Urgent Needs

(Updated for November 2011)

Personal Care Items

  • Baby items: powder, lotion, Pull-ups
  • Feminine hygiene products
  • Deodorant
  • Disposable Razors
  • Travel-sized and regular-sized toiletries
    (soap, shampoo and conditioner, lotion)
  • Underwear – all sizes adult and child
  • Socks – all sizes adult and child
  • Foot powder
  • Rubbing alcohol
  • Adult diapers

Bed and Bath

  • Bath towels and wash cloths
  • Blankets
  • Twin sheets, pillows and pillow cases

Medicine

  • Antacids
  • Cold medicine
  • Cough Drops
  • Neosporin
  • Glucose tablets
  • Lice shampoo and bed spray
  • Pain relievers (acetaminophen, ibuprofen-tablet form)
  • Non-alcoholic cold/cough medicines (allergy medicine with antihistamine)
  • Vitamins

Miscellaneous

  • Gift cards for groceries (Walmart, Target, Walgreens, CVS, etc.)
  • Bus passes
  • Laundry baskets
  • Laundry detergent
  • Bathing chairs/stools (for disabled/elderly)

Cleaning supplies:

  • Brooms
  • Nylon bristle kitchen brooms
  • Industrial-size push brooms
  • Industrial yellow mop buckets
  • Mops and mop heads
  • Plastic spray bottles

Items may be dropped off Monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the back door of the Main Shelter (south side of the building) at 2400 Cypress Street, one block south of E. Lancaster.