Community careline services - SF Night Ministry | California

Welcome to SF Night Ministry community careline service San Francisco, California. We are here for those people who are facing intense or crisis situations in their lives. You can contact us. Our CareLine is for everyone: (844) HOPE-4-SF / (844) 467-3473, 8 PM – 4 AM PST.

Our trained phone volunteers accompany anyone seeking spiritual and emotional support in the night hours of San Francisco. Counselors can dispatch night ministers to meet people in coffee shops, bars, hotels, SROs, and on the streets.

Most telephone lines are centered around a particular topic or have other restrictions. We are one of the very few counseling lines who will talk with anyone about anything.

And we are the only phone counselors who can arrange for a face-to-face conversation, and in the middle of the night. Care Line Counselors can dispatch a Night Minister to meet someone in an SRO, bar, hotel coffee shop, the streets . . . wherever they may be.

Our CareLine is also open to caregivers. So often, our neighbors who are front line providers of care to others need someone with whom to talk, who is not their partner or their family. Call our nightly Care Line! We will listen deeply, and without judgment, and offer a word of encouragement where possible.

Night Ministers walk the streets while Care Line counselors operate the telephones. The heart of our work occurs at night. We offer spiritual and emotional care and referral services on the streets, in the middle of the night, every night of the year.

We provide companionship to those who are lonely and isolated. We attend to mental and physical needs. We provide harm reduction for those at risk to themselves and others. We encounter many of the most vulnerable, who fall between the cracks of the city’s social services.

San Francisco Night Ministry also needs your immediate help so we can raise funds for homeless and helpless people in San Francisco.

We were privileged to have wonderful students from the Honors College of Law at Leiden University come walk with us Saturday night in the past. These generous folks also brought us socks as well as a large donation of funds they had raised for us.

You can also become a part of us. Get involved & help those who need your love and help. There are many ways to get involved: volunteering as a phone counselor or in support of our street programs; donating meals, silent auction items, and other resources; walking the streets with a night minister with your corporate team or community group; raising awareness in your own peer-to-peer fundraising campaign.

We also offer memorial service. Around the winter solstice, people all across the country remember unhoused people who have died that year. We partner with the Coalition on Homelessness, SF Interfaith Council, Faithful Fools, Skywatchers, and other groups who offer the annual Procession and Vigil in San Francisco. In 2018, we estimate that at least 241 people died on the streets and in single-room occupancy hotels. The actual number was likely much higher. We honor the anonymous along with the name.

We offer a variety of programs so people can find a community that most closely speaks to their understanding of reality & the Ultimate. Some programs are interfaith – widely inclusive of several religious traditions. Other programs are multifaith — deeply reflecting one particular tradition. We strive to be as inclusive as possible.

If you have a tent you can donate so that our unsheltered neighbors have some kind of way to shelter in place, please contact the Coalition on Homelessness at (415) 346-3740.