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Homelessness and Housing/Food Distribution


A Child's Place

Mission: A Child's Place is a community organization that works in collaboration with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to provide education and support services, and to advocate for children and their families who are homeless or at-risk of being homeless.

www.achildsplace.org

(704) 343-3792

 

Baptist Sharing House

Mission: Give food and clothes to those who need it.

(704) 788-6507

 

Catherine's House

Mission: Provide transitional housing within a programmatic context that promotes self-sufficiency, empowering women to successfully re-integrate into society.

(704) 825-9599

 

Charlotte Emergency Housing

To provide opportunities through advocacy, temporary shelter, and support services for homeless families in their transition to stable housing.

www.charlotteemergencyhousing.com

(704) 335-5488

 

Charlotte Rescue Mission

Mission: 90 Day residential recovery program for 143 homeless or about to be homeless men and women who are suffering from drug and alcohol addiction.  Christian based receiving no funding from United Way or the government.

www.charlotterescuemission.org

(704) 334-4635

 

Cooperative Christian Ministry

Mission: To help meet the need of food, clothing, medicine, shelter, and heat for Cabarrus County neighbors in need.

(704) 786-4709

 

 Crisis Assistance Ministry

Mission: To provide individuals & families in Mecklenburg County with financial assistance, basic household goods, mentoring & advocacy to prevent homelessness.  To provide for those in need & in financial crisis & help them become self-sufficient.

www.crisisassistance.org

(704) 371-3001

 

Emergency Assistance

(704) 371-3001

 

Habitat for Humanity of Charlotte

Mission: Building and selling homes at no-interest and no profit to low income families.  Volunteer labor helps keep house costs low.

www.habitatcharlotte.org

(704) 376-2054

 

Hospitality House of Charlotte

Mission: To provide a "home away from home" for out-of-town families of patients in local hospitals.

www.hospitalityhouseofcharlotte.org

(704) 384-6058

 

House of Mercy, Inc.

Mission: Non-profit organization that's mission is to provide housing and nursing care for persons diagnosed to be in the advanced stages of HIV/AIDS.  We do not discriminate with regard to race, religion, or sexual orientation.

www.thehouseofmercy.org

(704) 825-4711

 

Loaves and Fishes

Mission: Believing that all people in our community should be able to meet their basic hunger needs and that we are called to share our resources, Loaves & Fishes' mission is to provide groceries and support to people in crisis. Loaves & Fishes is a nondenominational organization, founded and operated by local religious congregations. It grew out of an effort in 1975 at Holy Comforter Episcopal Church to respond to the growing hunger problem in Mecklenburg County and continues to expand to meet that need.

http://www.loavesandfishes.org 

(704) 523-4333

 

Lutheran Family Services Emergency Shelter

(704) 786-2908

 

Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina

Mission: Feed hungry people by soliciting and distributing food and other grocery products through partner agencies.  Educate people in the community about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.

www.secondharvestcharlotte.org

 

UNC-Charlotte Community Outreach Program

(704)-687-2541

 

Uptown Shelter

Mission: To care for people who are homeless and to provide them opportunities to rebuild their lives.

(704) 334-1337

 

Urban Ministry Center

Mission: An interfaith ministry committed to serve the poor and homeless with love, compassion, and tangible assistance by meeting basic needs through our soup kitchen, shower, laundry, phone, & mail services, and also deeper needs through our counseling services.

www.urbanministrycenter.org

(704) 347-0278

 

Youth Homes

(704) 334-9955

 

Youth Network

Mission: To keep kids safe, families together, and reduce the incidence of juvenile crime in the local community.

www.youthnetworknc.org

(704) 335-0203

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