Hotline

THE SHELTER HOTLINE: 1-800-774-3583 (1-800-7SHELTER)

The shelter hotline provides pre-recorded information in English and Spanish on shelter availability for single men, single women, women with children, families, and youth.

Bay Area Homeless Alliance provides additional referral information on-line at: www.baha.org

Community Voicemail Service... Imagine searching for a job or a place to live without a telephone when the first question you hear is "How can I reach you?" This is a reminder to all health and human service providers that Community Technology Alliance's (a nonprofit agency serving Santa Clara County) Community VoiceMail bridges the digital divide by providing homeless and at-risk clients access to 24 hour VoiceMail that is much like a home answering machine: personalized, dignified and easy to use.

As one client, a formerly homeless disabled mother of three, told us, "I believe having our own private VoiceMail box helped us immensely because landlords heard my voice, not some motel operator or our friends' answering machine." In eight years of operation, several thousand clients have used Community VoiceMail as an empowering tool towards self-sufficiency. Last year, over 60% of all users found housing and/or employment, usually within 90 days.

For more information about Community Voicemail please call 408-437-9167.

Homeless Services : Hotline