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County Of Santa Clara, San Jose Ca

County of Santa Clara 271.5500

Social Service Agency Assistance Application Center

1919 Senter Road

 8-5 Mon-Fri

Assistance for homeless families with temporary assistance for needy

families (TANF), Medi-Cal and food stamps.

County of Santa Clara 793.8900

General Assistance

1888 Senter Road
7-5 Mon-Fri

Financial assistance for single men and women upon qualification. Rent

and move-in assistance for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients.

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, San Jose Ca

2625 Zanker Road, #200, San José, CA 95134

408.325.5277 www.catholiccharitiesscc.org

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County helps people of all cultures and

beliefs rise from poverty and overcome the barriers to self-sufficiency. They

provide a broad range of services, including job skills training and placement,

older adult services, mental health and substance abuse counseling, housing

assistance, financial education, immigration support and refugee resettlement.

They provide educational programs that help young people develop into selfsufficient

adults.

Santa Maria Urban Ministry, San Jose, Ca

• 778 South Almaden Avenue (at Union Street), San Jose, CA, 95110-2919


• Phone: 1-408-292-3314


• Email: smum83 [at] gmail [dot] com


• Here is their website.

Food Pantry Hours

• Donations accepted during Food Pantry hours:
  Monday – Saturday, 9 a.m. – Noon


• Clients must arrive by 11:45 a.m. for service


• Santa Maria Urban Ministry (SMUM) distributes food from supporters, including Second Harvest Food Bank, and Martha’s Kitchen, to about 1,800 people a month, half of whom are children. If a Client lives in one of these zip code areas, Santa Maria Urban Ministry is the designated food agency (Si usted vive en una de estas áreas del código postal, El Ministerio Urbano de Santa María es la agencia señalada del alimento):  95110, 95117, 95125, 95126, 95128, 95131, 95132 and 95134.

Welcome! Bienvenidos! Chào mừng!

Santa Maria Urban Ministry (SMUM) was founded as an outreach ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real in April 1983 to provide emergency food to the residents of San José’s inner city. In addition to continuing to serve the needs of our clients and promite their self-sufficiency, SMUM has developed transformative programs to serve the needs of and promote self-sufficiency within our community.

SMUM is a unique gathering place in our neighborhood where clients feel safe. At SMUM, clients can share their concerns with the staff and volunteers – caring individuals who know their stories, their struggles, their gifts, joys and hopes.

In spite of good efforts and solid programs, the need is growing faster than the resources. SMUM needs your support to accomplish its mission.

The Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley

Welcome To The Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley

The Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley is a 501(c)3, nonprofit, community health clinic, located in San Jose, California. We serve people from all walks of life, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or disability and take pride in serving our diverse patients and clients.  Besides having a highly talented medical and dental department, the Indian Health Center also has an outstanding counseling department, community wellness center and two WIC (Women Infants and Children) offices, one in San Jose and the other in Mountain View.

Cost of services at the Indian Health Center is determined by the patient's eligibility for various programs.  To determine your eligibility, set up an appointment with our Eligibility Coordinator, Norma Avila by email or call her at (408) 445-3400 x233.

Indian Health Center
1333 Meridian Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125
p. (408) 445-3400
f. (408) 269-9273

Visit the Indian Health Center!
Our main Medical clinic is open Monday and Friday from 8am to 5pm, Tuesday thru Thursday from 8am to 7pm, and Saturday from 8am - 12pm

Our Lady of Guadeloupe Church, Food Pantry, San Jose Ca

Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish 
2020 E San Antonio St
San Jose, CA 95116
Phone: (408) 258-7057 Fax: (408) 258-8249
A Parish of The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose CA

Food Pantry for Low-income, homeless and unemployed residents in 95116, 95132 and 95135

zip codes and Parish residents. 

FOOD BAGS:  Wed. 9:00 am - 11:00 AM - Thurs., 3:00pm - 5:00pm

 

INNVISION - Julian Street Inn Shelter, San Jose Ca

Julian Street Inn Shelter

546 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110
408-271-0820

At this location
70 beds and rehabilitation services for men & women diagnosed with mental illness.

• Emergency Shelter for those diagnosed with mental illness


• Day Rehabilitation Program


• Food Donations
  Food/Supplies Only
  8am – 6:30pm, daily

Loaves & Fishes - St. Patrick's, Soup Kitchen, San Jose Ca

St. Patrick's

389 E. Santa Clara Street (corner of 9th St.)

San Jose, Ca 95113

408 293-4505

SOUP KITCHEN MEALS SERVED:

Mon., Thurs.: 4:00 pm

Sat.: 4:30 pm

Safe@work Coalition, Domestic Violence and the Workplace

Domestic Violence as a Workplace Issue

Domestic Violence is the leading cause of injury to women. It impacts one out of every four women. Problems of domestic violence frequently spill into the workplace. Batterers commit 13,000 violent acts against their partners in the workplace each year. Batterers also pose serious threats to the safety of their victims' co-workers. Research shows that their husbands or boyfriends at work harassed 74 percent of employed battered women. Every month, domestic violence caused 56 percent of them to be late at least five times, 28 percent to leave early at least five days and 54 percent to be late for work at least five times. As a result many workers face disciplinary action.

Employment is the key to a domestic violence victim's economic self-sufficiency, but the US General Accounting Office found that one-quarter to one-half of domestic violence victims surveyed lost a job due, at least in part, to domestic violence.

Go to the their website and download a PDF of their entire site.

InnVision Montgomery Street Inn Shelter & Cecil White Center

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MONTGOMERY MEALS
Cecil B. White
358 N. Montgomery
San Jose, CA 95110
(408) 271-5160
Breakfast: Mon. - Fri. 6:00am - 7:00am
Breakfast: Sat. - Sun. 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Lunch: Mon. - Fri 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Dinner: Mon. - Sun. 6:00 p.m.

Doctor: Tues: 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Nurse: Thurs: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

At this location
85 beds for men, short & long term housing, including job development programs.

The Cecil White Center is a multiservice drop-in center, offering a variety of basic services to homeless or at-risk men & women including a hot meal, shower facilities, laundry services, clothing, mailing address, and phone access. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served weekdays. On weekends, an evening meal is served. Additionally, clients are provided with job and housing referrals, substance abuse counseling, access to a computer lab, medical services, and health education. CWC serves an average of 300 people a day and 11,000 meals a month.

FOOD CONNECTION, San Jose Ca

Call Food Connection at 1-800-984-3663.

The call is free. The food is free.

Calling From a Cell Phone?
The toll-free Food Connection number routes calls based on the area code of the phone you are using. If you have a cell phone with an area code that is not local, please call direct at either (408) 266-8866 x101 or (650) 610-0800 x101.

Summer Meals: For kids 18 years and younger
Family Harvest: Groceries for families with minor children
Produce Mobile: Fruits & Vegetables
Brown Bag: Groceries for elders
Pantries: Emergency Food
Meal Programs: Hot meals
Food Stamps: $$ for groceries

The Domestic Violence Project of Silicon Valley California

If you or your family have been physically or emotionally abused please read the  Victums Handbook. If you live around Santa Clara County California you can find immediate help here.

If you live elsewhere, our web site is still for you. Then for help in your area call the National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800 799-SAFE (TDD 1-800-787-3224).

Here Is Their Website.

Sacred Heart Community Service, San Jose Ca

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sacred Heart Community Service
1381 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95110
Phone: (408) 278-2160
Fax: (408) 885-9071

Hours:

Mon-Thu 8 am - 5 pm

Fri 9 am - 4 pm

Sat 9 am - 12 pm

Feed the hungry, Clothe the Needy, Welcome the Stranger.

Bag lunches available every morning at 9:30am until they are gone (usually about two hours). Food box (two bags of food each month).

Another organization that needs donations and volunteers more than ever during this economic down turn, Sacred Heart Community Service provides food, clothes for more than 40,000 people last year. Their vision is a community united to ensure that every child and adult is free from poverty in the South Bay Area.
Sacred Heart serves customers living in the following zip codes (which are subject to change): 95110, 95117, 95125, 95126, 95128 and 95134. Any customer not living in one of the above zip codes can come to Sacred Heart Community Service on a one-time basis for food. We then refer them to Second Harvest for additional services.

CLICK HERE for there website.

EHC LifeBuilders, Emergency Housing Consortium in San Jose Ca

If you are homeless, at risk of homelessness, or know someone who is, or if you’d like more information on how one of there programs can help you, click Read More...

Click here for EHC lifebuilders website.

By email: help@ehclifebuilders.org
By phone: 408-539-2100, Option 1

Walk-ins:

Housing Services Partnership for Homeless Individuals
EHC LifeBuilders’ One-Stop Homelessness Prevention Center
Boccardo Reception Center
2011 Little Orchard Street, San Jose
(408) 510-7525
Hours: M-F, 8:30 a.m. -5:00 p.m.

The Salvation Army in San Jose Ca

CLICK HERE to go to the Salvation Army website.

SALVATION ARMY - San Jose
405 N. 4th Street
San Jose, CA 95112
(408) 282-1175
Open 24 Hours
Overnight guests - arrival at 3:00 p.m.
Lunch: Mon. - Sat. 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.
Dinner: Mon. - Sat. 5:15 - 6:00 p.m

Help for the homeless.

Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen in San Jose Ca

 

Eastside Neighborhood Center
Monday through Friday
Meal served at 4:30 p.m.
2150 Alum Rock Avenue
San Jose

Innvision' Montgomery Street Inn
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
Meal served at 4:30 p.m.
348 N. Montgomery Street
behind the HP Arena
San Jose

St. Maria Goretti Kitchen
Wednesday & Friday
Meal served at 4:00pm- Seniors, Singles, Couples - Meal served at 4:30pm - Families with children
2980 Senter Road
San Jose

Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen is committed to providing no cost, hot nutritious meals and support services in a dignified, safe and caring environment. We provide services to all needy individuals, with special concern for families, senior citizens and homeless. Loaves & Fishes was founded in 1980 to fill a void in the community for these special populations. Our kitchens now serve meals five days each week at three locations. The number of guests has grown from the initial 11 served on February 15, 1980, to over 200 per meal. Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic origin, religion, gender, age, handicap or sexual orientation.

Loaves & Fishes provides:

• No cost hot meals in San Jose Monday through Friday at Catholic Charities' Eastside Neighborhood Center; Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at InnVision's Montgomery Street Inn; and, Wednesdays and Fridays at St. Maria Goretti Kitchen itargeting families, seniors, single women, couples, and the disabled.


• Community Services to better serve the needs of our guests and to provide extensive information and referral services. We provide emergency outreach assistance, infant care supplies, and information and referrals for additional services.


• Extensive Holiday Programs including Senior Brunch, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas when we offer pictures with Santa Claus and "shopping days" for parents to take gifts home for their children.


• Grocery Bags are distributed to families on the 3rd Wednesday of every month from 11:00am - 12pm at the St. Maria Goretti site.


• CLICK HERE for The Loaves & Fishes website.


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Martha's Kitchen in San Jose Ca

Martha's Kitchen

 

311 Willow Street, San Jose, California, 95110
408.293.6111
Fax: 408.293.6557

E-mail: editacruz@gmail.com

Martha’s Kitchen Hours of Operation:

• Tuesday and Wednesday: Meal Service: 4:00pp - 5:00pm

Nestled between downtown San Jose and the quaint town of Willow Glen lies a “little soup kitchen” that will turn 30 in 2011. Founder Louise Benson began this work out of her garage when she prepared and gave away peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the poor. Then in 1981, she and her friends started Martha’s Kitchen on the premises of the Sacred Heart Church serving hot meals. The kitchen was named after a biblical figure, Martha, who unfailingly offered hot meals to Jesus and his band of followers on their frequent journeys through the community of Bethany.

Today, this “little soup kitchen” is not so little anymore.  It still gives out hot meals onsite with its mission to “feed the hungry with dignity, no questions asked, no judgment made.”  And its meals are hot and complete with soup, salad, roll, starch, a main dish, fruit and dessert.  It also sends out 160,000 hot and cold meals annually to a dozen other non-profit organizations in Santa Clara county as far south as Gilroy, and even to the dusty agricultural town of Dos Palos in Merced county to support the hungry. Before the end of 2010 it will serve its 2,000,000th meal since it has grown to an annual production of 200,000 meals. The “little soup kitchen that could” has proven it certainly could run an efficient kitchen with a lean staff of 6 employees which includes the Executive Director/Development Director, Operations Manager, two cooks and two kitchen help.  Edita Cruz, Executive Directors forecasts that Martha’s Kitchen will prepare its next 1,000,000 meals in as little as five years.

CLICK HERE for Martha's Kitchen website.

InnVision in San Jose Ca

 

Emergency Shelters / Temporary Housing

Montgomery Street Inn (MSI)

358 N. Montgomery Street, San Jose, CA
408-271-5160

Emergency Shelter

Montgomery Street Inn provides homeless men emergency shelter in a dorm room setting with 85 beds. The men receive case management and employment assistance. They are able to use the computer lab, attend regular meetings to support recovery from drugs and alcohol, and are linked to vocational and employment services.

Transitional/Supportive Housing

When the men staying at the MSI have secured full-time employment, they become eligible to move into the Transitional Housing Dorm. They work closely with our Transitional Housing Case Manager to maintain employment and sobriety, and to begin seeking permanent housing. Each man has his own private cubicle, available 24 hours to better serve those working swing or graveyard shifts. The men pay a small program fee and may stay in the Transitional Housing Dorm for up to 10 months.

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Julian Street Inn (JSI)

546 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110
408-271-0820

Emergency Shelter

Julian Street Inn is the only facility in Santa Clara County that provides emergency shelter to clients diagnosed with mental illness. We have 70 beds available for individual men and women diagnosed with mental illness and actively engaged in the mental health care system.   Clients may stay for up to 60 days.

Our Day Rehabilitation Program offers rehabilitation services to residents and former residents, Monday through Friday.  Individuals receive one-on-one counseling and support as well as participating in support groups. Support groups are designed to help clients increase coping skills, maintain sobriety, and develop resources to help them maintain independence.

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Commercial Street Inn (CSI)

260 Commercial Street, San Jose, CA
408-271-1630

Commercial Street Inn provides emergency shelter for women and women with children for up to 90 days. There are 12 family rooms and 15 private cubicles for single women. Due to the facilities design, boys over the age of 11 are not permitted to stay in the shelter. Women pay a small program fee after the first 30 days. While in the shelter, women work closely with a case manager to secure transitional or permanent housing.  Daycare, employment services, and counseling are provided to break the cycle of homelessness.  Meals are provided and all residents assist with daily chores. There is a computer lab available on site and the Learning Zone Homework Club, an after-school program, is offered Monday through Friday for school-aged children.

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Transitional/Supportive Housing

Stevens House

San Jose
408-271-0685

Stevens House supports 8 graduates of JSI.  Residents may stay in this transitional housing for up to two years.  Each resident pays a small fee and is expected to contribute 20 hours a week in community service.  Regular house meetings are facilitated by an on-site case manager who works closely with each resident to ensure each is on-track with planned goals.

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The Villa

San Jose
408-271-0685

The InnVision Villa provides transitional housing for single women and women with children. A community kitchen, common rooms, play area, and computer lab are available for all residents. Individual units are wired for telephone service.  The Learning Zone Homework Club is offered twice a week for school-aged children. Case management is part of the program design and includes regular house meetings and educational workshops. Residents must be employed and pay 30% of their income for rent, and maintain residency for up to two years.

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HomeSafe – Santa Clara and San Jose

San Jose, 408-251-8064
Santa Clara, 408-557-9088

HomeSafe provides shared housing for 150 survivors of domestic violence with sites in both San Jose and Santa Clara.  InnVision works closely with Charities Housing and the Domestic Violence Collaborative to develop a transitional housing program designed specifically for survivors of domestic violence. Next Door provides on-site support services and counseling for residents.  The community center has a computer lab and a childcare center.

CLICK HERE to go to the InnVision website.

FOOD NOT BOMBS in San Jose Ca

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(408) 283-0260

(408) 947-7834

Currently serves one day a week. Community meals are open to all - it is a way to build community, reclaim public space and protest hunger, poverty, militarization and all forms of oppression. Meets every Sunday at 5 pm. We serve in different locations every week. Usually we are at Cesar Chavez Park. Food Not Bombs needs your help! We need assistance with transportation, cooking, serving and cleaning. We can always use your help as well as your perspectives and experiences.

CLICK HERE to go to the Food Not Bombs website.

Family Supportive Housing, Inc.

Family Supportive Housing, Inc.
1590 Las Plumas Avenue
San Jose, CA 95133-1667
(408) 926-8885
(408) 254-2056 FAX

OUR MISSION

TO PROVIDE SHELTER AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES TO HOMELESS FAMILIES IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY, TO EMPOWER THEM TO MOVE FROM HOMELESSNESS TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN OUR COMMUNITY

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QUICK FACTS

In Santa Clara County, an estimated 20,000 people experience homelessness each year.  Of these people, at least 25 percent are under the age of 18.

Families with children represent the fastest growing segment of the homeless population, constituting approximately 40% of people who become homeless. 

Over 70 percent of the residents at the Shelter are children and most are under the age of ten.

One-fourth of all homeless people work, but their wages are too low for them to afford permanent housing.

Family Supportive Housing is the only shelter in Santa Clara County that exclusively services families – intact families and single parents with children.

CLICK HERE to go to there website.