Community Resources
Homeless and Basic Needs Resources in Licking County
Shelters
- New Beginnings Shelters for Domestic Violence: 740-349-8719
- Women, with or without children, who are victims of domestic violence
- Salvation Army: 740-345-8120
- 50-bed emergency shelter with Men’s, Women’s, and Family wings
- St. Vincent Haven: 740-670-0822
- Emergency shelter for men only
Housing and Community Resources
- American Red Cross: 740-349-9442
- Disaster relief, provides motel vouchers, first month’s rent
- LEADS Community Action: 740-349-8606
- Emergency housing funds, emergency home repair, rent and utility assistance
- Licking County Coalition for Housing: 740-345-1970
- Provides a wide variety of housing services to homeless and low-income members of Licking County. LCCH now operates over 40 units of Transitional Housing for homeless families and individuals
- Licking County Coalition of Care: 740-670-9700
- The Licking County Coalition of Care serves individuals and families living with the effects of poverty and homelessness.
- Licking County Job and Family Services: 740-670-8999
- Offers help with Cash Assistance (OWF), child care, child support, food assistance, health care (Medicaid)
- Licking Metropolitan Housing Authority: 740-349-8069
- Affordable housing, Section 8
- Navigate Resources:
- A list of food, utilities, and housing resources in the county.
- Pathways of Central Ohio: 740-345-6166
- Information and referral to social service, emergency and other housing needs
- Salvation Army: 740-345-8120
- Rent and utility assistance, personal care kits, case management
- Society of St. Vincent DePaul: 740-349-8425
- Rent and utility assistance
- The Main Place: 740-345-6246
- A peer run mental health and wellness center that promotes health and wellness in a safe, secure, nurturing environment.
Basic Needs
- Food Pantry Network: 740-273-0006
- Newark and Licking County food pantries
- Goodwill: 740-364-0804
- Cheaper options for furniture and clothes
- St Vincent De Paul Thrift Store: 740-349-8425/740-340-1600
- Cheaper options for furniture and clothes(the one on 200 E Main Street also has a soup kitchen sometimes)