Our Day Center began operations on Thursday June 6,2019! Our doors are open from 8am-2pm and we offer showers provided by the Wave Project 8:00 am to 9:30 am , a light breakfast (8:00 am - 10:30 am), lunch (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm). brown bag lunch to go is also available. The Day Center will be open every Thursday throughout the year. The Day Center will provide services that will help homeless guests search for housing, and help with physical and mental health issues. We will be limited to 40 guests per day. Check out a video of our Day Center created by TVWarren! Click here!
We also host many service providers in our community. We have the Community Housing Network, Macomb County Public Health Dept, Macomb County Community Mental Health Services, Lakeshore Legal Aid and Paul Mitchell School of Beauty (who will provide haircuts for our guests).
We love having volunteers to serve breakfast and lunch and help with guest intake and guest services. We appreciate other congregations and groups in the area who are willing to donate/prepare lunch and appreciate the many restaurants that support us.
Volunteer opportunities:
AM Guest intake 8:30am till 12:30pm
AM Guest services 8:30am till 12:30pm
Breakfast servers (3) 8:30am till 12;30pm
PM Guest Intake 12noon till 4:00pm
PM Guest Services 12noon till 4:30pm
Lunch Servers 12noon till 3pm
Email Keith: keith@firstofwarren.com
Or call: 586-751-1721
Please see our wish list of items we could use:
Women’s Underwear: All sizes Small thru XXL
Women’s Socks
Men’s Underwear: Small, Medium and Large
Men’s T:Shirts Small, Medium and Large
Travel Size Tooth brushes
Travel size Tooth Paste
Gently used books to build a library for our guests to take with them.
Adult coloring books and colored pencils.
Word Search and Cross Word Books.
Games= Chess, Checkers, Scrabble, Jigsaw puzzles and other Board games.
Guest Rules
No possession or use of ALCHOLOL, DRUGS OR WEAPONS allowed in or around the perimeter of the Day Center.
No Foul Language allowed in the facility and/or around the perimeter of the Day center.
No Physical Contact allowed with Volunteers and guests.
No Sexual Harassment, Lewd Conduct or Public Displays of Affections with volunteers or guests.
No Destruction of Day center property.
No Open Containers will be allowed into the Day Center.
No Arguing, Nagging or Harassing of the Volunteers.
No Bags will be left at the Day Center, any bags left here will be discarded.