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Verified means a RiseAid volunteer confirmed hours and intake within 12 months. Everything else is source-seeded; call ahead.
Utah Department of Workforce Services
Runs Utah's SNAP, Medicaid, financial assistance, and child care programs and the state's employment centers. The fastest way to apply or check a case is the myCase portal at jobs.utah.gov/mycase; employment centers around the state can help in person.
Homeboy Industries
Los Angeles program for formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated people offering free tattoo removal, GED and education classes, substance use referrals, limited legal help, workforce support, and court-mandated classes. Most services start by walking into the office during business hours.
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.
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.
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.
South Side Mission
Peoria mission focused on the 61605 neighborhood, running a soup kitchen, youth programs, job training, and outreach for people in crisis. Faith-based but open to anyone; call for details on a specific ministry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alvis
Columbus nonprofit running residential and community reentry programs with cognitive behavioral treatment, workforce development, behavioral health care, recovery housing, and family support. Residential placement requires a referral from a judge or parole officer; community services take direct calls.
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.
Unity Recovery Philadelphia
Free recovery community organization offering one-on-one peer support, mutual aid meetings, re-entry and forensic peer support for people leaving the justice system, pregnant and postpartum recovery support, employment help and naloxone at a seven-day-a-week drop-in center. No enrollment required for meetings and activities.
Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations Alliance (PRO-A)
Statewide voice for Pennsylvania's recovery community. Certifies peer recovery specialists, runs a training institute, and keeps a resource library on employment, criminal history, family support and health insurance for people in recovery; it points people needing treatment to the state's county drug and alcohol offices.
Allentown Rescue Mission Emergency Shelter
Overnight emergency shelter for men 18 and older in downtown Allentown, with meals, chapel and on-site medical care through the DeSales Clinic. Men may apply to the eight-week Transformation Program and then join the Clean Team workforce.
Haven for Hope
San Antonio homeless campus with a low-barrier South Campus shelter and a North Campus transformational program for Bexar County residents. New arrivals are handled on a walk-in basis at the Intake Building during weekday business hours.
First Step House
Residential and outpatient treatment plus recovery housing for adults in Salt Lake County, built around men with substance use disorders at moderate to high risk of criminal behavior; a record is not required. Also Utah's only transitional housing for homeless veterans of any gender. Most admissions come by referral, but self-referrals are taken; typical wait for a bed is 2–4 weeks.
Food & Care Coalition
Provo's day center and transitional housing provider for Utah County. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner 365 days a year with no ID or proof of need; weekday showers, laundry, hygiene kits, and clothing without an appointment; on-site medical and dental through partner clinics; case management toward housing and work.
Switchpoint Community Resource Center
Washington County's 24/7 emergency shelter for families and individuals, with a community kitchen, individualized case management, job support, mental health services, and 16 family housing units on the St. George campus. Headquarters at 214 N 1000 E Suite B.
Clean Slate Utah
Nonprofit helping Utahns clear criminal records. The Fresh Start Program screens records for free, explains whether a case qualifies for automatic Clean Slate expungement or needs a petition, and offers help with government fees for people who income-qualify. Start with the online intake form; a Spanish site is available.