ACCESS provides food, warmth, shelter, and other essential services to Jackson County’s low-income children, families, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities. As the Community Action Agency of Jackson County, Oregon, ACCESS has been helping residents break the cycle of poverty since 1976. Last year, 52,497 people received assistance from ACCESS’s broad continuum of services, including obtaining safe, affordable housing, rental assistance, utility assistance, weatherization, free loaned durable medical equipment and healthy food.
Adults with severe and persistent mental illness in Southern Oregon deserve every opportunity to build self-confidence and self-esteem, reintegrate into their community, become independent and productive, and live happy, healthy lives. At Compass House, members have purposeful opportunities through the work ordered day to rebuild their self-respect, dignity, and abilities through education, productive work, and meaningful relationships. We do this by helping Members complete educational goals, develop necessary work skills in order to return to productive employment in the community, and where needed, help members access needed resources.
Our mission is to empower homeless youth to thrive independently through supports that stabilize and engage in all aspects of life!
Every weekday evening, we invite the community in to our restaurant-style dining hall to share in a delicious meal prepared in our full-service kitchen. It’s a restaurant quality meal and experience at no cost to our diners. At The Main ingredient, each meal is actually planned, prepared, and served by a team made up of our program participants and volunteers, providing an excellent opportunity for practicing relationships and hospitality together in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.
Rogue Foods Unites has developed a barrier-free, no-cost mobile farmers market program that provides fresh, regional, organic produce, organic eggs and natural meats on a regular schedule throughout Southern Oregon. This high quality produce is locally sourced and helps support small family farms in our region. The mobile market program is intended to reach people who generally don’t have ready access to fresh, organic food, and includes a goal to build community in the process.
Sacred Heart School has a Food Bank that is available to the public. The Middle School helps out with this service as well as a few volunteer parents. It is located in the alley behind the SHCS gym. For the last several years, all the classes at Sacred Heart School have donated food for the Food Bank during the school year.
Fresh produce and food staples are available to members of the community every Thursday from 1 - 2:30 pm (excluding Thanksgiving). Blue bags for non-perishable food and other items are available in the narthex. They are gathered and blessed on the fourth Sunday of every month.
The Rogue Valley Council of St. Vincent de Paul is dedicated to providing compassionate support to the poor, regardless of race, creed, sex, sexual orientation or ethnic origin. Each Council is locally organized, funded and staffed. Our Council has no financial obligation to any church and no effort is made to preach, convert or proselytize.
Our mission as a church: "to encourage and equip one another in love to know jesus and make him known."
Our mission is to reduce food waste and eliminate food insecurity in Jackson county.
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.