Community Services

The list below is not exhaustive, but offers representative organizations in need of help.

  • Friends Association (Serves Families with Children with shelter and rent support) 113 West Chestnut St. West Chester, PA 19380. 610-431-3598
  • Family Promise of Southern Chester County (Serves families with dependent children in the Oxford area, Avon Grove, Kennett Consolidated and Unionville-Chadds Ford School Districts) – 1156 W. Baltimore Pike, PO Box 394, Kennett Square, PA 19348. 610-444-0400
  • CYWA (Community Youth and Women’s Alliance) (Shelter for Women and Families, food cupboard) – 423 E. Lincoln Highway, Coatesville, PA, 19320. 610-384-9591
  • Domestic Violence Center of Chester County (Shelters & supports abused women and children) – 610-431-1430
  • Home of the Sparrow (Shelters & supports women and children) – 610-647-4940
  • Chester County Partnership to End Homelessness ( Mission: preventing and ending homelessness in Chester County, Pennsylvania)
  • Saint Agnes Parish, Dorothy Day Room (Provides a welcome place during the day, provides food) – 233 West Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380. 610-692-2990
  • Act in Faith (Works to build a community that empowers the un- and under-employed to stabilize their households and build toward self-sustainability. (Provides food and household supplies – need increasing incrementally in recent years) – 484-324-8492
  • Food Cupboard of Kennett Square (Provides food and household supplies – need increasing incrementally in recent years) – 136 West Cedar Street Kennett Square, PA 19348. 610-925-3556
  • West Chester Food Cupboard (Provides food and household supplies – need increasing incrementally in recent years) – 431 S. Bolmar St. West Chester. 610-344-3175