First United Methodist Church (FUMC) offers the Helping Hands feeding program every Monday at noon.
 

Food Pantry 3rd Thursday of every month from 4:30pm-6:30pm

St. Vincent de Paul's Dining Room program provides a warm, prepared meal three days a week, and a cold meal two days a week. Volunteers create and serve balanced meals to hundreds of clients each week. All are welcome.

Dining Room hours of operation are:

• Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 12pm – 1:30pm
• Saturday and Sunday, 2:30pm – 4pm
• Closed Friday and Monday

105 Bonita Avenue
Roseville, California 95678

Roseville - Daily Free Meal
In collaboration with our community partners, The Salvation Army & First United Methodist Church, a free meal is available to both homeless and low-income individuals and families in Roseville every day of the week and helps to meet their basic nutritional needs.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.placersvdp.com/

St. Vincent de Paul provides individuals and families groceries through the Food Locker Program. Also hygiene packets as available. SVDP also offers families with infants and small toddlers:

• Baby formula
• Baby food
• Diapers
• Feminine hygiene (pads, liners, tampons) also known as period, menstruation, or menstrual supplies or products

FOOD LOCKER
Eligibility
To be eligible for participation in the Food Locker Program all clients may complete an application if they are a resident of Placer County, show proof of current residency, and provide a valid form of photo identification.
 
Applications
Applications can be obtained and processed during business hours at St. Vincent De Paul's office located at:
503 Giuseppe Court, Suite 8
Roseville, California 95678
Monday – Wednesday –  Friday
9-11am

Food Distributions
Monday – Wednesday – Friday
9 am-11 am
Closed on Saturday and Sunday and all major holidays.
Location: 503 Guiseppi Court, Suite #8, Roseville
Contact: 916-781-3303

Drop-in benefits information and application assistance is provided by the Navigator team from the Nevada County Department of Social Services at three libraries each month. Stop by if you need help enrolling in, or renewing your participation in, benefits programs such as

• Cash Assistance - CalWORKs & more
• Food Assistance - CalFresh
• Healthcare - Medi-Cal
• Housing
• In-Home Supportive Services
• Veterans Services

While these resources are always available to the public, having them all together during the Services Drop-In allows you to learn, at the same meeting, such things as what kind of support is available for seniors, how you can proceed with child support, and which doctors take your insurance. These are drop-in services and no appointment is necessary.

Social Services Drop-In days and locations

• Grass Valley Library, 207 Mill St, Grass Valley, CA 95945, 530-273-4117
  • First Tuesdays, 10:30am-12:30pm
  • First Saturdays, 10am-2pm
• Madelyn Helling Library, 980 Helling Way, Nevada City, CA 95959,…

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Apply for benefits at Human Services drop-in service
Two mornings each week an eligibility specialist from County of Placer Human Services is available to assist eligible individuals applying for Medi-Cal, CalFresh, CalWORKs, and General Relief.

The drop-in service is open Monday and Thursday (excluding holidays) from 8am-12pm at 415 Roseville Square, Roseville, CA, 95678.

The program aims to streamline the process of applying for and managing food, healthcare, and other essential benefits. Residents can get assistance and ask questions about the status of their benefits. Bilingual support is available.

For more information about the service, call 530-889-7689. To apply for or manage benefits online, visit benefitscal.com or connect with Human Services.

Apply for / Access Public Benefits Online (Medi-Cal, CalFresh, CalWORKS, Disaster CalFresh, General Assistance)
Go to BenefitsCal.com to apply for or renew benefits, upload verification, and view information regarding health coverage, food, … [read more]

The Meadow Vista Friendly Neighbors organization serves Meadow Vista, Clipper Gap, Christian Valley, Applegate, and Weimar residents. Throughout the year Meadow Vista Friendly Neighbors may be able to provide emergency food to people in need, and in December they provide Christmas Baskets.

The Salvation Army offers a small emergency food pantry to help until individuals/families are able to make it to a normal distribution through Food Bank of Nevada County or Interfaith Food Ministries.

The San Juan Ridge Family Resource Center (FRC) provides families in the San Juan Ridge area with information and referrals to local resources, services, and facilities on a drop-in basis for visitors of all ages.

NOTE: The FRC does NOT have any housing resources and does NOT have any gift cards, gas cards, etc.

Services the FRC does offer include: computer, phone, fax, printer, children's play space, clothes closet, food pantry, diapers, lending and reference libraries, information, referrals, parenting support, weekly children's playgroup, summer camps, adult yoga, children's dance classes, and periodic events. Call for more information.

The San Juan Ridge Family Resource Center has laundry vouchers and bus passes free to clientsupon request. Bus passes are issued as 2 one-way trips with transfers that can be used on all routes to make a roundtrip from the San Juan Ridge. Depending on the needs of the client additional passes can be issued. Laundry vouchers come with one detergent po… [read more]

The Placer Food Bank (PFB) is proud to introduce the Feed Our Future Program. Under this umbrella of services, they are able to provide food assistance to a wide variety of clients.

Free Drive-thru Food Distributions
The free drive-thru food distributions offer fresh seasonal California-grown produce and non-perishable food items. Drive through locations are held weekly in the following locations: Cameron Park, Colfax, Forest Hill, Georgetown, Lincoln, Placerville, Pollock Pines, Rocklin, Sheridan. Click here for locations and schedules.

Backpack Program
Statistically, 1 in 5 children in Placer, El Dorado and Nevada counties don’t know where their next meal will come from.
Most of these childrens’ primary source of food comes from meals provided by school programs. While many of us look forward to weekends and holidays with anticipation, these students approach these days with anxiety and apprehension.
This is why PFB developed The BackPack Program: to provide … [read more]