In addition to the shelters listed below, there is a list of crisis support resources on the Family Center website.
New Hampshire shelters
New Hampshire HelpLine
Contact: 800-852-3388
Available 24/7, October through April. They will help locate shelter and/or can page homeless shelter coordinator. During the months of April through October, the helpline is open 8:30 am to 8:30 pm. If you need assistance after these hours call the local police department
Claremont
- Southwestern Community Services
603-542-3160
Homeless shelter
Concord
- Friends Emergency Housing
603-228-1462
Capacity: 23; One handicap accessible; Will take families - Salvation Army
603-225-5586
Capacity: 24; No children
Dover
- My Friend's Place
603-749-3017
Capacity: 18
Franconia
- Bancroft House
603-823-8842
Franklin
- Franklin Shelter
603-934-3404
Keene
- Monadnock Area Shelter
603-357-1654
Capacity: 7 single males, 3 single females, up to 6 families
Laconia
- Kerry House
603-528-8086
Lancaster
- Tyler Blain House
603-788-2344
Capacity: 8; Families and individuals
Lebanon/Upper Valley
- Tri-County Cap Homeless Programs
Cold Weather Program
603-443-6150
Hours: 8:00 am to 4:30 pm during the week. If you need assistance after hours and on the weekends, please call Headrest at 603-448-4400 and ask for the cold weather program.
Manchester
- Families in Transition
603-641-9441
Capacity: 40 families or single women - Helping Hands
603-623-8778
Transitional housing for men in recovery - New Horizons for New Hampshire
603-668-1877
Capacity: 76 men and women over 18; No children; Wet shelter
Nashua
- Harbor Homes
603-882-3616
Capacity: 3 women, 2 men & 2 families - Nashua Housing Authority
603-883-5661 - Nashua Pastoral Care Center
603-886-2866 - Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter
603-889-7770
Ashe St. Shelter: 20 men, women, or families
Kinsley St. Shelter: 10 single women or famillies - Salvation Army Food Pantry, Serves Nashua, Merrimack, Hudson, and Litchfield, New Hampshire
603-883-7841 - Southern New Hampshire Services Inc., Nashua, New Hampshire
877-211-0723
Peterborough
- Monadnock Area Transitional Housing
603-924-5033
Plymouth
Portsmouth
- Crossroads House
603-436-2218
Capacity: 107 individuals and families
Vermont shelters
Barre
- Good Samaritan Haven
802-479-2294
PO Box 1104 Barre, VT 05641
Brattleboro
- Brattleboro Area Drop In Center
802-257-5415
60 South Main Street Brattleboro, VT 05302
Not an overnight center - Morningside Shelter
802-257-0066 - Women's Freedom Center
802-254-6954
Collect calls accepted
For women and children
Burlington
- Burlington Emergency Shelter
802-862-9879
For adult men and women
PO Box 1481
Burlington, VT 05402 - COTS
802-864-7402
Firehouse Family Shelter (families)
and Waystation (adults: 36 beds) - Women Helping Battered Women
802-658-1996
Battered women's shelter
Chelsea
- Safeline Community Action
802-685-7900
Battered women's shelter
PO Box 254, Chelsea, VT 05038
Middlebury
- John W. Graham Emergency Shelter
Day: 802-877-2521
After hours: 802-877-2048
Capacity: 17; Families and individuals
Morrisville
- Clarina Howard Nichols Center
802-888-5256
Battered women's shelter
Women and children up to 28 days
Rutland
- Open Door Mission
802-775-5661
John Cassarino Overnight, 15 beds
David Dean Veterans, 18 beds - Rutland County Women's Network
802-775-6788
Battered women's shelter
Springfield
- Springfield Family Center
802-885-3646
White River Junction
- Upper Valley Haven
802-295-6500
Capacity: 8 families