Cityteam Ministries

Community outreach (Cityteam in the neighborhood): in response to continually growing needs in our community, we continued to expand our neighborhood outreach to help families make ends meet. Cityteam operated mobile food pantries for at-risk households at 62 locations in California in the counties of santa clara, alameda, san mateo, and san francisco. This enabled Cityteam to distribute over 4.7m pounds of food in the bay area. In chester Pennsylvania, with 5 pantry locations, we distributed over 1.5m pounds of food. Cityteam's popup clothing closet program regularly distributed much needed clothing at pantry locations served. Our hope on wheels program, a free mobile food truck, provided approximately 40,000 meals and bags of food to underserved areas and food deserts at 7 locations in santa clara county. Hot meals were provided at homeless encampments 5 days per week. Across Cityteam locations we provided regular groceries, clothing, hygiene products, and household goods to low-income households. We also provided additional resources during seasonal events such as christmas toys during the christmas holidays and backpacks filled with school supplies for back to school. By addressing these needs on a regularly scheduled basis we provided help and hope to men, women, and children in our community.

Transitional housing (Cityteam turning point): to address the growing issue of homelessness, Cityteam's turning point program serves unsheltered single women, women with children, and single men - providing them with supportive transitional housing for 6-12 months while receiving counseling, case management, job support, and other services helping them to achieve self sufficiency and stability. Services include helping them to establish a permanent housing plan, assess a career path and pursue employment, create savings accounts, and participate in life skills classes such as parenting, budgeting, fitness and nutrition, etc. Cityteam turning point provided 22,000 nights of transitional housing and over 31,000 meals.

Housing & restorative programs (Cityteam renew & Cityteam connect): Cityteam provides vital programs to people struggling with homelessness, poverty and addiction. Our homeless resources and longer term residential programs provide hot meals, safe shelter, showers, clean clothing, counseling, spiritual mentorship, education, career counseling, and life transformation. Throughout Cityteam locations, men, women, and children at risk found safe shelter with us, totaling over 82,000 shelter nights across sites and Cityteam served approximately 520,000 meals across our kitchens. With programs in san jose, san francisco, and oakland, as well as portland, Oregon and chester, Pennsylvania, Cityteam helps care for immediate needs and enables lasting solutions.

Economic empowerment (Cityteam @ work): education, training, and certification programs to help men and women in our residential programs find living-wage jobs, affordable housing, and budget for financial sustainability. The level of education for each student varies widely, with some participants who never completed high school, while others hold college degrees. Each student has an individualized learning plan to master skills in writing, math, reading, comprehension, and computer literacy. Life skills are an important element of the learning and career center, which ensure students know how to make and keep a budget, write a resume, and interview for a job. We also provide business clothes for interviews.bridge housing (Cityteam forward): affordable living to help graduates move forward as active members of the community and create a strong foundation for bringing families back together.youth housing (Cityteam youth collective): residential supportive housing program helping to prevent homelessness by providing a loving community for at-risk youth. More than 4,500 nights of housing provided.cityteam Ministries also offers family and youth camping, and other essential services.