Grassroots Launches Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week

Most of us never worry about where our next meal is coming from nor where we will spend the night. Some of our neighbors, however, live with daily anxiety about providing for their families.

Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center feeds and shelters those who have fallen through the safety net and helps them get on their feet again. During national Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week, Nov. 15-22, Grassroots is asking for financial donations to buy meals – including Thanksgiving dinner – for people in the shelter programs. You can buy a dinner for $6 for regular meals and $10 for a Thanksgiving meal. Donate here.

Grassroots provides 24-hour crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and support to individuals and families with a mental health, substance use or homelessness crisis.

During the last year, Grassroots served 340 people in its shelter programs and 921 individuals at the Grassroots Day Resource Center, handled 33,474 calls to its Hotline, and made 2,825 face-to-face contacts. The Mobile Crisis Team made 721 community responses, and 143 clients were enrolled in the Substance Use Treatment program.

Grassroots is located on Freetown Road in Columbia. For information, call 410-531-6006, or visit www.grassrootscrisis.org