By Russell Stiger Jr. and Faye Wilson Kennedy
The hungry homeless can contact 211 for immediate assistance and a list of local resources, visit the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services website for their food finder tool, or go directly to organizations like Sacramento Loaves & Fishes for hot meals and groceries. They can also access the CMB (Community Movement Builders) Neighbor Program for grocery distribution multiple days a week. The Union Gospel Mission also offers free hot meals nightly and a men’s shelter.
- The Sacramento Food Bank serves unhoused and poor individuals and families.
- The Community Movement Builders Neighbor Program is the Sacramento Branch of CMB.
- Sacramento Loaves and Fishes.
- DOZ Enterpryz represents a group of youth, men and women who have faced and defeated various hardships, lifestyles and experiences.
- River City Food Bank’s emergency food distribution sites in Midtown and Arden-Arcade help Sacramento County residents avoid a crisis by providing healthy, nutritious food options. Their help allows clients to meet basic living expenses without having to make the difficult decision to choose between eating and paying bills.
- Sacramento County offers a listing of food resources.
Showers By Touchstone
Public shower facilities provide showers, baths, or other facilities where individuals experiencing homelessness, travelers, and others who do not have access to private bathing facilities can wash. If you need assistance finding a public shower facility, dial 2-1-1 or 916-498-1000.
- 116 N. 16th St. (Pipeworks back lot): 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays (adults only), services include showers, clothes, food, mobile medicine; 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Saturdays, services include hot meals and clothes.
- 2406 Del Paso Road (Encounter Church parking lot): 9 a.m.-noon, showers provided on second Saturdays.
- 22nd and J streets (FUMC parking lot): 8 a.m.-noon, showers provided on last two Saturdays.
- Helping Our Unhoused Neighbors Sacramento.
This series was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2025 California Health Equity Fellowship