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Catholic Charities provides emergency services to the central Minnesota area.
Emergency services can include basic everyday essentials such as clothing or cookware, access to healthy meals for you and your family and financial assistance.
What to bring:
If this is your first time visiting Catholic Charities Emergency Services, it’s helpful to bring the following items. Participants will not be refused service without these items. If you have visited Emergency Services in the last year and your file is current, please provide a photo ID.
- Identification for everyone in your household; Driver's license, state-issued ID card, medical insurance card or birth certificate
- Your address and all individuals residing at the address
- Knowledge of income to determine TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program) eligibility.
- Bringing your own boxes and bags is encouraged.
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Have Questions?
Call us at (320) 229-4560
Basic Everyday Essentials
The Basic Everyday Essentials program serves individuals living in the Diocese of St. Cloud and helps those in need with the basic essentials of daily living. This includes seasonally and work-appropriate clothing, bedding, towels, cookware and dinnerware.
- Essentials are available to households in need on a one time per calendar month basis.
- Items are available at no cost.
- Availability of items is dependent upon donations.
- Identification is requested when accessing your account to tell you apart from other persons with a similar name and for maintaining accurate records.
Please
call us to discuss emergency requests for additional serves in a month.
Catholic Charities Emergency Services requests that you make an appointment at least 24 hours in advance of your visit.
Customers with an account in our PantrySoft database who have a username and password can make an appointment by clicking the Schedule Appointment button below. (No same-day appointments. Please leave one hour between Food and BEE appointments.)
**If you are a NEW customer, or do not have an email address, please call our appointment messaging line at 320.229.4567 and leave your name and number for us to help you over the phone.
***Arriving late will forfeit your appointment and you become a walk-in. We do our best to accommodate walk-ins during program hours on a first come, first served basis. Walk-ins should arrive at least 2 hours before our closing time.
Contact the Basic Everyday Essentials Program
Catholic Charities Basic Everyday Essentials
Phone: (320) 229-4560
Toll-Free: 800-830-8254
Email: emergencyservices@ccstcloud.org
Fax: (320) 229-4562
Hours
Monday: 9 am – 3 pm
Wednesday: 11 am – 7 pm
Friday: 9 am – 3 pm
Location
157 Roosevelt Rd
Ste 100
St. Cloud, MN 56301
Food Shelf
Catholic Charities Emergency Services Food Shelf provides access to healthy food for people faced with missing meals. We connect people able and willing to help, with those facing challenges in meeting their own or their family’s basic needs.
Catholic Charities is
SuperShelf certified – a location that excels at providing a welcoming environment for communities to access appealing, healthy food.
Financial Assistance
Catholic Charities Emergency Financial Assistance provides immediate, short-term assistance to individuals and families in financial crisis.
We may be able to help your family with items such as fuel cards, transportation, apartment application fees, prescriptions, birth certificates, or state IDs/driver's license renewals.
Payments are made to vendors; no cash is exchanged.
In-Home Program
Catholic Charities In-Home Program is part of our services to persons with developmental disabilities. We also serve those with brain injuries. Our program helps with the development and reinforcement of personal care and daily living skills. We work on skills one on one, in group settings, in the community and in the home of those served.