Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter

Shelter operations run from late November until Mid-March. Check website for details.

Website

http://www.interfaith-shelter.org/

The Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter of Davis is a community-based effort enabling member congregations to provide cold-weather shelter and hospitality on a rotating basis to persons who are homeless in the Davis community.

• Congregations sign up for 1 or more week(s) and serve as host sites for rotating winter shelter.
  

• Trained volunteers at a separate Intake Center carefully screen guests (behavioral assessment)
  

• Guests are transported to host congregations by shelter volunteers.
  

• Congregations provide a warm welcome, supper, and a dry place to sleep
  

• Next morning: Guests do chores and return to Intake Center
  

• Number of Guests: 10-25 (possibly higher during extreme weather)
  

• The Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter provides client screening, overnight staff, training, transportation to and from congregations, insurance, and much more. We need congregations to partner with!

The Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter (IRWS) started as the Interfaith Homeless Task Force in 2005 in an attempt to address the challenges facing Davis's homeless during the cold and wet winter months. Over the years representatives from many organizations (see below) have worked with IRWS.

The shelter had been the subject of complains by neighbors and the issue went all the way to the City Council. It was resolved at the January 12^th 2010 meeting.

Congregations

• Congregation Bet Haverim
  

• Davis Community Church
  

• Davis Lutheran Church
  

• Davis United Methodist Church
  

• First Baptist Church
  

• Islamic Center of Davis
  

• Lutheran Church of the Incarnation
  

• St. James Catholic Church
  

• The Episcopal Church of St. Martin
  

• University Covenant Church
  

• Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis

Non-Profits and UC Davis Groups

• Davis Community Meals
  

• Grace in Action
  

• UC Davis Interfaith Campus Council
  

• Help and Education Leading to Prevention
  

• Homeless, American Indians, Gays & Lesbians, and Students (H.A.G.S.)

Social Service Agencies

• National Association for the Mentally Ill (N.A.M.I)
  

• Yolo County Elder & Disability Services
  

• Yolo County Mental Health

• The California Aggie article about the 2008 year.
  

• The Davis Voice Homeless are Sheltered Another Day 2010-02-02

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