Meal Distribution Partner Agencies
Adam's Place
Adam's Place provides 12-hour and 24-hour emergency shelter during hypothermia days, and comprehensive case-management services to homeless single adult men 18 years or older. Clients have access to showers, support groups, and computer training classes. DC Central Kitchen sends Adams Place 150 dinners every day of the year.
Arlington Emergency Winter Shelter
Arlington Emergency Winter Shelter provides homeless men and women shelter, clothing, showers, case management, and other social services during the hypothermia season. From November to March, DC Central Kitchen sends Arlington Emergency Winter Shelter 46 hot dinners every evening.
Arlington Street People Assistance Network
Arlington Street People Assistance Network (A-SPAN) provides meals for homeless individuals at two outdoor locations along the Ballston/Rosslyn corridor. A-SPAN offers the “Homeless Bagged Meal Program,” which serves men and women a bagged meal and a cup of hot stew or soup. Volunteers prepare the bagged meals and DC Central Kitchen provides the hot stew. DC Central Kitchen sends A-SPAN 60 hot dinners every day of the year.
www.a-span.org/programs.html#hbmp
Blair House
Blair House provides transitional and shelter facilities for homeless men who are experiencing unemployment, alcohol or drug abuse, chronic poverty or family problems. Programs are intended to help individuals achieve self-sufficiency. DC Central Kitchen sends Blair House 85 breakfasts and dinners every day of the year.
Brethren Nutrition Program
Brethren Nutrition Program is the only daily lunch program for poor and homeless men and women in the Capitol Hill area. Each day, clients receive a hot meal, which usually consists of soup, bread, and a casserole or pasta dish. Each week, DC Central Kitchen sends the Brethren Nutrition Program 75 meals, which add variety to their menu.
Catholic Charities 801 East Building
Catholic Charities 801 East Building provides 12-hour shelter and 24-hour emergency shelter during hypothermia days and comprehensive case-management services to homeless single adult men 18 years or older. Clients have access to showers and limited social services. 801 East also has a transitional recovery program for 50 men. DC Central Kitchen sends 801 East 415 dinners and 415 breakfasts every day of the year. This is the only food many of the clients eat all day.
Charlie’s Place
Charlie’s Place serves homeless individuals a hot breakfast four mornings a week. In addition to providing nutritious meals, Charlie’s Place offers clothing distribution, barbering services, writing classes, toiletries, and referrals to other social-services agencies. Clients have access to basic medical care provided by a registered nurse. DC Central Kitchen sends Charlie’s Place 550 breakfasts every week.
www.stmargaretsdc.org/charliesplace
Clean and Sober Streets
Clean and Sober Streets provides homeless men and women year long residential treatment facilities that include detoxification, substance-abuse treatment/rehabilitation and aftercare treatment. Clean and Sober also offers vocational and educational rehabilitation including GED, computer literacy, job readiness, job referral, job/apprenticeship, family therapy and counseling, and housing referral and placement. DC Central Kitchen sends Clean and Sober Streets 75 dinners every day of the year.
cleanandsoberstreets.org/index.htm
Covenant House Washington Crisis Shelter
Covenant House Washington Crisis Shelter provides short-term shelter for youth with immediate housing needs. It ensures the physical safety and emotional stability that youth require while contending with the pressures of street life or unstable homes. DC Central Kitchen sends Covenant House Washington 25 breakfasts and 25 lunches every day of the year.
Creative Community for Non-Violence
Creative Community for Non-Violence (CCNV) provides homeless men and women with shelter and various social services, including drug and alcohol rehabilitation, education and cultural activities, as well as medical, dental, and mental-health care. It is a resident-run facility that also serves as a hypothermia shelter. DC Central Kitchen sends CCNV 675 dinners every day of the year.
DC General Building 9
DC General Building 9 provides homeless men shelter during hypothermia season. It offers emergency shelter in the evening, and it recently opened a day program that provides social services. DC Central Kitchen sends Building 9 50 breakfasts, 50 lunches, and 144 dinners every day during hypothermia season.
Earth Conservation Corps
Earth Conservation Corps provides unemployed and out-of-school young adults with hands-on environmental training, career skills, and leadership training while working to restore the heavily polluted Anacostia River and surrounding communities. DC Central Kitchen sends Earth Conservation Corps 25 lunches each day Monday-Friday.
EFFORTS
EFFORTS aids and supports ex-offenders and recovering substance abusers as they work to re-enter society. EFFORTS provides employment opportunities and gives alternatives to drugs and crime. Steps to avoid relapse are put into effect. DC Central Kitchen sends EFFORTS 30 lunches per week.
Eleanor U. Kennedy Shelter
Eleanor U. Kennedy Shelter provides 50 shelter beds for adults. Clients receive case management, mental-health and substance-abuse counseling, and health care services. DC Central Kitchen sends Eleanor U. Kennedy Shelter 50 lunches on Saturdays.
Emery House
Emery House provides accessible overnight shelter, food, clothing and supportive social services. The primary goal is to assist individuals seeking access to other services, which include employment, medical care, substance-abuse counseling, and transitional and permanent housing. Emery also has a transitional housing program to help their clients gain permanent self-sufficiency. DC Central Kitchen sends Emery House 100 breakfasts and 100 dinners every day of the year.
Emmaus Services for the Aging
Emmaus Services for the Aging serves as a drop-in program for senior citizens. Emmaus reaches out to seniors to provide support through advocacy and services that help them remain active, respected, independent and vital members of their community. Seniors are connected with key staff to help them continue to live independently in their own homes. DC Central Kitchen sends Emmaus Services for the Aging 30 lunches each day Monday-Friday. The Kitchen also leads monthly healthy cooking and healthy eating classes for seniors.
Father McKenna Center
Father McKenna Center provides a drop-in center for homeless men where they receive meals, showers, laundry facilities, informal counseling, support groups, job-search assistance, referrals, and other support towards a more stable lifestyle. Emergency food bags are distributed daily for families, senior citizens, and disabled people. The Father McKenna Center also has a night shelter for five to six men, a hypothermia shelter, and regular Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. DC Central Kitchen sends Father McKenna Center 100 lunches every week.
www.stalschurchdc.org/mckenna.htm
Franklin School Shelter
Franklin School Shelter provides 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. emergency shelter for homeless men 18 years or older. It also serves as a hypothermia shelter. DC Central Kitchen sends Franklin School Shelter 300 dinners every day of the year.
Girls’ Outreach Program
Girls’ Outreach Program is an after-school program for at-risk and court-involved girls. This 10-month program serves female adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18. The program provides its participants with structure and support at the time of day when teenagers are most at risk for problematic behaviors. There are various curriculums, including responsible sexuality and teen pregnancy prevention, employability, self-esteem/body image, and healthy eating and living, among many others. DC Central Kitchen sends the Girls’ Outreach Program 15 dinners Monday through Friday, and also provides the program with free nutrition-education classes.
Harriet Tubman Women’s Shelter
Harriet Tubman Women’s Shelter provides overnight shelter for homeless women. It is located on the ground of DC General Hospital in Southeast. DC Central Kitchen sends Harriet Tubman Women’s Shelter 75 dinners every day of the year.
Hermano Pedro Women’s Shelter
Hermano Pedro Women’s Shelter provides overnight shelter for homeless women. It is also a hypothermia shelter. DC Central Kitchen sends Hermano Pedro Women’s Shelter 25 meals every day of the year.
Hypothermia churches
Hypothermia churches provide homeless men with additional shelter locations from November until March. (Hypothermia is a life-threatening condition that occurs when temperature and wind-chill factor fall below 32 degrees Fahrenheit and body temperature becomes dangerously below 95 degrees Fahrenheit due to exposure in extreme cold.) DC Central Kitchen sends food to four churches that offer hypothermia beds: Community of Christ Church, Saint Luke’s Methodist Church, First Seventh Day Adventist Church, and Sacred Heart Church. DC Central Kitchen sends a total of 90 dinners each night to these four churches during hypothermia season.
Iglesias San Juan
Iglesias San Juan provides Hispanic people and recent immigrants to DC with a meal on Sunday afternoon. Many of their clients are employed but not earning enough to meet their needs, or they are receiving other assistance but it is not adequate. Iglesia San Juan is a partner in building a support network for these individuals. DC Central Kitchen sends Iglesia San Juan 75 lunches every weekend.
John Young Center
John Young Center provides single homeless adult females 12 hour emergency shelter from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. It is also a hypothermia shelter. DC Central Kitchen sends John Young Center 85 dinners every day of the year.
Kennedy Institute
Kennedy Institute assists men and women with developmental disabilities in the District of Columbia, Prince George’s County, and Montgomery County. Clients access career-track training and employment in high growth fields. Men and women participate in internships and on-site training. DC Central Kitchen sends 200 lunches each week to the Kennedy Institute’s food handler’s job-training class.
La Casa Multicultural Center
La Casa Multicultural Center provides accessible overnight shelter, food, clothing and supportive social services for 90 homeless men at an emergency shelter and an additional 40 beds in a separate transitional shelter. The transitional program gives clients the opportunity to receive intensive social services designed to help them achieve self-sufficiency. DC Central Kitchen sends La Casa Multicultural Center 40 breakfasts and 130 dinners every day of the year.
Latin American Youth Center Transitional Living Program
Latin American Youth Center Transitional Living Program provides runaway or homeless males, ages 16-21, with a transitional environment intended to lead them on the road to self-sufficient living. Residents receive case management; nutrition counseling, food preparation and other life-skills classes; drug and alcohol abuse prevention; assistance finding permanent housing; and other social services. DC Central Kitchen sends LAYC Transitional Living Program a Sunday dinner each week for approximately 15 residents.
Living Wages of Washington
Living Wages of Washington prepares its participants to become lifelong learners, to compete successfully in the job market, to become competent parents and family members, and to exercise their rights and responsibilities as citizens through active community involvement. Men and women receive individual tutoring to help them obtain GEDs or join the External Diploma Program, which is the equivalent of a high school diploma. DC Central Kitchen sends Living Wages 150 lunches each week. These lunches give the adults at Living Wages an incentive to spend more time learning at Living Wages, instead of leaving in the middle of the day.
Meade Memorial Episcopal Church Saturday Feeding Program
Meade Memorial Episcopal Church Saturday Feeding Program provides homeless, unemployed, and underemployed men and women in the Alexandria area with a hot lunch on Saturdays. DC Central Kitchen sends them 60 lunches every Saturday.
Mondloch House II
Mondloch House II is a 45-bed shelter for homeless families in Alexandria, Virginia. The shelter helps families with mental-health services, life-skills training, case management, job placement, substance-abuse services, and other social services. Mondloch House II falls under the umbrella of New Hope Housing, the largest provider of shelter beds in Northern Virginia. DC Central Kitchen sends Mondloch House II 50 lunches on Saturdays.
Neighbors’ Consejo Addiction Treatment Program
Neighbors’ Consejo Addiction Treatment Program provides all-day programs for homeless Latino men with mental illness and chronic substance-abuse problems. Clients complete a 12-step recovery program that includes 50 hours of individual and group intervention sessions over the course of three months. Clients also receive ESL instruction, computer training, and counseling. DC Central Kitchen sends Neighbor’s Consejo 25 lunches each day Monday- Friday.
New Endeavors by Women
New Endeavors by Women provides the transitional step between homelessness and self-sufficiency by offering consistent support and assistance to its clients. The women receive employment and educational training, work with staff to obtain affordable housing, participate in regular support groups, participate in recreational activities such as crafts projects, and receive other social services. DC Central Kitchen sends New Endeavors by Women 50 dinners every week.
New York Avenue Housing Assistance Center
New York Avenue Housing Assistance Center provides 12-hour and 24-hour emergency shelter and comprehensive case-management services to single adult men 18 years or older who are homeless. It is also a hypothermia shelter. DC Central Kitchen sends New York Avenue Housing Assistance Center 200 breakfasts and 360 dinners every day of the year.
Open Door Shelter
Open Door Shelter provides single adult women emergency shelter and case management, individual counseling, Narcotics Anonymous meetings, psychiatric assessments, referrals, and transitional services. DC Central Kitchen sends Open Door Shelter 126 dinners every day of the year.
Park Road Transitional House
Park Road Transitional House provides residential beds to men in a comfortable family environment. Programs are specifically tailored to the needs of men who are in transition from a substance-abuse treatment program, emergency shelters or other crisis situations. Men stay in Park Road for three months, and then many of them proceed to single-room occupancies at other social-services agencies. DC Central Kitchen sends Park Road Transitional House 15 dinners every day of the year.
Rachael’s Women’s Center
Rachael’s Women’s Center is a day shelter that provides refuge for homeless and formerly homeless women where they can develop life skills. Women receive food, showers, laundry facilities, case management, social activities, field trips, free legal services, and substance abuse and recovery support. DC Central Kitchen sends Rachael’s Women’s Center 150 lunches per week, and provides the women with nutrition-education lessons.
S.O.M.E. Center for Employment Training
S.O.M.E. Center for Employment Training empowers men and women out of poverty and into living-wage careers through marketable-skills training, human development, basic education and job development. S.O.M.E. C.E.T. has three job training programs: a business and customer-relations associate program, a medical assistant associate program, and a building-maintenance service-tech program. The 55 lunches that DC Central Kitchen sends each week to S.O.M.E. C.E.T. give their job training students an incentive to stay and learn throughout the whole day, instead of leaving at lunchtime. DC Central Kitchen also provides S.O.M.E. C.E.T. with regular nutrition-education lessons.
Salvation Army at Sherman Avenue
Salvation Army at Sherman Avenue serves lunch to men, women, and families. Clients have access to an emergency food pantry and a clothing-distribution center. The Sherman Avenue location connects clients with the Harvard Street Salvation Army, where they receive case management and assistance with financial matters, such as rent, utilities, or funeral expenses. DC Central Kitchen sends Salvation Army at Sherman Avenue 100 lunches every Friday.
Samaritan Inns Intensive Recovery Program
Samaritan Inns Intensive Recovery Program helps homeless, addicted people learn begin the process of recovery. This program helps clients restore their health and return to living productive lives. Warm beds, good meals, clean clothes, hot showers, and addictions education and counseling are all offered. Residents who complete this program typically move into transitional living facilities. DC Central Kitchen sends Samaritan Inns 80 lunches each week.
St. Matthias Mulumba House
St. Matthias Mulumba House is a transitional-housing program for homeless men recovering from chemical dependencies, mental illness and other disabilities. An emphasis on employment and vocational training leads to self-sufficiency and independent living. It offers case management, addictions counseling, employment counseling, and referrals. DC Central Kitchen sends St. Matthias Mulumba House 80 lunches each week.
The Children’s Center
The Children’s Center offers an after-school program which provides children between the ages of six and 14 with homework assistance, arts and crafts classes, reading lessons, computer classes, and organized team sports. DC Central Kitchen sends The Children’s Center 75 dinners three days per week.
The Dinner Program for Homeless Women
The Dinner Program for Homeless Women serves breakfast to over 200 homeless and hungry men and women, provides emergency social services, and serves as an outreach site for other social-service providers and partners. Every afternoon and evening, DPHW provides dinner and social services to DC’s most fragile and marginalized homeless women and their children. The Dinner Program meets the immediate needs of these individuals by providing a substantial, healthy meal and emergency supplies. DC Central Kitchen sends the Dinner Program for Homeless Women 600 breakfasts and 300 dinners every week.
Webster House
Webster House provides residential housing and supportive services to 12 homeless men who are often veterans. Services include food, substance-abuse counseling, case management, and employment and housing placement assistance. DC Central Kitchen sends Webster House 15 dinners every day of the year.
