Drop-In Center

GMC maintains drop-in office hours from 10:00am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday, and 10:00am to 2:00pm, Saturday and Sunday, for counseling, information, and referral services. With additional office hours and outreach activities in the afternoons and evenings, GMC staff and volunteers are available to clients at least 40 hours a week.

After an initial needs assessment, GMC helps clients access entitlements, transitional and permanent housing, mental health and substance abuse treatment, and employment programs.

GMC’s Clubhouse

In July 2011, GMC reopened after two months of renovations. We have loosely adopted a clubhouse model as a way of empowering our guests. We encourage our “members” to take pride in the space they share by assisting in keeping the place tidy and by working together with staff to decide on the day-to-day policies of the center.

Shower and Laundry

When we moved into our new facility in September of 2003 we have been able to offer showers and laundry services to our guests. After remodeling our center and reopening our doors with extended hours in July 2011, we can now accommodate up to 20 showers and 5 loads of laundry a day during the week, and 10 showers and 3 loads of laundry on the weekends.

Street Outreach

GMC Staff visit the most vulnerable and withdrawn of the homeless on the streets in the alleys and under bridges to offer services, a friendly ear, or if nothing else, to perhaps prevent a hypothermia death.

Psychiatrist

Since 1997, GMC has brought competent, caring psychiatry to the streets and alleys where homeless people reside. The psychiatrist sees homeless people one evening a week and on an emergency basis as needed. The psychiatrist engages treatment-resistant homeless persons in the center, on the streets and at our shelter.

Winter Shelter

GMC started the shelter on a pilot basis for six weeks during the winter of 1993. Today’s program serves ten homeless people beginning in November and ending at the end of March. The shelter is open from 7:00PM to 7:00AM, seven days a week and rotates semi-monthly among member congregations in Georgetown. The Winter Shelter provides an opportunity for shelter residents to establish warm, supportive relationships with staff and volunteers and also among themselves. The Shelter employs the safe-haven model encouraged by HUD, offering a comfortable, friendly, low-demand environment designed to appeal to our most vulnerable and service-resistant homeless people.