Homeless Services - Volunteer Opportunities
You can help provide services and support to people in our County who are experiencing homelessness by volunteering with or donating to one of the agencies listed below.
| Agency | Description | Phone | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Area Community Services (BACS) | Bay Area Community Services (BACS) provides innovative behavioral health and housing services for teens, adults, older adults, and their families across the Bay Area. | 510-613-0330 | Ways to Give - Bay Area Community Services (BACS) |
| Bay Area Community Resources (BACR) | BACR’s mission is to promote the healthy development of individuals and families, encourage service and volunteerism, and help build community. We carry out our mission by (1) providing direct school- and community-based services, (2) connecting volunteers with opportunities to best serve their communities, and (3) building and strengthening all of the communities we serve so that community members and institutions can effect change. | Get Involved | BACR | |
| Bay Area Rescue Mission (BARM) | The mission of the Bay Area Rescue Mission (BARM) is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the homeless and needy and empower them to change their world. |
510-215-4873 |
Volunteer - Bay Area Rescue Mission | Make An Impact |
| Caminar | The purpose of Caminar is to empower and support individuals and families to move toward resilience, wellness, and independence. |
650-513-1509 |
How We Help | Behavioral Health Services | Caminar |
| Catholic Charities of the East Bay | Catholic Charities East Bay works with youth, children, and families to promote resilience, strengthen families, and pursue safety and justice for all |
510-768-3100 |
Volunteer - Catholic Charities East Bay |
| Contra Costa Crisis Center | The Crisis Center dedicates their services to keep people alive and safe, helping them through crises, and providing or connecting them with culturally relevant resources in the community, and have done so since 1963. |
925-939-1916 |
Volunteer - Contra Costa Crisis Center |
| Contra Costa Health: Health, Housing and Homeless Services (H3) |
The Contra Costa County Health, Housing and Homeless Services (H3) Division of Contra Costa Health Services integrates housing and homeless services across our County health system. | 925-608-6700 | How to Help | Contra Costa Health |
| Greater Richmond Interfaith Program (GRIP) |
Responding to the call to service, GRIP transforms the lives of homeless, hungry and disenfranchised people. |
510-233-2141
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GRIP Volunteer Opportunities - Greater Richmond Interfaith Program |
| Hope Solutions | Hope Solutions heals the effects of poverty and homelessness by providing permanent housing solutions and vital support services to highly vulnerable families and individuals. |
925-448-2004 |
Volunteer - Hope Solutions |
| Insight Housing | Insight Housing (formerly known as Berkeley Food & Housing Project) provides a comprehensive range of housing, food, and support services to help those in need move from homelessness into a safe and affordable home of their own. |
510-649-4965 |
Volunteer - Insight Housing |
| Lao Family Community Development | The mission of Lao Family Community Development is to advance the economic mobility and well-being of diverse communities through culturally informed health, employment, housing, education and supportive services. |
510-533-8850 |
Ways to Give – Support LFCD’s Mission |
| Make It Home Bay Area | Make It Home furnishes homes of those in need with donated furniture and household goods. |
415-578-3205 |
Volunteer | Make It Home |
| Northern California Family Center | Northern California Family Center's Crisis Homes are licensed foster family home that provide temporary, emergency shelter for youth between the ages of 9-17 years of age. Crisis Homes shelter runaways and at-risk youth. |
925-370-1990 |
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| Rainbow Community Center | Rainbow builds community, equity, and well-being among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, asexual or agender, and two-spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) people & our allies. |
(925) 692-0090 |
Volunteer | Rainbow Center |
| Safe Organized Spaces (SOS) Richmond | SOS Richmond is comprised of housed, unhoused, and formerly unhoused staff and allies working together to improve our neighborhoods. They don’t have volunteer opportunities but you can donate. |
925-237-1115 |
Donate - SOS Richmond |
| SHARE Community | The SHARE Community brings showers and toilets on wheels to the street to help our unhoused neighbors rekindle self-confidence, restore hope, and unlock opportunities that come along with being clean. |
925-237-1115 |
Mobile Showers and Hygiene | SHARE Community | United States |
| SHELTER, Inc | SHELTER, Inc. rebuilds lives one family at a time, by helping them re-establish a home, and assisting with the skills and resources needed to live the life they deserve. |
925-335-0698 |
Volunteer - Shelter Inc. |
| STAND! For Families Free of Violence |
STAND! For Families Free of Violence is a catalyst for breaking the multi-generational cycle of violence, promoting safe and strong relationships, and rebuilding lives. |
925-603-0175 |
Volunteer | STAND! For Families Free of Violence |
Point-in-Time Count
One important way community volunteers can assist is to help with the CoC's annual point-in-time count. Each January, the CoC counts the number of families and individuals experiencing homelessness and gathers information about their demographics. It also counts how many people are sleeping in cars, abandoned properties and other places that aren't meant for human habitation.
The count also helps us learn about who is experiencing homelessness in our community—like families, youth, veterans and people who are chronically homeless—and provides key data about gender, ethnicity and race. This information is critical to planning and funding homeless services.
Visit our Point in Time Count Hub for more information about the count and how to participate.