The Crisis Resolution Center provides trauma-informed, solution-focused services to help resolve family crises and support reunification of teens and their caregivers in Placer County.

Services are available through a 24-hour toll-free phone line and a short-term residential program for youth ages 12-17.

Services include:

• Conflict resolution and family relationship counseling
• Parent-child communication and training support
• Referrals and personal support via a 24/7 phone line
• Short-term residential care in a co-ed, six-bed facility (average stay 2-4 weeks)
• Case management with a structured, three-phase program:
  1. Orientation and crisis de-escalation
  2. Counseling and outreach
  3. Reunification and aftercare

Web pages

• Home - https://www.kfh.org/services/crisis-resolution-center/

To stay at The Gathering Inn, a referral through the Coordinated Entry system is required. To get a referral, call the Placer County Homeless Resource Helpline at 833-375-2237 (or 833-3PLACER).

The Gathering Inn South Placer Emergency Shelter is a nomadic shelter located in Roseville. This shelter welcomes individuals and families. Partnerships with churches throughout Placer County make this program possible by providing guests with a meal and a safe place to sleep. Intakes and case management are offered 7 days/week.

• Intake starts at 1pm.
• Check in is at 4pm.
• Bus leaves at 6pm to different churches every night.

The Gathering Inn provides a variety of services – some just for people in their program or on the waiting list, and others for the wider community of people in need. People can get on the waiting list by calling 211 and ALSO calling TGI to confirm they want to receive services and get into the program.

Services for TGI program participants and those on the waiting list include:

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Volunteers of America (VOA) Family Shelter, Home Start Inc. operates a non-profit emergency shelter (operating 24/7, 365 days a year) for homeless families in Placer County.

Services include:

• Intensive Case Management
• Housing advocacy
• Housing placement services
• Individual units – so rather than a nomadic shelter, each family will have their own unit
• Food (as needed)
• Support
• Live in-person support – after hours
• Life skills groups
• Ready to rent certified training
• Extensive housing placement services

Intake Information:

• Mon-Fri
• Intakes no later than noon
• Emergency cases – intakes after noon
• No walk-ins

To stay at Volunteers of America Family Shelter, a referral through the Coordinated Entry system is required. To receive a referral, call the Placer County Homeless Resource Helpline at 833-375-2237 (833-3PLACER).

Web pages

• Volunteers of America - https://www.voa-ncnn.org/
• VOA / Home Start - https://www.voa-ncnn.org/locations/home-start/

The Adult System of Care (ASOC) division maintains a list of Housing Resources in Placer County.

The most recent available version of this guide is for 2024.

Last Updated: August 2, 2024

ASOC's Placer County Housing Resource Guide includes:

Western/South Placer

• Homeless Resources
• Domestic Violence Shelter
• Transitional & Bridge Housing Programs and Resources
• Substance Use Transitional Housing
• Permanent Housing Programs
• Children and Family Services
• Other Resources
• Children and Family Services
• Apartments
• Real Estate agencies
• Emergency shelters
• Children and Family Services
• Transitional & Permanent Housing Programs and Resources
• Apartments
• Real Estate agencies
• Veterans Resources

Eastern Placer - Tahoe Area

• Homeless Resources
• Transitional and permanent Housing Resources
• Children and Family Services
• Veterans Services
• Other Resources
• Apartments
  
  

Web pages

• Housing Resources in Placer County - https://www.placer.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/7210/Housing-Resource-Guide-PDF
• ASOC home -https://www.placer.ca.go…

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The Gathering Inn's Medical Respite Program provides people experiencing homelessness with a safe, clean place to rest and recover following hospital discharge.

Services include:

• Case management
• Resource navigation
• Mental health services

Note: 211 cannot provide a direct referral. However, 211 can provide information so that people may ask to speak with their case manager or social worker in order to receive a referral.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.thegatheringinn.com/what-we-offer#medicalrespite

To stay at The Gathering Inn, a referral through the Coordinated Entry system is required. To get a referral, call the Placer County Homeless Resource Helpline at 833-375-2237 (or 833-3PLACER).

The Gathering Inn Mid Placer is a 100 bed emergency housing and services program located at the DeWitt Campus in Auburn, CA.

The Gathering Inn is staffed 24/7 and employs 4 full-time Case Managers who work with guests to identify and work through barriers to housing by discussing how to increase income, providing a connection to education, and securing sustainable housing.

Case Managers then provide follow-up support for up to 1 year in an effort to reduce homelessness.

Mid Placer provides:

• Safety and security on campus
• 3 meals a day
• Clean clothing
• Bedding
• Shower facilities
• Use of electricity to run CPAP and Oxygen machines
• Life skills courses
• Drug and alcohol recovery meetings​
• Additional groups intended to help guests with individual development, and to transition guests from homelessness to housing
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Youth Empowerment Support's Housing Opportunities Providing Experience (HOPE) offers transitional housing along with intensive life skills support for young adults that have emancipated from court ordered foster or group home care.

HOPE is a program of Whole Person Learning (WPL), a public agency that empowers youth and young adults to thrive in their communities by using a collaborative, individually tailored positive youth development approach.

Web pages

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

24-hour helpline 800-575-5352
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Stand Up Placer's Safe House is located in a secure and confidential location, offering survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking in Placer County a safe place to heal and recover.

The Safe House Program is designed to empower survivors and develop strategies to stay safe and build their future.

This includes access to:

• Emergency necessities
• Advocacy
• Classes
• Case management
• Weekly therapy

Stand Up Placer recognizes that children who have been living in a home with violence enter the safe house with their own special needs and concerns. Our children’s advocate will work with parents and therapists to assess each child entering the safe house and develop a program which meets the individual needs of each child.

Web pages

• Stand Up Placer - https://standupplacer.org/

Blossom Place provides safe housing, one-on-one support, and resources so former foster and at-risk young women ages 18-24 can learn life skills, achieve their goals, and gain the confidence to blossom into who they are meant to be.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.blossomplace.org/

The Coordinated Entry system provides a telephone hotline that serves as a centralized gateway for people who are homeless and in need of services in Nevada and Placer counties.

People who are homeless may call 1-833-3PLACER (1-833-375-2237) in Placer County, and 2-1-1 in Nevada County (or 877-847-0499 from outside Nevada County). Callers will be asked questions to determine their eligibility for various housing programs. Their needs are shared with participating Homeless Resource Council of the Sierras' homeless service providers.

The Homeless Resource Helplines help homeless service agencies throughout Placer and Nevada Counties better coordinate services and prioritize needs. Homeless individuals have their needs assessed in a consistent manner, and the confidential data is placed into a centralized database, the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS). The helpline is also available in Spanish.

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