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
• DMV ve…

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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/

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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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/

The Crisis Resolution Center provides a toll-free 24-hour telephone number (available to teens and family members residing in Placer County only) for referrals, personal support, advice, and counsel to teens and parents/caregivers/guardians in crisis.

The Crisis Resolution Center provides solution-focused, trauma-informed, and person focus family intervention; which resolves family crises and establishes reunification of children ages 12-17 with their families. The Crisis Resolution Center, located in Loomis California, is a six-bed (co-ed) facility with counseling services, fully licensed and professionally staffed to provide short-term out-client family services and short-term residential care.

The team of trained house parents, child care workers, and a CRC Case Manager offers:

• Relationship counseling
• Conflict resolution
• Parent-child training
• Referral services

Short-term residential placement for teenagers ages 12-17 (average stay is approximately one to two weeks).Youth at the Crisis…

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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 Emergency Warming Center (EWC) in Truckee provides shelter when winter weather triggers opening.

Weather Triggers That Allow Opening:

• A temperature of 15 degrees F. or less with windchill
• One foot or more of snow predicted overnight
• Other severe or extreme weather condition/s as forecasted by the National Weather Service such as heavy rain or winds
• and sufficient staff and volunteer coverage
  
  

Guest Rules:

• No violence. Physical actions, sexual advances, threatening behavior, verbal harassment, or foul language.
• No possession or use of alcohol, drugs, medical marijuana, or weapons in or around the perimeter of the Warming Center.
• If you come into the EWC under the influence of drugs or alcohol, you must be able to take care of yourself and follow all of the guest rules. Or the hospital and police will be involved for safety.
• All personal belongings will be checked in and returned upon check out. Some items (personal care, change of clothing, paperwork can be kept in a provided clear pl…

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