Buy a Thanksgiving Meal for a Family in the Grassroots Shelter

Most of us never worry about where our next meal is coming from nor where we will spend the night. Some of our neighbors, however, live with daily anxiety about providing for their families.

Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center feeds and shelters those who have fallen through the safety net and helps them get on their feet again. During national Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week, Nov. 13-21, Grassroots is asking for financial donations and gift cards to buy meals – including Thanksgiving dinner – and other items for people in the shelter programs. You can buy a dinner for $6 for regular meals and $10 for a Thanksgiving meal. Donate here.

Grassroots provides 24-hour crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and support to individuals and families with a mental health, substance use or homelessness crisis.

During the last year, Grassroots served 328 people in its shelter programs and 483 individuals at the Grassroots Day Resource Center, handled 39,548 calls to its Hotline, and made 2,344 face-to-face contacts. The Mobile Crisis Team made 1,023 community responses, and 177 clients were enrolled in the Substance Use Treatment program.

Grassroots is located on Freetown Road in Columbia. For information, call 410-531-6006, or visit www.grassrootscrisis.org