COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Research shows when individuals or families struggle to meet their basic needs, including access to food, safe housing, heat when it’s cold, or transportation, health problems are often a result. At Primary Care Partners, we recognize the importance of these resources and have gathered a comprehensive list to assist you.
If you do not find the community resources you are looking for, please contact your primary care provider’s office and ask to speak to one of our Care Coordinators who will work with you in an effort to connect you with community resources. You may also access resources through Western Colorado 2-1-1 by dialing 211 on your phone.
The following list is provided for your convenience only. Primary Care Partners has not inquired about the references nor are we recommending any of the following individuals, groups, or organizations.
Colorado.gov provides a family resource page with links for assistance for children, housing, health, and senior services.
Colorado Shines
(877) 338-2273
Colorado Shines provides resources for families, programs, and professionals. Resources for families include food and nutrition, health care, low-income support, and financial assistance for early care learning programs.
Hilltop Family Resource Center
(970) 243-0190
This local organization offers a variety of services and support and holistically works with families through collaborations and community partnerships to equip families with all the resources they need to thrive.
Hope of the Grand Valley
(970) 778-4880
Hope of the Grand Valley provides guidance to working families so they can take advantage of the many services and programs available to help them when they just need a hand up, not a handout.
The Women’s Foundation of Colorado
(303) 285-2960
The Women’s Foundation of Colorado provides statewide resources for housing and rent assistance, food and hunger assistance, employment and education services, transportation information and services, childcare and support for parents, healthcare and medical assistance, intervention, crisis and support services, victim assistance and support, free/reduced legal services and advocacy, and women/gender empowerment.
Community Food Bank provides a short-term supply of nutritious food and access to available hunger relief resources to anyone in Mesa County experiencing need.
Hunger Free Colorado
Hunger Free Colorado provides a one-stop-shop for statewide food resources including community resources, food and nutrition programs, and other public benefits for all ages.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Monthly benefits to purchase food at grocery stores and other participating business. Double the value of your SNAP at the downtown Farmers Market.
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)
(970) 644- 5655 or (970) 464-1138
Provides a monthly food box for low-income individuals and families.
Apply for services online at colorado.gov/PEAK.
Women, Infants, And Children (WIC)
Free food, breast pumps, and nutrition consults for pregnant and breastfeeding women. Including infants and children, up to age five. On Thursdays, you can meet with a WIC representative, by visiting Western Colorado Pediatrics.
Free Community Meals
Breakfast in the Park
Offered by Connection Church
1st and 2nd Sunday of each month at 8:45 a.m.
Whitman Park at South 4th Street and Ute Ave., Grand Junction, CO 81501
Kids Aid Backpack Program
(970) 712-2847
In collaboration with Mesa County School District 51, the Backpack Program discretely sends bags of food donations home with children who otherwise would go hungry over the weekend.
Lunch Lizard
D51 Schools free summer meals program for children 18 years and younger offered Monday through Friday. Please visit website for updated route schedule and menu.
Meals on Wheels
(970) 243-9844
Meal delivery for seniors 60+
Soup Kitchen
Offered by Grand Valley Catholic Outreach
Monday through Friday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
245 South 1st. Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Food Pantries
Adventist Community Service
(970) 242-2277
Hours: Tuesdays from 9 a.m.-11:45 a.m. & 1 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
2554 Patterson Road, Grand Junction, CO 81505
Canyon West Church Food Bank
(970) 858-9995
Hours: 2nd Saturday of the month, 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
456 Kokopelli Drive, Fruita, CO 81521
Catholic Outreach
(970) 241-3658
Hours: Monday – Friday, 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
245 South 1st Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Church of the Nazarene-TEFAP
(970) 985-4360
Hours: Every other Thursday, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m.
3595 Front Street, Palisade, CO 81526
Clifton Assembly of God
(970) 434-6907
Hours: Monday and Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
258 5th Street, Clifton, CO 81520
Community Food Bank
(970) 640-0336
Hours Vary
476 28 ½ Road, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Family Room Fellowship
(970) 242-1795
502 West Colorado Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Father Woody’s Haven of Hope
Hours: Monday – Friday, 7 a.m.-1 p.m.
615 I-70 Business Loop, Clifton, Colorado 81520
Jubilee Family Church
(970) 241-3210
Hours: 2nd and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 8:30 a.m.
483 30 Road, Grand Junction, CO 81504
Salvation Army Social Services
(970) 242-7513
1235 North 4th Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Hours: Tuesday 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Emergency food boxes: Monday, Wednesday-Friday from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-3 p.m.
Trinity Baptist Church
(970) 242-2355
Hours: Friday from 10 a.m. -1 p.m.
2748 B ½ Road, Grand Junction, CO 81503
Western Slope FBR Mobile Pantry
(970) 464-1138
Hours: 2nd and 4th Tuesday starting at 3:30 p.m.
(303) 866-5700
The Colorado Low-income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP) is a federally-funded program that helps eligible, hard-working Colorado families, seniors, and individuals pay a portion of their winter home heating costs. Our goal is to help bring warmth, comfort, and safety to your home and family by assisting with heating costs.
(970) 256-9424
2853 North Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Temporary night shelter for families, single men, and women.
Grand Junction Rescue Mission
(970) 243-4230
550 South Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Night shelter for men.
Latimer House
(970) 241-0324
Emergency Safe House
Safe Shelter, food, and clothing are available for women, men, and their children. The address is confidential as are the names of residents who occupy the safe house.
The House
(970) 234-7004
362 Main Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Provides homeless youth, 13 to 20 years of age, on the Western Slope with safety through short-term housing programs, warmth, and hope for a new day.
The House is a 10-bed, emergency shelter for homeless youth ages 13-20, which provides intensive case management and support. About 70 youth come through The House each year. The program is staffed 24/7. Think of it as a train station. This is where youth come in from the cold for short stays. From the station, they take trips to more permanent destinations: back home, to DHS programs, to Job Corp, to college, or to longer-term Karis programs.
Laurel House Apartments is a large apartment building that houses some of our community’s most vulnerable youth. The program features 34 one-bedroom apartments with a lot of beautiful common space. Youth can stay in their apartments for as long as needed. Laurel House is the epitome of a home. It is a place designed to house and care for the neediest youth in our community for a very long time.
Zoe House is a 14-bed, transitional housing program that provides housing and voluntary services to youth ages 18-24 and their dependents made homeless by intimate-partner violence. Zoe House is the Bat Cave of our programs—a place youth hide away to be safe and receive assistance as they prepare to re-enter a world that has done them harm.
The Host Home Program provides housing, case management, and support to homeless youth ages 16-22 in local homes. It’s like an uncle or aunt’s house, a place where you stay for a year or two to get back on your feet.
The host family receives services and a stipend from Karis. If you have a spare room in your home, you can provide youth experiencing homelessness with the safety and security they need to reach their full potential. You can give them a HOME.
Bonnie’s House is a voucher-based, 5-bed permanent supportive housing program for homeless youth ages 18-24 and offers mental health services and support from a Rocky Mountain Health Care Coordinator as well as Karis services. Youth pay 30% of their income towards rent.
The Transitional Living Program (TLP) provides housing (10 beds), case management, and support to homeless youth ages 16-22 for up to two years. Think of it as an uncle or aunt’s house. It’s a place where you stay for a year or two to get back on your feet. The program is centered at two four-bedroom homes: Benni’s House and Mathew’s House. Youth pay 30% of their income monthly and have their income returned at program completion so they can transition to self-sufficiency. Last year, TLP served 16 youth.
The Street Outreach Program (SOP) is the arm of agency in the community and on the street. We think of it as a friendly octopus. The heart of the street outreach program is the drop-in center, and the tentacles are its programs that reach throughout the community. The program is centered at our drop-in center at 4th and Main and employs 2-4 outreach workers who visit homeless youth in schools, on the street, in parks, and under bridges. This program serves youth ages 13-24 and last year served 245 youth (this includes youth who stayed in Karis housing programs).
The Asset House is a two-year transitional housing program for adults ages 18 and older. Residents at Asset House live in single rooms and shared bathrooms and a kitchen. We work to get residents connected with resources and support in the community. The monthly rent includes all utilities.
Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Day Center
(970) 263-9445
302 Pitkin Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501
The Day Center offers the amenities of home – a warm shower, laundry, telephone, mail, storage– to area people who are homeless, ages 18 and older. Guests receive job search support and directions to local resources. Monday through Fridays from 7 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Salvation Army Day Center
(970) 242-7513
1235 North 4th Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Day Shelter and lunch offered Mondays through Saturdays 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sundays 12 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
The Joseph Center
Main Office: (970) 245-4672
Day Shelter: (970) 314-9428
2511 Belford Avenue #B, Grand Junction, CO 81501
The Joseph Center was created to support families in the intersection of homelessness and parenting. Our mission is to provide hope, establish stability, encourage resourcefulness, and confer a sense of belonging to the greater community. Programs include a day shelter.
Housing Programs
Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA)
CHFA invests in affordable housing and community development. They offer financial resources to strengthen homeownership, affordable rental housing, and businesses.
Grand Valley Catholic Outreach
(970) 241-3658
T-House Supportive Housing are shelters for up to two families, each living in their own apartment, for up to four months. Residents pay weekly affordable rent. At least one parent must be employed.
Transitional Supportive Housing offers individuals and families the opportunity to end homelessness through cooperative living, counseling, and training.
Permanent Supportive Housing provides homes to those with mental, or physical impairments who have been chronically homeless.
Rapid Re-Housing offers an individual or family who has been homeless, or will become homeless, an opportunity to lease housing with one or more months’ worth of financial support.
Grand Junction Housing Authority
(970) 245-0388
Offers resources for housing programs, affordable rentals, subsidized housing, and information regarding HUD vouchers and other low-income housing locations.
Housing Resources of Western Colorado (HRWC)
(970) 241-2871
HRWC’s vision is to empower independence, believing that home stability will build stable communities. HRWC provides housing and housing services that create stable, sustainable, Western Colorado homes. HWWC offers resources for affordable rentals, community building & engagement, housing counseling and education programs, homebuyer education, housing rehabilitation, self-help, and weatherization.
Habitat For Humanity
(970) 255-9850
Habitat for Humanity believes that everyone should have a safe, affordable place to call home. Our Vision is to partner with individuals and families from application, through construction, to homeownership.
Low Income Housing
This hyperlink provides a list of local HUD, public housing, low-income housing, and nonprofit apartments in the area.
Wheelchair accessible van
(970) 210-7083
Dash
(970) 245-9697
Grand Valley Transit (GVT)
Ask about college and veteran discounts
(970) 256-7433
K2 Taxi
(970) 242-4652
Mercy Medical Transportation
Wheelchair accessible van
(970) 812-5127
Millennium Medical
Wheelchair accessible van
(970) 270-8494
Serving Our Seniors
(970) 248-2746
Sunshine Taxi
(970) 777-7777
