Sierra First Baptist Church operates a weekly food pantry providing free canned goods to individuals and families in need each Thursday from 10am-12pm.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.sfbcalta.org/

SB1383 will commence on January 1st, 2025

Nevada County jurisdictions are working out details to implement SB1383 and inform the public. Info will be added when available and confirmed. https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/3466/Organics-Recycling

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Waste Management provides a full range of residential and commercial solid waste collection services, including curbside pick-up, curbside recycling, environmental services, dumpsters and waste and recycling receptacles. Medication disposal available at 13083 Grass Valley Ave. Grass Valley (Main office for Nevada County).
Home-Generated Sharps - https://www.wm.com/location/california/nevada_county/recycling/hhw.jsp

• Sharps include needles, syringes, pen needles & lancets.
• It is illegal to put these items in the trash or recycling. By law they must be transported in approved biohazard sharps containers, which are sold at pharmacies.
• Accepted (only in approved biohazard containers) at the McCourtney Road Tra…

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The Sierra Vista Community Center offers community service programs, activities, and classes for all age groups in the Colfax area. Sierra Vista sponsors activities and rents our facility, which includes meeting space, a gymnasium, commercial kitchen, and ball field.

Regular monthly distributions from Feeding The Foothills are available at the Free Farmers Market at Sierra Vista Community Center. Drive-Thru only food distribution. Open to everyone.

• Location: Colfax Sierra Vista Community Center at 55 School St., Colfax, CA 95713
• Hours: 2nd Monday of each month 10am-12pm
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://sierravistacommunitycenter.com/

Shekinah Care, In-Home Care for Seniors provides fee-based long- and short-term in-home care for seniors.

Services include:

• Personal care including bathing, grooming, dressing, mobility assistance
• Palliative care
• Alzheimer's and dementia care
• Healthy food prep

Provides a thorough assessment of home and living conditions to point out possible health and safety issues and determine what type of assistance is needed. The choice to make any changes in the home environment and care should involve the client and all available family members and health care professionals. Fingerprinted for safe and reliable help.

Call for appointment and then an in-home assessment will be done to ascertain the level of services that are required. Services for in-home care are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Shifts can be any length of time with minimum shift of 4 hours.

Web pages

• Home - https://shekinahcare.org/
• Services - https://shekinahcare.org/services

The San Juan Ridge PARTNERS Family Resource Center (FRC) provides families in the San Juan Ridge area with information and referrals to local resources, services, and facilities on a drop-in basis for visitors of all ages.

It also assists families with child development, parenting support, counseling, education, and employment tools. It also offers playgroups (Tue/Th 10am-12pm) for families with children ages 0-5, and weekly activities for older children.

Note:

• The FRC does not have any housing resources and does NOT have any gift cards, gas cards, etc.
• The FRC does offer a computer, phone, fax, printer, children's play space, clothes closet, food pantry (12pm-3pm Tue & Thurs + by emergencies), diapers, lending and reference libraries, information, referrals, parenting support, weekly children's playgroup, summer camps, adult yoga (Mon 6pm-7:15pm & Wed 9am-10:30am), ASQ's, children's dance classes, and periodic events.

The San Juan Ridge Family Resource Center has laundry vouchers…

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The Nevada City Farmers Market offers locally grown and produced products from farmers, artisans, food vendors, and makers.

Contact: Market Manager, manager@ncfarmersmarket.org, 530-277-9960

SATURDAY FARMERS MARKETS

2024 Summer Market

• April 13-December 21, 2024 from 8:30am-1pm
• Downtown Nevada City on Union Street between Broad Street and Commercial Street, Nevada City, CA 95959

2025 Winter Market

• Jan 11-April 5, 2024 from 9 am-1 pm
• 505 Main Street, Nevada City, SAEL School Auditorium, Nevada City, CA 95959

Web pages

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

The Nevada County Food & Farm Directory is a product directory for local farms and ranches, including contact information. Updated annually. Many of the listed farms and ranches participate in local Farmers Markets.

Web pages

• Home - https://sierraharvest.org/food-and-farm-directory/

Sierra Harvest's Gold Country Gleaning Program organizes volunteers to harvest fresh, seasonal produce that would otherwise go to waste and donates it to local food banks. Volunteers are encouraged to take gleaned goodies home too.

Web pages

• Home - https://sierraharvest.org/
• Gold Country Gleaning Program - https://sierraharvest.org/gleaning/
• Request Gleaning - https://sierraharvest.org/gleaning/site_registration.php
• Volunteer to Glean - https://sierraharvest.org/gleaning/volregistration.php

If you suspect fraud with CalFresh (Food Stamps/EBT), Medi-Cal Coverage, General Assistance, CalWORKs, or any other County of Nevada Social Services program, call 530-265-1792 or email dss@nevadacountyca.gov
 

Drop-in benefits information and application assistance is provided by the Navigator team from the Nevada County Department of Social Services at three libraries each month. Stop by if you need help enrolling in, or renewing your participation in, benefits programs such as

• Cash Assistance - CalWORKs & more
• Food Assistance - CalFresh
• Healthcare - Medi-Cal
• Housing
• In-Home Supportive Services
• Veterans Services

While these resources are always available to the public, having them all together during the Services Drop-In allows you to learn, at the same meeting, such things as what kind of support is available for seniors, how you can proceed with child support, and which doctors take your insurance. These are drop-in services and no appointment is necessary.

Social Services Drop-In days and locations

• Grass Valley Library, 207 Mill St, Grass Valley, CA 95945, 530-273-4117
  • First Tuesdays, 10:30am-12:30pm
  • First Saturdays, 10am-2pm
• Madelyn Helling Library, 980 Helling Way, Nevada City, CA 95959,…

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