• Shelter and Services

Habitat for Humanity

Creates home ownership opportunities for families with limited incomes and assists with home repairs. Homeowners, with help from volunteers, are involved in building their homes to create a sense of ownership. Saint Timothy's took part in a build in June.

Liaison:  Dave Kutrosky

Hope Solutions (formerly CCIH)

Provides supportive housing programs and services at Garden Parks Apartments (housing 28 families) and at 56 scattered housing sites for formerly homeless and mentally disabled adults. Offers Homework Club at four low-income sites to help bring youth up to school level in order to succeed and to break the cycle of poverty. 

It is partnering to develop 6 tiny homes for low-income people on the property of Grace Presbyterian Church in Walnut Creek.

 *This is a Navigation Center, a model program, one of four sites in Contra Cost County to coordinate supportive services such as case management for benefits, housing and employment given through partner providers.

Liaison: Leslie Firth

Shelter, Inc.

Prevents homelessness in Contra Costa County with over 225 affordable units, transitional housing, services and counseling. They provide wrap-around services such as housing and job search, mental health counseling, tutoring, budgeting, and legal services for sheltered and housed participants.  They rapidly rehouse those who have lost their housing with short term rental subsidies. 

*This is a Navigation Center.

Liaison:  Alison Hill

• Hunger Prevention and Services

Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa

Loaves and Fishes nourishes lives and feeds the hungry from five kitchens. The newest is at Trinity Center. During Covid-19 they are serving in “to-go” containers and giving bags of food on weekdays, and weekends at two locations. They prepare 1,500+ meals daily and have served 5.5 million meals since 1983.  They run a culinary training program for those who want training to enter the restaurant profession. They are acquiring a food van which will expand their ability to bring food to more locations in need.

Liaison: Leslie Firth         

Monument Crisis Center (MCC)

Food pantry with many services and programs to help individuals and families in the Bay Area.  During Covid-19, they are giving food to anyone. They now own their own building through fundraising and federal grants.  St. Timothy's has food barrels to collect food for MCC.  We also gather food boxes as a major project for MCC during the holidays.  

Liaison: Sally Shea Potts

Trinity Center 

Trinity Center's Day shelter, in the new Saint Paul's Commons building in Walnut Creek, provides food, clothing, cleanliness, security, support, communication and healthcare to about 50 people daily and more than 970 individuals yearly.  It partners with Loaves and Fishes to provide meals for those in need.  

*This is a Navigation Center.  

 Liaisons:  Steve Mason and Mae Warren     

•  Addiction Recovery Services

Options Recovery Services

Model drug treatment services, breaking the cycle of addiction, and providing  housing for the underserved in Berkeley and Oakland. Working with courts and in prisons with rehabilitation counseling throughout the Bay Area. They own eight sites and are housing 100 clients.  They recently opened the new Tom Gorham Center and are developing a program to provide safe and sober reentry services for up to 25 former inmates at the facility.  It is their 25th year in 2022, and they will be expanding their services in Contra Costa County in August.  

Liaisons:  Peg Miller & Patti Farris

• Global Health and Nursing

GAIA Global Health

Liaison:  Diane Carpenter

The Gretta Foundation

The Gretta Foundation’s mission is to provide in-country nursing education to impoverished persons living in disease-burdened nations while bolstering depleted healthcare workforces and improving patient care and outcomes. It provides scholarships in nursing and midwifery in Uganda.

Liaison:  Tania Hansen De Young

• Mental Health Counseling

Discovery Counseling Center

Offers comprehensive, affordable and accessible mental wellness services in times of difficulty and life transitions in Danville.                         

Liaison:  Nancy Lucas

The Comfort Cub

Designed to be a therapeutic Teddy Bear for those experiencing a broken heart because of trauma, such as losing a child, experiencing the loss of a loved one, or divorce. The Comfort cub is weighted therapy proven to aid in the production of hormones that help heal.   

Liaison:  Nancy Lucas

• Support Ministries                         

PFLAG (Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays)

Working to ensure that people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer are valued by society, and take pride in and value themselves. We do this through providing peer-to-peer support, educating people on the issues, and advocating for inclusive policies and laws. 

Liaison:  Steve Mason 

The Respite Inn

A bed and breakfast style home for overnight stays, care and activities for persons with developmental disabilities ages 18 to 59 enabling families to have a periodic break from care-giving. 

Liaison:  Carleen Carns