Shelters

• Hope Housing for Students
  Services: Provide hope to community college students experience housing instability
  Phone: (626) 999-1856
  Email: hopehousing@theshowerofhope.org

• LBCC Safe Parking Program
  Services: on-campus providing a safe and convenient location to sleep in your vehicle overnight
  Contact: For more information
  Email: applybasicneeds@lbcc.edu
  Phone: (562) 938-5045
  Benefits: Safe and secure place to sleep overnight, Wi-Fi, restrooms/showers
  Hours: 10:00pm – 7:00am (no re-entry after 11:00pm)

• Long Beach Multi-Services Center for the Homeless
  Services: serves as a ‘one-stop’ location for most of the emergency and transitional shelters in the city of Long Beach
  Phone: (562) 570-4500
  Location: 1301 West 12th Street, Long Beach, CA 90813
  Intake Hours: Mondays – Fridays at 8:30am (Bring ID)
  Webpage: https://www.longbeach.gov/homelessness/

• Long Beach Rescue Missions
  Services: Emergency shelter
  Phone: (562) 591-1292
  Location: 1430 Pacific Ave. Long Beach, CA 90813
  Intake Hours: Must arrive to shelter before 4pm
  Webpage: https://lbrm.org

• New Image Emergency Shelter
  Phone: (562) 822-7657
  Webpage: https://www.newimageshelter.com

• Interval House Crisis Shelters and Centers for Victims of Domestic Violence
  Services: Domestic violence shelter
  Phone: (562) 594-4555 (24/7 Hotline)
  Webpage: https://intervalhouse.org

• Women Shelter of Long Beach
  Services: Domestic violence shelters for women and their children
  24 Hour Hotline: (562) 437-4663
  Phone: (562) 437-7233
  Email: info@womenshelterlb.org
  Webpage: https://www.womenshelterlb.org

• Su Casa, Long Beach
  Services: Domestic Violence Shelter
  24 Hour Hotline: (562) 402-4888
  Webpage: https://sucasadv.org

Transportation

• Bike Share For All
  BSFA provides eligible residents, college or university students, and workers in Long Beach with a $5 annual rate for Long Beach Bike Share. The City’s bike share program is a reduce cost membership plan available to anyone enrolled in a qualifying federal or state assistance program.
  
  Phone: (562) 570-3456
  Email: LBBikeShare@longbeach.gov

• Long Beach Transit
  The LBCC Strong Beach Bus Pass Pilot Program offers all currently enrolled students the opportunity to receive a free LA Metro GoPass.
  
  Email: basicneeds@lbcc.edu
  
  The only criteria are that a student is enrolled in the current term (including for example full-time, part-time, in-person, online, credit/non-credit, and dual-enrollment students).
  
  ​For students to receive the free LA Metro GoPass:

  • Log in to your Viking Portal.
  • Click the Viking Student Systems tab.
  • Click Student Services, and under “My Participation Agreements” submit the LA Metro GoPass Agreement.
• Dial-A-Lift (DAL)
  Services: a curb-to-curb shared-ride paratransit services exclusively for individuals with qualifying disabilities who are unable to use LBT’s fixed-route bus system
  Cities: Long Beach, Lakewood, Signal Hill, Paramount
  Contact: Dial (562) 591-8753 for Dial-A-Lift information or additional question. Visit accessla.org, dial (800) 827-0829 (Toll Free) or (800) 827-1359 (TDD).
  Email: cserv@accessla.org

Household Resources

• California Women, Infants, & Children (WIC)
  If you are pregnant or have a child under 5, WIC can help provide nutritious foods, breastfeeding support, and more resources to keep your growing family healthy.

• CalKIDS
  The California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program (CalKIDS) launched in 2022 by the State of California aims to help more children save for their future education.

• Christian Outreach in Action
  We provide free diapers once a week to parents in need Diaper Bank Distributed outside of our 3rd. St. doors (Corner of 3rd. & Linden)
  When: Fridays: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
  Requirements: Must provide a form of legal documentation for your child (Birth Certificate, Immunization Record, Medi-CAL benefits card, etc.) MUST be parent or legal guardian, and Child needs to be present. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED!

• Low-cost Broadband Internet
  Eligibility: if anyone in your home is currently enrolled in SNAP, WIC, Medi-Cal, CalFresh, or any government assistance program – your household is eligible.
  Text: INTERNET to 211-211 to start the process on your phone.

• The California Earned Income Tax Credit
  Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) are available for working individuals with low to moderate income, potentially offering a cash refund or reduced taxes owed.

• The Young Child Tax Credit
  If you qualify for CalEITC and have a child under the age of 6*, you may also qualify for a refundable tax credit of up to $1,154 through the Young Child Tax Credit! If you qualify, you may see a reduced tax bill or a bigger refund.