Get Help

Are You Homeless? We Can Help.

Our 2024-2025 congregate shelters will host up to 50 adults each night from November 2, 2024 – April 18, 2025. We have one site for men and one site for women, and we welcome non-binary folx where they feel most safe and comfortable.

We look forward to welcoming you for our 21st winter of service!

Street to Shelter

1. Check the Calendar

Current season:

Nov 2, 2024-Apr 18, 2025

5:30pm-7:00am

2. Review Options

Our shelter is a “last resort” when you have no other place to go.

  • Can you stay safely with family or friends?
  • Can you stay at the Salvation Army?
  • Do you have resources in another community?

3. Get Shelter

Current sites listed below. Please be our guest, arrive 5:30pm-7pm, but do not wait for us earlier than 5pm.

We do not require photo ID, breathalyzer, drug tests, or background check.

Service animals only.

Men’s Site

Nov 30-Dec 13, 2024

Trinity Episcopal Church
1118 Preston Ave

NOTE: enter through the sanctuary doors facing Preston

Women’s Site

Nov 30-Dec 6, 2024

Portico Church
981 2nd St SE

NOTE: Inside IX Park

Next, Dec 7-13: St Paul’s Memorial Church
1701 University Ave, across from the UVA Rotunda

Shelter to Home

PACEM can help you move back into the community and out of our shelters. A Case Manager/Advocate will work with you, meeting with you one-on-one at least every 14 days. Our goal is to help you along the path from Street to Home. With our help, a total of 50 individuals moved into a stable home during the 2019-2020 shelter season. These homes include private, market rate rental apartments, moving back in with family and friends, public housing, nursing homes, and assisted living. In addition to those who found stable housing, we helped guests get into  a more structured shelter with work and/or sobriety requirements and guided guests as they reconnected with their family support network.

Other Help Available in Greater Charlottesville

Homeless? Call the Homeless Information Line, 434-207-2328.

Facing eviction or loss of housing but not yet on the streets? Call based on your current residence:

For additional community resources, check out the latest Street Sheet (March 2024: English PDF; Spanish PDF from Jan 2024), updated quarterly by our student partners at UVA.

Region Ten CSB
434-972-1800
mental health, addiction services		The Haven at First and Market
434-973-1234
day resource center		On Our Own
434-979-2440
peer support, recovery services
Offender Aid and Restoration
434-296-2441
re-entry services		Home to Hope
434-970-3601
re-entry peer support		Network 2 Work
434-961-5255
job placement and training
Central Virginia Health Services
434-227-5624
healthcare services		The Women’s Initiative
434-872-0047
women’s mental health services		Virginia Employment Commission
434-282-2594
income development

Outside of Charlottesville? Find Help Where You Are!

PACEM serves our neighbors local to the City of Charlottesville and counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Louisa, Nelson, and Greene. If you’re not our local neighbor, here’s where to find help:

  • Waynesboro/Augusta: WARM (winter shelter November-March, and other programs)
  • Staunton: Valley Mission (programmatic/year-round shelter)
  • Culpeper/Orange/Madison: CHASS (year-round shelter), Culpeper Winter Heat Shelter
  • Harrisonburg/Rockingham: Open Doors (winter shelter November-March, and other programs)
  • Lynchburg/Amherst/Appomattox/Bedford/Campbell: CHIA (homeless hotline)
  • Richmond/Goochland/Henrico/Chesterfield: Homeless Connection Line (homeless hotline)