Night Shelters
The partial list will grow over time.. If you have anything to add to this page you can send us an email at [email protected]
The partial list will grow over time.. If you have anything to add to this page you can send us an email at [email protected]
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Wake Up
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Get Loud Review
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Denver Rescue Mission
(Lawrence Shelter) 1130 Park Avenue West |
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Lottery
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5:30am
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Deloris House
1402 Pearl Street |
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Data Needed
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6am?
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2015 Emergency Overflow Shelter Info
updates for 2016 coming soon
General assistance in finding a place
8am to 5pm Monday through Friday anyone can call Mile High United Way’s 2-1-1
number from any phone to get information about shelters (as well as food, clothing, and other needed resources) that they qualify for.
4pm to 12:30 am any night, anyone needing shelter can call 720-305-4640 to reach Search and Rescue Dispatch run by the Salvation Army’s Crossroads program. Within staff limits (only one worker does this per night) you will be picked up and transported to a shelter.
Outreach workers from the Denver Street Outreach Collaborative can help you get to a place to sleep. They work all around town between 7 am and 10 pm seven days a week. It’s also the job of any police officer to take you to a place indoors that will accept you during severe weather.
Youth and Young Adults
Urban Peak’s Overnight Shelter, located at 1630 S. Acoma Street, hosts up to 50 young people ages 15-20. To check on bed availability, call the 24-hour line 303-974-2908. If the shelter is full youth will be referred to other sheltering options. The shelter provides three meals a day and snacks, and offers recreational activities, counseling and referrals as needed. A medical clinic is open three times a week.
Unaccompanied women and transgender people over 18
Emergency shelter for 20 people at a rotating list of churches is provided every night year-round on a daily lottery selection basis through the Women’s Homeless Initiative of Capitol Hill United Ministries, or CHUM). To sign up for the lottery go to St Francis Center (2323 Curtis St), or call 303-297-1577, between 6 and 8:15 am. No ID is needed. The twenty lottery winners are announced by 9am. The others are placed on a numbered waiting list. At 5:30pm lottery winners who have not signed in will be replaced by people on the wait list. Guests generally sleep on cots, and supper and breakfast bags are provided. Guests are transported to and from the shelter, leaving St Francis around 6pm and returning around 7am the next morning.
Another option is the Women’s Emergency Shelter, currently located at 1371 Elati. (The location and procedure will change sometime in December.) You can sign up each Monday and Thursday by going to one of three locations--The Gathering Place (15th and High St) from 8:30-9:30am, St Francis Center (2323 Curtis St) from 7-8:30am, or Denver Human Services (1200 Federal) from 9am-4pm. About 60 are accommodated on mats. For the mobility impaired, cots are provided. If you are assigned a space, you get to keep it until the next registration day. However, to retain your space you must arrive at the shelter by 6:30pm each night.You don’t need to show any ID to get in, nor will you be breathalyzed. (Note--During severe weather conditions, additional shelter spaces for women will be provided as needed and will be accessed through St Francis.)
Another shelter option is the Emergency Overflow Program of The Delores Project, which assigns beds for up to a week. (The west Denver address is kept confidential.) You can go to The Gathering Place (1535 High Street) between 8:30 and 9:30am any Monday to take part in a lottery process which assigns 10 of the Delores Project's emergency beds. You can also call the Delores Project at 303-534-5411 any time to ask if a bed is available, but the best time to call is on Monday at 11:30am. If you get a bed, you can keep it until the following Monday, when you must call again. The house is closed to guests between 8am and 5pm Monday through Friday, but guests may stay there during the day on weekends.
Motel Vouchers If you didn’t get into any of the above options, you can go to the Samaritan House, 2301 Lawrence St., seven days a week, from 5-8:30pm. A Denver County Human Services representative will help you locate a place to spend the night. This may be a motel voucher or a spot which may have opened up in a shelter. (Motel vouchers are issued when temperatures are below 40 degrees and no other shelter options are available.) Women without a valid ID may still be referred to the VOA Family Motel if there is a vacancy, but you must present ID to receive a voucher for other motels with whom the county has contracts. (However in extreme weather every effort will be made to procure shelter to individuals arriving regardless of possessing identification.) Women in Denver County are allotted 12 nights of motel vouchering in a year. Women who do not reside in Denver County will be afforded only one (1) night voucher and be referred to appropriate resources in their county of origin. Women must not be on the “do not re-voucher” registry, which reflects serious past abuses of the voucher program.
Unaccompanied men over 18
The Denver Rescue Mission’s Lawrence Street Shelter (1130 Park Avenue West, will provide emergency shelter each night and will also stage men seeking shelter at the emergency overflow facility. (Additional spaces will be added during severe weather conditions as needed.) Assignment to these spots is by daily lottery selection. To be included in the lottery you must sign up by 5:00 pm, either by calling 303-294-0157 or by going to the Lawrence Street location. After 5:00 pm lottery winners are selected by computer and a list is printed. Individuals designated for the Emergency Shelter will be transported from the Lawrence Street Shelter between 7:30-9:00 pm, after they have eaten dinner. Residents will then be transported back to the Lawrence Street Shelter the following morning in time for breakfast. Walk-ups will be accepted at the Lawrence Street Shelter only after the lottery sign-up closes, as space is available, up until 10 pm nightly.
The Samaritan House (2301 Lawrence Street) can take up to 94 men on mats in its overflow shelter program. To try for a mat, go there at 8 pm any night. No ID is needed, but you will be breathalized. There are no showers or meals (it’s just a place to sleep), and you must be out by 5:30 am.
The Salvation Army’s Crossroads Shelter (1901 29th Street) conducts a lottery on site at 4:30 pm on Sundays and Wednesdays. Those selected by lottery have a mat until the next lottery. Crossroads normally shelters 152 men on mats, but with the cold weather that number may increase to 300. Guests are not breathalyzed but they do need ID to comply with HMIS reporting and will need a TB card. Working homeless individuals can obtain a bed for a modest reservation fee.
Families
The Family Services Program (2301 Lawrence), run by the Samaritan House, has a family floor with 21 rooms. Families admitted into the program can stay up to four months. Admission is through a lottery which is held each day that one or more rooms become available. Families should call 303-294-0241 by 7:30 am to find out if a lottery will be held that day. If so, the family must be at Samaritan House by 10am to have their name included.
Family Promise of Great Denver shelters 8-10 families at a time in host congregations (churches) at night, while in the daytime the families go to the program’s day center where they receive support in pursuing their housing, employment and other goals. Each participating congregation serves as host for one week, beginning on a Sunday, and at the end of the week the families rotate to the next host. To be eligible you must have at least one child under age 18 living with you full time. To see if there’s an opening, call Family Promise at 303-675-0713.
The Comitis Crisis Center (2178 Victor Street, Aurora) has an emergency overnight shelter with about 40 beds for families with a youth under 18. Families should go to the center at 6:30pm. A lottery will be held if there aren’t enough beds for all. IDs aren’t required the first night but you will be asked to obtain one for future stays. For questions, call 303-341-9160.
The Action Center (8755 West 14th Avenue, Lakewood) has a shelter program with 22 beds for couples, families and single adults. Guests may stay in the program for up to 45 days while working with case managers to develop and accomplish housing and other goals. To find out if there are openings at the shelter, call The Action Center at 303.237.7704.
The Family Motel Voucher Program is funded and run by the Denver Department of Human Services funds. Motel vouchers are issued from the following locations:
*Denver Human Services, 1200 Federal Blvd., General Assistance, Monday-Friday, 8:30am–3pm
*Samaritan House, 2301 Lawrence St., 7 days a week, 5-8:30pm
*Denver Sheriff, 490 W. Colfax, Monday-Friday after 9pm. Saturday-Sunday, 8pm or later (must be accompanied by an outreach worker or a Denver police officer).
Families originating from outside of Denver County will be issued a maximum single (1) night of motel assistance and then referred to their county of origin for shelter services. Heads of household must present identification to obtain a voucher at contract motels. (ID is not needed to access the VOA Family Motel.) Those seeking a voucher must not be on the “do not re-voucher” registry, which reflects serious past abuses of the voucher program.
8am to 5pm Monday through Friday anyone can call Mile High United Way’s 2-1-1
number from any phone to get information about shelters (as well as food, clothing, and other needed resources) that they qualify for.
4pm to 12:30 am any night, anyone needing shelter can call 720-305-4640 to reach Search and Rescue Dispatch run by the Salvation Army’s Crossroads program. Within staff limits (only one worker does this per night) you will be picked up and transported to a shelter.
Outreach workers from the Denver Street Outreach Collaborative can help you get to a place to sleep. They work all around town between 7 am and 10 pm seven days a week. It’s also the job of any police officer to take you to a place indoors that will accept you during severe weather.
Youth and Young Adults
Urban Peak’s Overnight Shelter, located at 1630 S. Acoma Street, hosts up to 50 young people ages 15-20. To check on bed availability, call the 24-hour line 303-974-2908. If the shelter is full youth will be referred to other sheltering options. The shelter provides three meals a day and snacks, and offers recreational activities, counseling and referrals as needed. A medical clinic is open three times a week.
Unaccompanied women and transgender people over 18
Emergency shelter for 20 people at a rotating list of churches is provided every night year-round on a daily lottery selection basis through the Women’s Homeless Initiative of Capitol Hill United Ministries, or CHUM). To sign up for the lottery go to St Francis Center (2323 Curtis St), or call 303-297-1577, between 6 and 8:15 am. No ID is needed. The twenty lottery winners are announced by 9am. The others are placed on a numbered waiting list. At 5:30pm lottery winners who have not signed in will be replaced by people on the wait list. Guests generally sleep on cots, and supper and breakfast bags are provided. Guests are transported to and from the shelter, leaving St Francis around 6pm and returning around 7am the next morning.
Another option is the Women’s Emergency Shelter, currently located at 1371 Elati. (The location and procedure will change sometime in December.) You can sign up each Monday and Thursday by going to one of three locations--The Gathering Place (15th and High St) from 8:30-9:30am, St Francis Center (2323 Curtis St) from 7-8:30am, or Denver Human Services (1200 Federal) from 9am-4pm. About 60 are accommodated on mats. For the mobility impaired, cots are provided. If you are assigned a space, you get to keep it until the next registration day. However, to retain your space you must arrive at the shelter by 6:30pm each night.You don’t need to show any ID to get in, nor will you be breathalyzed. (Note--During severe weather conditions, additional shelter spaces for women will be provided as needed and will be accessed through St Francis.)
Another shelter option is the Emergency Overflow Program of The Delores Project, which assigns beds for up to a week. (The west Denver address is kept confidential.) You can go to The Gathering Place (1535 High Street) between 8:30 and 9:30am any Monday to take part in a lottery process which assigns 10 of the Delores Project's emergency beds. You can also call the Delores Project at 303-534-5411 any time to ask if a bed is available, but the best time to call is on Monday at 11:30am. If you get a bed, you can keep it until the following Monday, when you must call again. The house is closed to guests between 8am and 5pm Monday through Friday, but guests may stay there during the day on weekends.
Motel Vouchers If you didn’t get into any of the above options, you can go to the Samaritan House, 2301 Lawrence St., seven days a week, from 5-8:30pm. A Denver County Human Services representative will help you locate a place to spend the night. This may be a motel voucher or a spot which may have opened up in a shelter. (Motel vouchers are issued when temperatures are below 40 degrees and no other shelter options are available.) Women without a valid ID may still be referred to the VOA Family Motel if there is a vacancy, but you must present ID to receive a voucher for other motels with whom the county has contracts. (However in extreme weather every effort will be made to procure shelter to individuals arriving regardless of possessing identification.) Women in Denver County are allotted 12 nights of motel vouchering in a year. Women who do not reside in Denver County will be afforded only one (1) night voucher and be referred to appropriate resources in their county of origin. Women must not be on the “do not re-voucher” registry, which reflects serious past abuses of the voucher program.
Unaccompanied men over 18
The Denver Rescue Mission’s Lawrence Street Shelter (1130 Park Avenue West, will provide emergency shelter each night and will also stage men seeking shelter at the emergency overflow facility. (Additional spaces will be added during severe weather conditions as needed.) Assignment to these spots is by daily lottery selection. To be included in the lottery you must sign up by 5:00 pm, either by calling 303-294-0157 or by going to the Lawrence Street location. After 5:00 pm lottery winners are selected by computer and a list is printed. Individuals designated for the Emergency Shelter will be transported from the Lawrence Street Shelter between 7:30-9:00 pm, after they have eaten dinner. Residents will then be transported back to the Lawrence Street Shelter the following morning in time for breakfast. Walk-ups will be accepted at the Lawrence Street Shelter only after the lottery sign-up closes, as space is available, up until 10 pm nightly.
The Samaritan House (2301 Lawrence Street) can take up to 94 men on mats in its overflow shelter program. To try for a mat, go there at 8 pm any night. No ID is needed, but you will be breathalized. There are no showers or meals (it’s just a place to sleep), and you must be out by 5:30 am.
The Salvation Army’s Crossroads Shelter (1901 29th Street) conducts a lottery on site at 4:30 pm on Sundays and Wednesdays. Those selected by lottery have a mat until the next lottery. Crossroads normally shelters 152 men on mats, but with the cold weather that number may increase to 300. Guests are not breathalyzed but they do need ID to comply with HMIS reporting and will need a TB card. Working homeless individuals can obtain a bed for a modest reservation fee.
Families
The Family Services Program (2301 Lawrence), run by the Samaritan House, has a family floor with 21 rooms. Families admitted into the program can stay up to four months. Admission is through a lottery which is held each day that one or more rooms become available. Families should call 303-294-0241 by 7:30 am to find out if a lottery will be held that day. If so, the family must be at Samaritan House by 10am to have their name included.
Family Promise of Great Denver shelters 8-10 families at a time in host congregations (churches) at night, while in the daytime the families go to the program’s day center where they receive support in pursuing their housing, employment and other goals. Each participating congregation serves as host for one week, beginning on a Sunday, and at the end of the week the families rotate to the next host. To be eligible you must have at least one child under age 18 living with you full time. To see if there’s an opening, call Family Promise at 303-675-0713.
The Comitis Crisis Center (2178 Victor Street, Aurora) has an emergency overnight shelter with about 40 beds for families with a youth under 18. Families should go to the center at 6:30pm. A lottery will be held if there aren’t enough beds for all. IDs aren’t required the first night but you will be asked to obtain one for future stays. For questions, call 303-341-9160.
The Action Center (8755 West 14th Avenue, Lakewood) has a shelter program with 22 beds for couples, families and single adults. Guests may stay in the program for up to 45 days while working with case managers to develop and accomplish housing and other goals. To find out if there are openings at the shelter, call The Action Center at 303.237.7704.
The Family Motel Voucher Program is funded and run by the Denver Department of Human Services funds. Motel vouchers are issued from the following locations:
*Denver Human Services, 1200 Federal Blvd., General Assistance, Monday-Friday, 8:30am–3pm
*Samaritan House, 2301 Lawrence St., 7 days a week, 5-8:30pm
*Denver Sheriff, 490 W. Colfax, Monday-Friday after 9pm. Saturday-Sunday, 8pm or later (must be accompanied by an outreach worker or a Denver police officer).
Families originating from outside of Denver County will be issued a maximum single (1) night of motel assistance and then referred to their county of origin for shelter services. Heads of household must present identification to obtain a voucher at contract motels. (ID is not needed to access the VOA Family Motel.) Those seeking a voucher must not be on the “do not re-voucher” registry, which reflects serious past abuses of the voucher program.
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