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Homelessness Prevention Service Providers' Websites
These nonprofit homeless prevention service agencies have been funded by the City of Greensboro for Fiscal Year 2010-11.
Housing Counseling and Information Referral Programs
Greensboro Housing Coalition
The Housing Hotline offers crisis intervention, information / referrals, and housing counseling on any questions about housing. Contact 336-691-9521 for more information.
NC Housing Search
A free service for finding and listing affordable housing for renters and landlords. Contact 877-428-8844 for more information.
Greensboro Housing Authority
Greensboro Housing Authority provides safe, quality, affordable housing to low-income families, elderly and the disabled in the Greensboro community. Contact 336-275-8501 for more information.
Emergency Shelter, Transitional Shelter, and Emergency Assistance Programs Greensboro Urban Ministry
Greensboro Urban Ministry provides crisis intervention and emergency services through the basics of food, shelter, and clothing. It also helps many individuals and families break the cycle of poverty, hunger, addiction, and homelessness. Contact 336-271-5959 for more information.
Salvation Army of Greensboro
The Salvation Army of Greensboro provides 20 single women, 36 single men, and 10 families with food and emergency or transitional housing. Contact 336-273-4542 for more information.
Family Services of the Piedmont
Family Services of the Piedmont provides a 24-hour crisis line and a victim advocate program for victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and other violent crime. Clara House in Greensboro and Carpenter House in High Point offer a temporary residence, along with a host of other services, for women and children escaping domestic violence. Contact 336-387-6161 for more information.
Guilford Interfaith Hospitality Network
Guilford Interfaith Hospitality Network (GIHN) is a group of local congregations in Guilford County, which work together to provide temporary housing and hospitality to homeless families in the community. Contact 336-574-0333 for more information.
Joseph's House
Joseph's House seeks to improve the lives of homeless young adults through caring, compassion, love, and instruction by providing shelter, food, clothing, and other supportive services. To participant in the program an individual may possess broken family ties, be a high school dropout, have a history of drug or criminal behavior, be a victim of abuse, or have aged out of foster care. Contact 336-389-9880 for more information.
Jericho House (no website)
Jericho House provides housing and supportive services to men coming out of prison. The program's objective is to give these men a "fair and just" opportunity to turn their lives around. The recidivism rate in North Carolina is more than 75 percent and Jericho House wants to end this cycle. The program provides clients a safe, stable living environment; assistance with finding employment; help with improving their communication skills and relationship skills; help with financial budgeting and support and encouragement for saving some of what they earn. Contact 336-275-9625 for more information.
Mary's House
Mary's House ministry provides transitional housing to women in recovery from substance abuse and their minor children. The program assists residents with in-house substance abuse issues, and case management concerns. The program also teaches parenting skills and assist mothers in assuring their children meet development milestones. Contact 336-275-0820 for more information.
Room at the Inn of the Carolinas
Room at the Inn of the Carolinas, Inc. is a unique, comprehensive program that helps homeless, single, pregnant women (with or without previous children), not only during their pregnancies but also after the birth. This is accomplished by providing shelter, food, clothing, case management, in-house daycare, transportation, life-skills education, and counseling in a structured environment. Mary C. Nussbaum Maternity Home helps these families have new lives of health, hope, and self sufficiency. Contact 336-275-9566 for more information.
The Servant Center
The Servant Center provides transitional and permanent housing for disabled homeless men, along with food assistance for low income, elderly and disabled clients. The program also helps disabled clients referred by area hospitals to apply for Social Security disability benefits. In 2005, a grant from the Veterans Administration (VA) allowed the Center to begin a partnership with the VA and Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro to provide end-of-life care at Servant House for five veterans. Contact 336-275-8585 for more information.
Youth Focus
Youth Focus provides a wide range of services to at-risk and troubled young people ages 5-21. Services include Big Brother Big Sisters, professional counseling, family preservation services (intensive in-home counseling and family therapy), community support services, therapeutic foster care, an emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth, two psychiatric day treatment programs, a 10-bed residential adolescent substance abuse program, a Transitional Living Program, and a locked Level IV Psychiatric Residential Treatment Center. Contact 336-375-8333 for more information.
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