Auburn Interfaith Food Closet offers a Home Delivery Program that provides participants with enough food each month to make 12 meals for everyone in the household.

The home delivery service is not on-demand, but occurs monthly on a pre-established schedule. Each guest's order is customized monthly, to best serve their needs.

To register for this program, people can call AIFC at 530-885-1921 during opening hours.

Web pages

• Auburn Interfaith Food Closet - https://auburnfoodcloset.org
• Home Delivery Program PDF - https://auburnfoodcloset.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Home-delivery.pdf

The Auburn Seventh-day Adventist Church provides free food, clothing, and supportive services to people in need in the Auburn area.

Services include:

• Clothing closet, food pantry, hygiene kits, and showers
• Community garden, fruit orchard, and fresh produce during harvest season
• Computer resource center and children’s play area
• Referrals to other local organizations and churches
• Medical, dental, vision, mental health, and chiropractic services through the Auburn Renewal Center (located on church grounds)

Service schedule:

• Monday (Unsheltered individuals): Clothing, shoes, bedding, hygiene kits, hot showers, toiletries, sack and hot lunches
• Tuesday (Sheltered individuals & families): Clothing, diapers, baby wipes, kitchen items, linens, groceries (including USDA food and produce from the garden/orchard), and access to a computer for family or job connection needs

Web pages

• Home - https://www.aubsda.org/
• Community Services - https://www.aubsda.org/communityserv…

WWJD? (What Would Jesus Do?) Inc. is a nonprofit, non-denominational organization in Western Placer County serving people who are homeless, transitionally homeless, and working poor. From a mobile van in each community at conveniently located sites, they serve their clients a warm breakfast and provide a bag full of food for their dinner. WWJD? can also provide clothing, blankets, tarps, sleeping bags, toiletries, laundry soap, pet food, and other sundries.

WWJD? is an all-volunteer agency providing a mobile food service in the Roseville, Auburn, & Colfax areas of Western Placer County, along with medical care and transportation, referral services for adults and children who are homeless.

See service times and locations on the WWJD? website - https://www.wwjdinc.org/service-locations.html

Web pages

• Home - https://www.wwjdinc.org/

Seniors First offers Meals on Wheels and Senior Cafes.

Meals on Wheels

A service designed to help Older Adults Age in Place by targeting people who are home alone during the day and who have difficulty preparing simple meals. For clients who need the service temporarily.

Eligibility

At the time services are provided, clients shall be:

• 62 years of age or older, sufficiently functionally impaired and homebound; or,
• The spouse, of any age, of an eligible client; or,
• A person with a disability (of any age) who lives with an eligible client.

Senior Cafés

The Senior Cafés program provides a hot, healthy lunch five days a week to seniors age 60 at over eight Senior Café locations throughout Placer County including Auburn, Lincoln, Rocklin and Roseville. The Senior Cafés are lively gathering places that help maintain clients' sense of community and connectedness.

Cost

Meals are provided for a small optional contribution. No one is ever turned away for lack of financial resources.

There is a suggested d…

Lighthouse Counseling & Family Resource Center, with locations in Lincoln, Roseville, Rocklin, and Auburn, provides low-cost and no-cost counseling and family support services to Placer County residents. 

Services are available in English and Spanish, and are open to all ages. 

Services include:

Counseling and Mental Health Services:

• Individual, couples, and family counseling
• Group therapy and peer support options
• Counseling available in English and Spanish
• Services for children, youth, and adults
• Eligibility limited to Placer County residents
• Insurance accepted includes Medi-Cal and Medi-Cal Managed Care (Partnership HealthPlan of California via Carelon)

Family Resource Center (FRC) Services:

• Case management and wellness planning for families in crisis
• Referrals from social workers, probation officers, or community organizations
• Educational workshops on financial literacy and employment readiness
• Basic needs support, including:
  • CalFresh and Medi-Cal enrollment
  • Diaper distribution …

The Salvation Army Auburn Corps provides a Food Pantry Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10am - 2pm (closed for lunch 12-12:30pm)
Tuesdays & Thursdays are by appointment only 

Lunch Distributions (for anyone)

Mon-Fri, 10am - 2pm (closed for lunch 12-12:30pm)

Web pages

• Home - https://auburn.salvationarmy.org/auburn/cure-hunger/

The The Salvation Army Corps in Auburn provides spiritual care and social services for Placer County residents, including emergency assistance and community programming.

Services include:

• A food pantry
• Ready-to-eat lunch bags for people experiencing homelessness
• Emergency financial assistance for rent and utilities (based on funding and zip code)
• Disaster relief services
• Referrals to rehabilitation programs
• Youth activities and summer camps
• Men's and women's fellowship groups
• Senior outreach and support
• Intermittent case management for adults and families

Web pages

• Home - https://auburn.salvationarmy.org/auburn/

The First United Methodist Church (FUMCL) operates a Food Closet that provides food and household essentials to Placer County families in need.

Food can be obtained at the church office at 6414 Brace Road, Loomis, from 10 am to 1 pm Monday through Friday. Four bags of food are offered once every month.

Under normal circumstances a Picture ID and proof of residency in the Loomis Basin (Loomis, Rocklin, Penryn, Ophir and Newcastle) is required.

Please stop by the church office if you are in need of food for your family.

Web pages

• Home - https://loomismethodist.org/
• Food Closet - https://loomismethodist.org/community/food-closet/

The Amazing Grace Seventh Day Adventist Church in Lincoln offers services, including food distribution, for people who are homeless.

Food Pantry:
Mon 12pm-2pm (or until bags run out)

Food Pantry Location:600 McBean Park Drive
Directions: Please line up along the side of the road by the church. You will be registered while waiting in line beginning at 12:00 noon. Food will be brought out to your car beginning at 1 p.m.

Services:

• Food Pantry
• Health Ministries Events
  • (E.g., FREE Summer Barbeque Online Vegan Cooking Class)
• Donations gladly accepted at the Better Living Center on Wednesdays between 10-11:30 a.m.

Web pages

• Home - https://lincolnamazinggraceca.adventistchurch.org/

The Salt Mine offers emergency services to the city of Lincoln and Sheridan residents only. Their main charitable activity is the food closet, presently offering emergency food to over one thousand needy families in the area each month.

In addition, they help with emergency clothing, household items, and transportation. Other emergency needs are met on an ’as available basis’ or by referral such as bathing and laundry facilities to name a few.

All items sold in these thrift shops are donated by local supporters.

The Salt Mine offers emergency and hot lunches Tue-Fri, 9am-12pm and Sat 12pm-1pm

Web pages

• Home - http://thesaltmine.org/
• Food Closet - https://www.thesaltmine.org/foodcloset