Resources
For life's other needs.
Building stronger communities, together.
Our guests come from a variety of backgrounds. By providing a nutritious meal, we help people stretch their limited budgets to cover other necessities like shelter, clothing, and medical assistance. For many of our guests, the meal they receive at Community Kitchens is the only hot meal they will have all day. For some, it is their only meal of any kind.
For life's other needs, we provide referrals to community agencies and homeless outreach programs that can assist with housing, medical care, counseling, and a variety of other resources our guests need to thrive.
Resource Key
Housing
Helping Hand
Medical
Hunger
One Roof
Mission: One Roof’s mission is to equip and empower our community to prevent and end homelessness through advocacy, education, and coordination of services.
Birmingham AIDS Outreach
Mission: To enhance the quality of life for people living with HIV / AIDS, at-risk, affected individuals, and the LGBTQ community through outreach, age-appropriate prevention education, and supportive services.
First Light
Mission: First Light works with homeless women and their children to create hospitality in a safe and nurturing community, to encourage them to maintain dignity, to find hope, to seek opportunity, and to grow spiritually, thereby achieving their full potential.
Highlands United
Methodist Church
Mission: The Highlands United Methodist Church helps its homeless neighbors find a refuge from the streets with refreshments, mail and phone service, needed toiletries, and a compassionate, listening ear. Those without access to clean clothes can drop off their laundry. They also offer a fully staffed mobile medical unit from Alabama Regional Medical Services which provides free weekly medical care and screening.
Interfaith Hospitality House
Mission: YWCA Central Alabama operates one of Alabama’s only permanent facilities serving two-parent families experiencing homelessness in the state of Alabama. They are a housing facility that provides furnished two-bedroom suites to families in housing crises and up to three meals a day.
Salvation Army Birmingham
Mission: The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.
United Way of Central Alabama
Mission: To increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another and to improve their community.
Brother Bryan Mission
Mission: Brother Bryan Mission seeks to minister to the economically, emotionally, and spiritually impoverished men in the central Alabama area.
Firehouse Ministries
Mission: Firehouse Ministries provides homeless men, ages 18 and older, in the Birmingham Area a nurturing and caring environment offering supportive services that break the cycle of homelessness and empower individuals to achieve their highest potential.
Greater Birmingham Ministries
Mission: Greater Birmingham Ministries was created in response to urgent human and justice needs in the greater Birmingham area. GBM is a multi-faith, multi-racial organization that provides emergency services for people in need and engages the poor and the non-poor in systemic change efforts to build a strong, supportive, engaged community and pursue a more just society for all people.
Magic City Harvest
Mission: Magic City Harvest is a perishable food recovery program of greater Birmingham. They work to alleviate food insecurity, malnutrition and food waste through the free distribution of donated excess food to programs feeding those in need.
Jimmie Hale Mission
Mission: Jimmie Hale Mission transforms adults directly affected by homelessness, poverty-thinking, and/or addiction, into those who lead healthy, self-sufficient, and productive lives for the glory of God.
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama
Mission: We feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
Urban Ministry
Mission: We are called to love people, love West End and love the world. Each of our ministry programs reflect this belief. When being in relationship with others is the value that drives you, giving them your best becomes the ultimate goal. Programs include We Cafe, We Garden, You Serve, We Learn, We Care, We Work, and We Build.
