot talk.
Gateway Center
Downtown Atlanta's main front door for people without housing. It runs coordinated entry for the city, an engagement center with day services, and residential tracks for men including the Upward addiction-recovery program and a two-year veterans program.
The Shepherd's Inn
Shelter and residential program for up to 450 single men a day, with meals, counseling, recovery programming, job training and legal help. Arrive at the Mills Street gate early; pre-screening happens before the weekday morning intake window.
Old Savannah City Mission
Faith-based mission on Bull Street offering three hot meals a day, overnight beds, showers and clothing at no charge, plus a residential recovery program for men coming out of homelessness and addiction. A free medical clinic runs Monday afternoons.
Chatham Savannah Authority for the Homeless
The lead homelessness agency for Savannah and Chatham County. Its street outreach team meets people where they are six days a week and connects them to shelter and housing, and it operates an Access Center for triage at Union Mission's day center on Fahm Street.
Center of Hope - Augusta
Emergency shelter in Augusta with separate check-in lines for single women, women with children, men and families. Dinner is served nightly and everyone checks out at 8 a.m.; caseworker appointments can be requested by phone or online.
Garden City Gospel Mission
Men's shelter on Fenwick Street in Augusta that also runs a nine-month residential Life Development Center for men working to leave addiction. Showers are open to the public on Fridays.
Valley Rescue Mission
Columbus nonprofit with a men's transitional shelter, a women and children's shelter, 9–12 month recovery centers for men and women, and a daily hot meal for about 120 people. Shelter and recovery applicants apply online; the men's shelter takes applications by phone.
211 Illinois
Free information and referral line for every Illinois resident needing non-emergency help with housing, utilities, food, mental health, or health care. Dial 211 or text your zip code any time of day.
RefugeeOne
Chicago's largest resettlement agency, serving refugees, asylees, and immigrants with rent support, English classes, job coaching, mental health therapy, youth programs, and free citizenship help. Call or email to connect.
Pacific Garden Mission
Chicago's oldest rescue mission, with separate shelters for men, women, and mothers with children plus addiction recovery and meals. Men's intake runs weekday mornings on a first-come basis; women's beds rarely run out.
The Night Ministry Youth Housing
Overnight emergency shelter (The Crib), interim housing up to 120 days, and long-term programs for Chicagoans ages 18 to 24, including a track for pregnant and parenting youth 16 to 22. Separate numbers for short-term beds and long-term programs.
Helping Hands of Springfield
Emergency shelter with 200 beds and cots nightly for single adults and families in Sangamon County, plus transitional and permanent housing programs and meals for guests. The phone is answered around the clock.
Rockford Rescue Mission
Shelter, meals, a free medical and dental clinic, and residential Life Recovery programs for men and women in Rockford. Shelter check-in is open at any hour, with separate entrances for men and for women with children.
Michigan 211
Free statewide information line that connects anyone in Michigan to local help with housing, food, utility bills, transportation, and clothing. Dial 211 or text your ZIP code to be matched with programs near you.
Samaritas New Americans
One of Michigan's largest refugee resettlement agencies, with offices in Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing. Provides arrival resettlement, employment and education support, low-fee immigration legal help, case management, and refugee foster care.
CAM Detroit (Coordinated Assessment Model)
The single front door to emergency shelter and housing programs for people experiencing homelessness in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park. Staff assess your situation by phone or at walk-in access points and refer you to available beds.
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
Operates more than ten sites in Detroit and Highland Park offering overnight emergency shelter with meals, showers, and clothing, plus withdrawal management, substance use treatment, transitional housing for men in recovery and women with children, and job training.
Cass Community Social Services
Detroit nonprofit with food programs, affordable housing, health services, job training through its Green Industries, and a warming center. Also hosts a CAM walk-in access point for shelter referrals.
Alternatives For Girls
Detroit agency for homeless and at-risk girls and young women, including trafficking and domestic violence survivors. Street outreach teams offer food, clothing, and hygiene kits; the Crisis Resource Center connects survivors to shelter, health care, and workforce programs.
Mel Trotter Ministries
Grand Rapids' largest shelter provider, serving individuals and families with meals, emergency shelter, medical care, permanent housing support, and job training through its Next Step of West Michigan division. First-time guests start with a phone triage call.
Dégagé Ministries
Heartside-neighborhood day center in Grand Rapids with low-cost meals, showers and haircuts, a women's overnight shelter, case management, and an ID program that helps guests get state IDs and vital records needed for jobs and housing.
Advent House Ministries
Lansing's lead Coordinated Entry agency for Ingham County. Screens unhoused people for shelter and housing referrals, runs a weekend day shelter with meals, provides eviction diversion and rapid rehousing case management, and does street outreach across Ingham, Clinton, and Eaton counties.
Carriage Town Ministries
Flint's emergency shelter since 1950, offering beds, meals, case management, and a resident transitional employment program. Call ahead for a phone screening to learn current bed availability.
NC 211
Free, confidential information line that connects North Carolinians to verified help with housing, utilities, food, health care, and transportation. Dial 2-1-1 from any phone in the state and choose your language when prompted.
Roof Above
Charlotte's largest homeless services provider, with a Day Services Center offering showers, laundry, mail, lunch, a nurse, and help getting ID, plus emergency shelters that do not require photo ID. Call the help line for a phone assessment or walk into a Coordinated Entry site to get on the list for shelter and housing.
Oak City Cares
Wake County's multi-service hub for people at risk of or experiencing homelessness, with care coordinators, weekday showers and laundry, weekend meals, on-site medical and behavioral health, and rides to other providers. It is a Coordinated Entry access site, so this is where to walk in for shelter and homelessness-prevention referrals.
Urban Ministries of Durham
Durham's primary public shelter for single men and women, with nine family rooms, a cafe serving three free meals every day of the year, and a food pantry and clothing closet. Shelter placement goes through Entry Point Durham, which currently does intakes by phone only.
Greensboro Urban Ministry
Runs Weaver House shelter for single adults, Pathways family shelter, a food pantry, Potter's House daily lunch, and walk-in utility disconnect help for Guilford County. Shelter beds fill fast, so the ministry asks people to call the Weaver House desk repeatedly during morning hours.
AHOPE Day Center
Asheville's low-barrier day center where showers, breakfast, mail, lockers, phone, and Wi-Fi are available each weekday morning, followed by case management for IDs, housing applications, and job documents. It is the starting point for Homeward Bound's permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, and veteran programs.
211 New York
Free, confidential information and referral line covering food, housing, utilities, health and mental health, and substance use anywhere in the state. Dial 211 or text your ZIP code; a guided online search is at search.211newyork.org.
The Bowery Mission
Three meals a day at 227 Bowery with no ID or questions, plus showers, clothing, free mobile medical care, and up to seven nights of emergency shelter at the Tribeca campus. Longer residential recovery programs are available by walking in to speak with an Ambassador.
Buffalo City Mission
Emergency shelter for men at the Alfiero Family Center with intake open 24 hours, and for women and children at Cornerstone Manor. Public meals three times daily at 100 E. Tupper, and a food pantry and clothing shop on Monday and Wednesday mornings.
Open Door Mission
Rochester shelter and meal program at 156 N. Plymouth Avenue: a short-term bed, a daily 6 PM community dinner with to-go meals at 5, free clothing, a men's residential recovery program, and transitional housing for women with children. ID is helpful but not required.
Capital City Rescue Mission
Downtown Albany shelter with beds for men and women, three meals a day, free clothing, a medical clinic, and residential recovery and transitional living programs. Walk in any time with no appointment or ID; shelter check-in is before 5:30 PM.
Ohio 211
Free information and referral line for housing, food, utilities, health care, recovery, and legal help across Ohio. Dial 211 from any phone or use the online chat; coverage is expanding to all 88 counties.
Homeless Hotline
Single entry point for emergency shelter in Columbus and Franklin County. One 24-hour call connects adults and families to available shelter beds, street outreach, and rapid re-housing.
Men's Shelter at 2100 Lakeside
Cleveland's largest men's emergency shelter, with room for up to 365 men a night plus overflow beds. Men can walk in without an appointment; countywide shelter intake also runs through 211.
Central Access Point (CAP) Helpline
The one number to call for family shelter, substance-use transitional housing, or homeless veteran services in Cincinnati and Hamilton County. CAP places people in shelter but does not pay rent; for rent help it refers to 211.
Shelter for Women and Families
Dayton's main 24/7 emergency shelter for women and families with children. Residents get a bed, daily meals, clothing, laundry, showers, mail, and housing-focused case management. Men are referred to Homefull's Shelter for Men on South Gettysburg Avenue.
PA 211
Free, confidential information and referral line for all of Pennsylvania. Call or text to be connected to local help with housing, utilities, food, employment and other needs; a searchable directory is at search.pa211.org.
Outreach Coordination Center 24-Hour Homeless Outreach Hotline
Philadelphia's round-the-clock street outreach line, run by Project HOME with the City. Call if you are living outside or see someone who needs help; outreach teams respond and connect people to shelter, housing and recovery services.
Office of Homeless Services Prevention, Diversion and Intake
Entry point for Philadelphia's emergency shelter system and homelessness prevention help. Households call the InfoLine or visit a City-funded intake center; callbacks can take more than 72 hours during high volume.
Allegheny Link
Single call-in point for housing help in Allegheny County. Staff connect callers to emergency shelter and rental assistance, screen them for longer-term homeless housing programs using the Allegheny Housing Assessment, and refer households facing eviction to prevention programs.