Community Shelter Services Inc

Community Shelter Services Inc We appreciate all the support, both financial and time, from across our community.Click to read more. CSS provides essential emergency shelter and promotes self-sufficiency in our clientele.Click to read more. CSS assists families to find permanent housing and a fresh start on life while keeping them together.Click to read more. <img decoding="async" width="970" height="250" src="https://communityshelter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WEBSITE-BANNER-.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-image-5818 lazyload" alt="" srcset="https://communityshelter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WEBSITE-BANNER-.png 970w, https://communityshelter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WEBSITE-BANNER--300x77.png 300w, https://communityshelter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WEBSITE-BANNER--768x198.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="600" src="https://communityshelter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Made-possible-by.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-image-5611 lazyload" alt="" srcset="https://communityshelter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Made-possible-by.png 1024w, https://communityshelter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Made-possible-by-300x176.png 300w, https://communityshelter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Made-possible-by-768x450.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> OUR PROGRAMSNeed EMERGENCY SHELTER? Call: 814-SHELTER (814-743-5837)Emergency Shelter Single-Home Occupancy Homeward BoundPermanent Housing Lighting the Candle Veterans OUR MISSIONCommunity Shelter Services rebuilds lives by providing refuge and pathways to stability for adults experiencing homelessness and poverty.Community Shelter Services is a welcoming and inclusive community. Every day of the year, we enable individuals to meet their basic needs for food, clothing and shelter. We transform lives using a holistic approach to understanding and addressing behavioral health, housing and employment needs. We commit ourselves to helping those we serve achieve renewed lives of dignity and self-determination.With your help, during the past 12 monthsCommunity Shelter Services was able to provide:694Residents served253,310Safe nights of sleep provided63Families housed171Children shelteredFor Community Shelter Services, keeping clients safe, warm, housed, and fed each night while mitigating the spread of COVID has been especially challenging. CSS remained steadfast in our commitment to keeping those in our care and the community at large healthy.Efforts to provide additional safe and clean space for those sheltering from cold temperatures and harsh winter weather are of top concern. To accomplish this, our staff has a plan in action:Donations of warm winter clothing were coordinated as early as August.Our Emergency Shelter will continue to provide 4 meals a day and keep water, coffee, tea, and hot chocolate on hand at all times for those coming in from the cold. When our typical capacity is reached this winter, overflow cots will be set up to prepare for additional intake. We continue to observe heightened cleanliness procedures to discourage the spread of infectious diseasesHelp us continue to serve those who need our help. Please donate today. Thank You. Donate Today LATEST NEWS CSS Unveils First Tiny Home at Ribbon Cutting April 19, 2023 No Comments The first of a small village of tiny homes has welcomed a local family in need of temporary emergency shelter on Community Shelter Services property. Read More » Tiny Home Welcomes First Erie Family in Need April 13, 2023 No Comments The first of a small village of tiny homes is ready to welcome a local family in need of emergency shelter on Community Shelter Services Read More » Local Children Receive Valentine Boxes Made by Kiwanis Club and CSS Staff February 1, 2023 No Comments Community Shelter Services and Kiwanis Club of Erie teamed up on Tuesday, January 31 for a service project to make Valentine’s Day boxes for the Read More »