The ARK Project is a Coos Bay School District school-based program that provides basic needs, essential support services, crisis intervention and advocacy. Services include: drop in center, food pantry, children's clothing, school supplies, personal grooming supplies, feminine hygiene supplies, mentoring, information and referrals for other assistance agencies, and assistance in applying for ID forms.

Provides basic needs for babies and children, including diapers, wipes and formula. Basic services are limited to once every 30 days.

Provides personal hygiene items such as toilet paper, toothbrushes, menstrual care products, and shelf-stable pantry items. Some frozen and plant based options are also offered. Limited school supplies such as pencils and notebooks. All items are subject to availability.

Helps supply needed school supplies to students throughout the year.

Helps supply needed school supplies to students throughout the year.

Helps supply needed school supplies to students throughout the year.

Helps supply needed school supplies to students throughout the year.

Assists youth with employment and education support, financial literacy, and career development. Including but not limited to job shadows and paid work placement opportunities, school re-enrollment support including GED preparation, budgeting, resume help, and navigating OHP and healthcare systems. Application support for unemployment, Social Security, driver’s licenses, and more. Also includes a youth job board.

Assists youth with employment and education support, financial literacy, and career development. Including but not limited to job shadows and paid work placement opportunities, school re-enrollment support including GED preparation, budgeting, resume help, and navigating OHP and healthcare systems. Application support for unemployment, Social Security, driver’s licenses, and more. Also includes a youth job board.

Provides services such as clothing and school supplies for foster (resource) families needing extra assistance.

Shopping-style food pantry providing a 5-day supply of food to households. Also provides pet food, hygiene items, household supplies, and clothing as available.

Serves families living in poverty, working hand in hand with families to connect them to food, shelter, clothing, heating, school supplies, health services, or whatever the need.

Offers school supplies depending on availability. Donations accepted.

Youth shelter providing temporary emergency shelter for up to 120 days with written parent/guardian consent or 72 hours without written consent. Services for sheltered and unsheltered youth include case management, mentoring, housing search assistance, and counseling services. Bathing facilities, school supplies, laundry facilities, a clothing closet, and personal grooming supplies are also provided.

An online resource for foster and former foster youth to access programs that help provide various services

Connects people in need with local churches and service agencies. Basic goods and services are offered to clients as they are donated. Services available may include, but are not limited to: bicycles, breakfast/lunch bags, bus passes, clothing closets (adults and children), community meals, counseling services, diapers, haircuts, housecleaning services, H.U.G.S. (hats, umbrellas, gloves, scarves & socks), kitchen supplies, laundry service, bedding/linens, personal grooming supplies/toiletries, over-the-counter medications, personal care kits, physical therapy, showers, water bill assistance, yard work, and firewood. All services go through the Love INC Clearinghouse. After meeting with a specialist, the client will be issued vouchers to receive appropriate services from local partners. Assistance is determined on an individual basis and is not guaranteed.

Accepts donations of bedding and linen, clothing, personal grooming supplies, and school supplies.

Weekly rotating meeting place for LGBTQIA2s+ youth to hang out, make friends, find support, and participate in fun activities. Resource closet provides hygiene products, school supplies, sexual health items, and gender and orientation affirming products such as binders, identity flags, clothing, and pronoun pins.

Provides a clothes closet, food pantry, school supplies, hygiene supplies, and support.

Provides school supplies and backpacks to children of eligible active duty military personal. Donations accepted year-round.

The Education of Homeless Children and Youth Program, authorized as Title X under the No Child Left Behind Act, ensures that homeless students are provided a free, appropriate public education despite lack of fixed place of residence or a supervising parent or guardian. An advocate is available to access resources and to ensure the student's education is not impacted in a major way.

Assistance for qualifying households may include:
-Assistance with academic fees
-Feasible transportation to school of origin (school attended when student qualified for Title X)
-Free meals at school
-School clothes and supplies
-Referrals to health and dental care
-Referrals to rental and housing assistance

The Learning Child program provides backpacks of school supplies once a year to school children in need. The Mercy Foundation pays for the supplies and the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) in Roseburg distributes them each fall for the new school year. The majority of the backpacks are distributed to children already receiving services through the ODHS. If there are any left over, staff may be able to provide them to the general public.

Provides back-to-school supplies, Christmas gifts, and birthday cards.

Free clothing provided to all in need. Donations always needed and welcomed.

Provides school and office supplies in the Free Store to teachers. Supplies include basic items (pens, pencils, paper, notebooks and backpacks), incentives (small toys and stickers) various arts and crafts, K-12 books, room supplies (dry erase boards, classroom decor and math/science manipulatives) and various office supplies (binder clips, index cards, notepads, tape and staplers).