Sierra Roots offers weekly meals and clothing to people who are homeless. Clothing, including socks and shoes, is available every week. Individuals can get clothing once every two weeks.

During winter months, lunch served on Thursdays at 11:30am at the First Community Church at 300 Main Street, Nevada City.

During summer months, Thursday lunches are served at 11:30am at Pioneer Park, 421 Nimrod Street in Nevada City in the picnic area near the horseshoe pits.


Web pages

• Home - https://sierra-roots.org/

The Holy Trinity Episcoal Church serves a community meal for those in need on Tuesdays. In winter meal service may begin between 4 and 4:30pm. In summer it typically begins around 5pm.

Web pages

• Home - https://holytrinitynevadacity.org/

The Grass Valley United Methodist Church provides the Last Friday Supper, a free dinner for those in need on the last Friday of most months from 5:30-6:30pm. If driving, go to the lot behind the United Methodist Church (access on S. School St).

Last Friday Supper (Dec will be 5th Friday on the 29th)
● 5:30-6:30 p.m.
● 1st Come, 1st Served
● Drive-thru or Walk-up
● Masks & distancing please

Grass Valley United Methodist Church
236 S. Church St, Grass Valley, CA 95945

Web pages

• Home - https://gv-umc.org/
• Last Friday Supper - https://gv-umc.org/last-friday-supper-2/

Gold County Senior Services provides senior nutrition programs for older adults in Western Nevada County. They provide hot nutritious meals in a warm and friendly setting that provides older adults an opportunity to socialize. Each meal is prepared fresh and from scratch.

Congregate Lunch Cafe

Nevada City Senior Apartments
231 Colfax Ave, Grass Valley, CA 95945
530-273-4961

Lunch is served at noon, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in person
They do not serve meals on holidays or when roads are unsafe to travel.

How to Join In

Anyone 60 years of age and older is encouraged to attend. Other individuals may attend as guests for a fee. On your first visit to the Congregate Lunch Café, you will be asked to complete a participant information form.

Suggested voluntary contribution $3.00 per day.

Please note that no eligible senior will be denied participation in the program because of failure or inability to contribute.

Guests that are 59 and younger are welcome to attend but will be charged a fee of …

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Seniors First offers Meals on Wheels and Senior Cafes.

Meals on Wheels

​A service designed to help Older Adults Age in Place by targeting people who are home alone during the day and who have difficulty preparing simple meals. For clients who need the service temporarily.

Eligibility

At the time services are provided, clients shall be:

• 60 years of age or older, sufficiently functionally impaired and homebound; or,
• The spouse, of any age, of an eligible client; or,
• A person with a disability (of any age) who lives with an eligible client.

Senior Cafés

​The Senior Cafés program provides a hot, healthy lunch five days a week to seniors age 60 at over eight Senior Café locations throughout Placer County including Auburn, Lincoln, Rocklin and Roseville. The Senior Cafés are lively gathering places that help maintain clients' sense of community and connectedness.

Cost

​Meals are provided for a small optional contribution. No one is ever turned away for lack of financial resources.

There is a suggeste…

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WWJD? (What Would Jesus Do?) Inc. is a nonprofit, non-denominational organization in Western Placer County serving people who are homeless, transitionally homeless, and working poor. From a mobile van in each community at conveniently located sites, they serve their clients a warm breakfast and provide a bag full of food for their dinner. WWJD? can also provide clothing, blankets, tarps, sleeping bags, toiletries, laundry soap, pet food, and other sundries.

WWJD? is an all-volunteer agency providing a mobile food service in the Roseville, Auburn, & Colfax areas of Western Placer County, along with medical care and transportation, referral services for adults and children who are homeless.

See service times and locations on the WWJD? website - https://www.wwjdinc.org/service-locations.html

Web pages

• Home - https://www.wwjdinc.org/

Auburn Senior Center provides seniors over 50 with opportunities for socializing, activities, classes, and special events to remain active and independent in and around Auburn, CA

Web pages

• Home - https://www.auburnseniorcenter.com/

The Salvation Army is a charitable, faith-based organization that offers support services.

Cities, zip codes served by The Salvation Army Auburn Corps
Auburn Corps serves roughly Alta to Newcastle. Specifically, these zip codes (some towns have multiple zips and some zips cover multiple towns):

Alta	95701
Applegate	95703
Auburn	95602
Auburn	95603
Auburn	95604
Colfax +	95713
Dutch Flat	95714
Foresthill +	95631
Gold Run	95717
Meadow Vista	95722
Newcastle	95658
Weimar	95736

Services include

• Church and Spiritual care
• Food pantry (once a month, M, W, Fri) 
• Housing and utility assistance
• Emergency Disaster services
• Youth programs and Summer camps
• Women’s and Men’s programs
• Senior services
• Intermittent Adult and Family Case Management
• Rehabilitation Services Referrals

Auburn Social Service Office Hours

• Monday - Friday: 10am-2pm Food Pantry
• Monday-Friday: 10am-2pm. Homeless ready-made lunch ba…

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Loomis Senior Life Center provides numerous programs and meets at the 1st United Methodist Church in Loomis. The center's goal is to expand the mind, the body, and the spirits of seniors to enable them to stay in their homes for as long as possible.

Programs include:

• Zumba Gold at 9 am
• Stretchersize at 10 am
• Yoga at 11:00 am on Tuesdays and Thursdays
• Tai Chi starts at 9:00 am
• Art class on Tuesdays from 9:00 to noon
• Sewing and quilting on Thursdays from 9:00 to noon
• Special programs (provided once in a while)
  • Choirs
  • Instrumentalists
  • Speakers on topics of interest to seniors
  • Card games
  • Board games
  • Conversation

All services are provided for $4.00 per person per day.

Loomis Senior Life Center provides a continental breakfast and a full nutritious hot lunch each day. There is a pianist that plays at lunch time. Come and share your joys and concerns in a warm, friendly atmosphere.

Web pages

• Home - http://www.loomisseniorlifecenter.com/

The Roseville Corps of The Salvation Army offers community meals, a food pantry, and food boxes (food boxes may be obtained once a month). Location: 100 Lincoln Street, Roseville, CA 95678.

Community Meals

• Friday Lunch – 11am-12pm
• Saturday Breakfast – 8-9am

Food Pantry
Food Pantry can be used as needed (Food Boxes, info below, may be obtained once a month)

• Monday through Thursday - 9am-Noon and 12:30-2:30pm
• Friday - 9-11am and 12:30-2:30pm

Food Box
To receive a Food Box once a month a proof of address (for example, a recent utility bill/rent agreement/mortgage statement) and ID must be provided. This location serves South Placer County (Roseville, Rocklin, Loomis, Granite Bay, Penryn, Sheridan, Antelope 95843, Orangevale 95663 and Citrus Heights 95621 & 95610).

• Monday through Thursday - 10am-12:55 pm and 2-3 pm
• Friday - 1-3 pm

Web pages from above with visible url links

• Home - https://roseville.salvationarmy.org/roseville/
• Community meals & food pantry - htt…

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