CityTeam Ministries

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 68,000 shelter nights across sites and Cityteam served over 420,000 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.

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 over 12,000 nights of transitional housing.

Community outreach (Cityteam in the neighborhood) - in response to continually growing needs in our community, we expanded our neighborhood outreach to help families make ends meet. In the san francisco bay area, mobile food pantries for at-risk households increased to 37 drive-throughs in the south bay, 16 in alameda county and 4 in san mateo county, enabling Cityteam to distribute over 4.4m pounds of food. We also launched the mobile food pantry program in chester, Pennsylvania with 5 pantry locations distributing over 2.1m pounds of food. Cityteam has recently started a popup clothing closet program, regularly distributing much needed clothing at pantry locations served. A free mobile food truck provides weekly hot meals to underserved areas and food deserts in san francisco, and through our hope on wheels program at 8 locations in santa clara county, hot meals are provided at homeless encampments five days per week. Across Cityteam locations, we provided regular groceries for low-income households, christmas toys for families in need, backpacks filled with school supplies, hundreds of tablets for distance learning, and thousands of masks and hygiene kits to give help and hope to men, women, and children in our community.

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 3,400 nights of housing provided.cityteam Ministries also offers family and youth camping, and other essential services.