Provides various services for those who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming unhoused.

Offers information and resource navigation for individuals experiencing homelessness in Allegheny County. Services include the following:

Provides information and answers questions about emergency shelters and engagement centers for individuals experiencing homelessness in Allegheny County.

Makes connections to street outreach for individuals experiencing literal homelessness in Allegheny County.

Assesses eligibility for housing programs for people experiencing literal homelessness in Allegheny County.

Provides basic items needed for survival such as tents, tarps, sleeping bags, water, food, and clothing.

Provides free medical care to the residents of City Mission and referrals from City Mission's WeCare Street Outreach program.

Provides screening, assessment, assistance with immediate needs, and referral to other service providers for those facing housing instability and homelessness in Montgomery County. Partners with Your Way Home to quality individuals for housing support.

An emergency street outreach program providing case management and social service navigation assistance to individuals experiencing homelessness. Meets individuals where they are and helps to address their most basic needs. Conducting client-led case management allows clients to address concerns they may have and reach the assistance they may need/want.

Operates 5 days a week. Outreach workers go out to neighborhoods, parks, and other places where youth who are facing homelessness seek refuge. Offers food, drink, blankets, hats, gloves and scarves, counseling, and referrals to youth who are on the street or unable to come into shelter.

Provides a continuum of care for chronically mentally ill and substance abusing homeless populations. Includes shelter outreach, day therapeutic programming for the dually diagnosed, outpatient, and supported independent living. Programming is accessible through the homeless shelter system or through the Alternative Services Unit of the Behavioral Health.

Emergency Services and Crisis Intervention services provide JFK Mobile Emergency Team, Central Intake / Crisis Intervention, Crisis Specialist and Outreach to the Homeless. Crisis intervention at any location is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. An outgrowth of the JFK Mobile Emergency Team is the Crisis Specialist Program. Crisis Specialist professionals meet the consumer at his or her location, stay to stabilize the situation and determine if further care is needed. This service is also available through the same delegate line as the JFK Mobile Emergency Team. Central Intake / Crisis Intervention provides a central access point to help reduce the use of psychiatric hospitalization and connect people to services with the least disruption possible to their everyday lives. Outreach to the homeless is ongoing and takes place in various areas of the city as the need arises.

Provides services to assist with housing needs. Services include homelessness prevention, help to regain housing stability; Street Outreach to connect unsheltered homeless individuals or families with emergency shelter, critical health and mental health services; and Rapid Rehousing for quick return to permanent housing. May also help with your security deposit and/or rent.

Provides services to assist with housing needs. Services include homelessness prevention, help to regain housing stability; Street Outreach to connect unsheltered homeless individuals or families with emergency shelter, critical health and mental health services; and Rapid Rehousing for quick return to permanent housing. May also help with security deposit and/or rent.

Provides services to assist with housing needs. Services include homelessness prevention, help to regain housing stability; Street Outreach to connect unsheltered homeless individuals or families with emergency shelter, critical health and mental health services; and Rapid Rehousing for quick return to permanent housing. May also help with your security deposit and/or rent.

Provides services to assist with housing needs. Services include homelessness prevention, help to regain housing stability; Street Outreach to connect unsheltered homeless individuals or families with emergency shelter, critical health and mental health services; and Rapid Rehousing for quick return to permanent housing. May also help with your security deposit and/or rent.

Provides services to assist with housing needs. Services include homelessness prevention, help to regain housing stability; Street Outreach to connect unsheltered homeless individuals or families with emergency shelter, critical health and mental health services; and Rapid Rehousing for quick return to permanent housing. May also help with your security deposit and/or rent payment.

Provides services to assist with housing needs. Services include homelessness prevention, help to regain housing stability; Street Outreach to connect unsheltered homeless individuals or families with emergency shelter, critical health and mental health services; and Rapid Rehousing for quick return to permanent housing. May also help with your security deposit and/or rent payment.

Distributes supplies and services to displaced individuals and families of Schuylkill County. Provided are emergency food, clothing, and hygiene supplies. Supplies are made available by donation and are limited.

Street Outreach Workers reach out to the unsheltered and connects them with emergency shelters, housing or critical services. Also provides urgent, non-facility-based care to unsheltered who are unwilling or unable to access emergency shelter, housing or appropriate health facility.

A confidential, free, teen-friendly Health Resource Center for teens in Berks County. A safe place for answers to questions about abstinence, sexual health, how to get birth control and STD/HIV testing, and more. Available at Reading High School during school year.

A drop-in center (a day shelter) open to all adults. There are 3 meals a day, showers, lockers, assisting with IDs, an employment navigator, Street Medicine, parish nurses, case managers, intensive case managers for homeless individuals with mental illness, street outreach, coordinated entry, landlord engagement navigator, life skills, coping skills, and various housing programs offering short and long term rental assistance.


Housing support

Case management available

Bilingual staff

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides a street outreach program designed to help runaway, homeless, nomadic and street youth in Bucks County, Philadelphia, Allentown, and Dauphin County. The program offers survival supplies (food, clothes, hygienic products, sleeping bags, tents, tarps, etc.), peer support, informal counseling (individual, family, or group), information and referral services and assistance to get off the streets, if desired.

Provides prevention services in schools as well as at the CCYSB youth centers and street outreach sites. Prevention Programs are designed to address the risks that make it more likely that kids will use drugs and alcohol or make other unsafe decisions. They include educational activities as well as educational presentations for schools, community groups, and parents.

Provides mobile street outreach solutions to address the challenges of violence, homelessness, and overall community disconnection. Offers support and survival gear such as backpacks, tents, and other gear. Connects callers to local resources. Street outreach teams will increase the distribution of water, sunscreen, and cooling towels (as supply allows).

Street Outreach

Adults' and childrens' used clothing, shoes and small household items are available through the Righteous Clothing Store, sponsored by the Parkesburg Methodist Church. The store is open to all those in need. We do not discriminate or judge those who come in to the store. There are no prices on the clothes. We do accept cash donations of any amount. However anyone unable to give a donation is welcome to take whatever clothing they need at no charge.The Clothing Store is located at 317 West Main Street in Parkesburg.

CHART is an evaluation process used to determine which type of housing intervention best matches the needs of individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

Standardized and coordinated assessment and referral service for everyone who is seeking services from the network of homeless services.

All in season clothing and accessory donations. Must be clean. Need Men and children clothing, socks, new underwear and undergarments and backpacks. Drop off items at the wood doors facing German Street during Office hours.

Registration Date(s): Open enrollment
Registration Fee: $75 (non-refundable)
Months of Operation: September-May; Summer camps available

Tuition: Call for information

Sibling Discount: Yes
Scholarships: Yes, available
Additional Day Care:
Lunch Bunch: Monday through Thursday, 11:30am to 1:00pm. Ages 3-5 years. $11.50 a day
Extended Learning Program: Monday through Thursday, 11:30am to 3:00pm. Ages 2-5.
Additional Education: May and Summer Camp
Notes: Kids Express Preschool is an outreach of Grace Church at Willow Valley. A Christian preschool whose mission is to provide a loving Christian setting in which preschoolers are encouraged to grow academically, emotionally, socially, physically and spiritually.