Project Home provides 24/7 support for families facing homelessness.
Overnight Shelter
Annually, Project Home provides more than 10,300 shelter beds in church social halls, synagogue classrooms, and school cafeterias for families experiencing homelessness.
Each month, two area faith communities host 20 emergency shelter beds each. Other faith communities join with them, providing volunteers to support the shelter sites.
Day Center
In fall 2019, Interfaith Action opened the Project Home Day Center to serve families who are guests in Project Home overnight shelters. The center, located in First Baptist Church in downtown Saint Paul, provides meals, lockers, showers, educational programming and rapid exit case workers to help families find stable housing. Learn more about our day center, and read more about our rapid exit support.
Get Involved
There are many ways to support Project Home: Serve a meal, donate items, serve as an evening or overnight shelter host, volunteer to move families on move day, or get your faith community involved. See the Overnight Shelter and Day Center pages for more details.
Volunteer Recruiting & Training Resources
Click here for recruiting and training resources for faith communities.
Contact
If you are seeking emergency shelter, please dial 2-1-1- (or 651-291-0211).
To volunteer, contact:
Sara Liegl
Director
651-789-3848
sliegl@interfaithaction.org
Project Home in the News
Pioneer Press: Partnership secures contract with Ramsey County to run homeless day shelter in downtown St. Paul
Star Tribune: St. Paul day shelter for homeless families gets county funds
“Volunteering at Project Home is our chance to be hospitable in the same way my parents were. It’s really important that my kids see it as hospitality. Hospitality is really all about forgetting oneself and attending to the needs of the other.”
—Peter Distelzweig, Church of Saint Mark volunteer
Our Impact
10,431
shelter-bed nights at 23 faith community host sites annually
33
families moved into permanent housing last year through support from our case workers
24,370
hours provided at shelters during 3,421 volunteer shifts