From Lois
Lannin Presents Homeless Shelters in the United States :
Homeless Shelters/Programs in Berkeley, CA
(1) Berkeley Cares
2425-B Channing Way #320
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: Not Available
FAX: Not Available
email: Not Available
URL: Not Available
Summary of Services:
- A coalition of local business leaders, community leaders, and homeless
service providers
- Provides vouchers and educational programs to help meet the basic needs
of homeless individuals and families
(2) Berkeley Oakland Support Services (BOSS)
P.O. Box 1996
2100 M. L. King (at Addison)
Berkeley, CA 94701
Phone: (510)649-1930/1931 (Administrative Office)
(510)848-3378 (multi-service center)
FAX: (510)649-0627
email: Not Available
URL: Not Available
Summary of Services:
- Provides comprehensive services to Alameda Co.'s homeless, mentally disabled,
and poor.
- Non-residential multi-service centers
- Mental health advocacy
- Emergency shelters
- Housing advocacy
- Paralegal assistance
- Transitional housing
- Homeless employment
- Adult and children's education
- Substance abuse treatment
- Temporary housing subsidies
- Member of The Progressive Way
(3) Berkeley Oakland Support Services Community
Organizing Team
1853 Ashby Street
Berkeley, CA 94703
Phone: (510)540-7791
FAX: (510)540-7878
email: Not Available
URL: Not Available
Summary of Services:
- Part of BOSS (Berkeley Oakland Support Services)
- Works with homeless families to collectively address their needs and concerns
- Goal is empowerment through collective action
(4) Berkeley Religious Coalition with the Homeless
2600 Hillegass Avenue #1
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510)848-6491/(510)548-0551
FAX: Not Available
email: Not Available
URL: Not Available
Summary of Services:
- Coalition between the homeless amd religious organizations
(5) California Homeless Network
2231 Shattuck Avenue #328
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510)704-8575
FAX: Not Available
email: Not Available
URL: Not Available
Summary of Services:
- Statewide coalition of homeless and low-income people and organizations
that they lead
- Goal is to eliminate homelessness and to ensure a decent life for all
Californians.
(6) Center for Independent Living
2539 Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510)841-4776
FAX: (510)841-6168
email: Not Available
URL: Not Available
Summary of Services:
- Services for the disabled, including youth, deaf, and blind services
- Independent living skills training
- Job development
- Referrals for attendant care and housing
- Program for the homeless mentally or emotionally ill
- Financial benefits counseling
- Client Assistance Project (CAP)
- Client Enhancement and Empowerment Project (Client Choice)
- Asian and Latino outreach
- Peer support services
(6) The CoHousing Company
1250 Addison Stret #113
(at Bonar)
Berkeley, CA 94702-1700
Phone: (510)549-9980
FAX: (510)549-2140
email: Not Available
URL: Not Available
Summary of Services:
- Resource center for groups and individuals interested in creating cohousing
communities
(7) Dorothy Day House
Catholic Worker of Berkeley
P.O. Box 12701
Berkeley, CA 94712
Phone: (510) 466-5553
email: Not Available
URL: http://www.ccseb.com/ddh/ddh.html
Summary of Services:
- Catholic Worker community of Berkeley
- Serves breakfast seven days a week to the homeless and poor in People's
Park, near the University of California at Berkeley
- Works from (and serves at) the Veterans Building kitchen in a shelter
run by the city of Berkeley.
Future Plans:
- Plans to open a Hospitality Center that will provide day services to the
homeless
- Plans to bring their breakfast program indoors.
(8) Ecumenical Chaplaincy to the Homeless, Berkeley (BECH)
2345 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510)548-0551
FAX: (510)848-8207
email: Not Available
URL: Not Available
Summary of Services:
- Ministers to the homeless through work cooperatives, street counseling,
community organizing, a clothing ministry, spiritual services and a newspaper
written by homeless persons.
- Staffed by homeless and and non-homeless volunteers
(9) Food Not Bombs, East Bay (FNB)
c/o The Long Haul
3124 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
Phone: (510)644-4187/(510)540-0751
FAX: Not Available
email: Not Available
URL: Not Available
Summary of Services:
- Prepares and serves hot vegan food at least six days a week to the hungry
in the East Bay area.
- FNB survives on direct food donations from local bakeriers, produce outlets,
and restaurants.
- Receives no government or charity funding
- Manned by volunteers
- FNB holds weekly meetings on Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Long Haul.
(10) Homeless Action Center
2101-A Woolsey Street
Berkeley, CA 94705
Phone: (510)540-0878
FAX: Not Available
email: Not Available
URL: Not Available
Summary of Services:
- Volunteer-based agency
- Provides free legal services to Alameda County's mentally disabled homeless
and indigent residents
- Focuses on benefits advocacy, primarily in the area of SSI
- Also staffs several legal clinics
(11) Housing Rights, Inc.
3354 Adeline Street
Berkeley, CA 94703-2737
Phone: (510)658-8766
FAX: Not Available
email: Not Available
URL: Not Available
Summary of Services:
- Mission is to end discrimination in housing
- Free counseling and referrals
- Investigates housing discrimination complaints
- Client intake hours: Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Night on the Streets - Catholic Worker
J.C. Orton - Coordinator
1630 Berkeley Way, Berkeley
Mailing address
PO Box 13468
Berkeley CA 94712-4468
NOSCW1@AOL.COM
510-845-6151
Pray with us
be part of us
serve with us
scrounge with us
love us
remember us
support us
Dorothy Day House
Catholic Worker of Berkeley
P.O. Box 12701
Berkeley, CA 94712
(510) 466-5553
Food Not Bombs
Berkeley Free Clinic
Long Haul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
510-644-4187
Berkeley Emergency Food Project
2362 Bancroft Way
Berkeley
510-649-4965
Health and Housing
The Suitcase Clinic
First Presbyterian Church
2407 Dana St, Berkeley
Berkeley Oakland Support Services
2065 Kittredge Street, Suite E
Berkeley, CA 94704
510 649-1930
Homeless Action Center
2500 MLK Jr. Way #1
510-540-0878
Legal Clinics (from Homeless Action Center Website)
Attorneys provide advice and give referrals on a broad range of legal issues at HAC's legal clinics. The clinics, held
regularly at local shelters and homeless service centers, provide legal consultations to homeless and low-income
individuals on a drop-in basis.
Briefcase clinic: (Open to all)
First Presbyterian Church
2407 Dana St, Berkeley.
2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month at 7-9 PM
Women's Clinic: (For Women)
BEFHP Women's Shelter
2140 Dwight Way, Berkeley.
1st Wednesday of each month, 7-9 PM
A second Women's Clinic is held at:
Friendly Manor
2298 San Pablo, Oakland.
4th Tuesday of the month, 10:30 AM - 12 PM
MediCal Clinic
BPCAC
2001 Dwight Way, 1st Floor, Berkeley.
1st & 3rd Monday of each month, 9:30 AM - 12 PM
BOSS Multi Agency Service Center
510-843-3700
Women's Daytime Drop-in Center
510-548-2884
Berkeley Drop-In Center
510-653-3808
www.dnai.com/~cmiller/shelter.html(and again, if we find the new link we will put it up here)
Shelter List for Alameda County
www.dnai.com/~cmiller/CHAIN.html(as the last one was down, it seems that the site changed hosts or is now dead)
Community Housing And Information Network
510-537-2552
Peoples Park
Free Radio Berkeley
Education
Berkeley Adult School
BOSS at Berkeley Adult School
Employment
Center For Independant Living
www.jobsconsortium.org(the site is down)
Jobs Consortium
Social Service Organizations
Chaplaincy To The Homeless
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