Agency Details:

Ritter Center

Our mission is about preventing homelessness. We are a center, a community within a community, with services aimed at preventing homelessness. And for those that are already without stable housing, our services help to reintegrate individuals and families into society.

Description:
Ritter Center, based in downtown San Rafael, is a community-based nonprofit organization that has assisted Marin’s low-income and homeless population for over 28 years. We help the homeless and very low-income residents of Marin – individuals and families – stabilize their lives by offering a number of social services: case management ; primary health care; emergency food and clothing ; emergency financial assistance; showers, laundry, and restroom facilities; general delivery mail and voicemail . All of our programs and services are provided free of charge.

Ritter Center is Marin’s primary access point for the provision of social services. In addition to the agency’s own programs, Ritter Center maintains a thorough referral network to link clients to other vital services available in our community. Ritter Center serves as a critical safety-net for Marin’s low-income, homeless, and other at-risk populations and helps those in need to become more self-reliant. Ritter Center’s main outcomes are transitioning people into housing, employment, and health, mental health and substance abuse treatment as well as improving people’s day to day living conditions.

History:
Ritter Center was established in 1980 to respond to the need of the County’s low-and-no-income residents. All programs at Ritter Center focus on providing highly professional services with respect and compassion and on assuring that effective case management enables clients to access related services that provide an integrated response to complex needs.

Contact person: Vanessa Allen, (phone), (email)

Main office number: (415) 457-8182
Office fax number: (415) 457-7471

Address:

16 Ritter Street, P.O. Box 3517 San Rafael, CA 94912 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.rittercenter.org

Last updated on September 9, 2009