Homelessness and Food Insecurities

Feed the Children offers many resources to our local community as well as others throughout the Midwest. We have a “free” teacher store for pre-approved districts (in Elkhart County and beyond within a 50 mile radius). We provide food and essential boxes through sponsored events to help families in need. Our Mission: Providing hope and…

Our mission as a non-profit, faith-based organization, is to provide services to meet the essential needs of anyone with a limited income. We provide breakfast, hot and cold lunches, food pantry, sandwiches in the afternoon, showers, laundry, clothing closet.

Youth Service Bureau of St. Joseph County (YSB) exists because all youth deserve safety and stability. Our entire community thrives when all young people have the opportunity to reach their full potential.    Founded in 1972, YSB has served tens of thousands of teenagers and young adults who have been homeless or at-risk of homelessness,

Cultivate Culinary School & Catering is devoted to ending the cycle of joblessness, poverty, and hunger in the local communities of northern Indiana by providing a food rescue service and job training in the culinary arts. Food rescue is the practice of gathering edible food that would otherwise go to waste from places such as

Unity Gardens unique dignified free food model has connected our community to fresh produce for 8 years in the St. Joseph County through ~40 open gardens, free wellness programs & classes reaching thousands of families & children to reduce food insecurity & social isolation. “How can we provide food security while empowering those we help?

Faith Mission of Elkhart provides emergency and transitional shelter, food, counseling, support and a gateway to possibilities for homeless adults and families with children.

The Food Bank of Northern Indiana serves Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall, Starke and St. Joseph Counties. The Food Bank utilizes volunteers to work in the food pantry assisting clients and stocking ,sorting bread & pastries, assembling Food 4 Kids bags, mobile pantries, assembling senior bags/boxes, etc. Together, we can solve hunger.

Who We Are: The mission of the Center for the Homeless is to break the cycle of homelessness, bring together disparate groups so that each can discover the worth, dignity, and potential of the other, and to pioneer a service model that is worth replication. What We Do: The Center for the Homeless offers homeless