OurCalling

OurCalling

About this app

You are driving when you see a homeless person on the side of the road. You want to help. You reach for your phone and open the OurCalling Homeless Service app. You click on “Identify” and quickly snap a picture, notifying outreach workers who will follow up with the individual. You want to do more, so you engage in conversation and begin helping the person by using the app and sharing what local services are available. Before you know it, you have just helped a complete stranger take a step in the right direction.

Through the OurCalling Homeless Service app you are able to search for resources in every city throughout the country. Looking for the closest shelter, food pantry, domestic violence center or addiction recovery resource? This app will guide you.

This app is funded by donations from people like you and helps homeless individuals all across the country. Click on the “Donate” button in the app and make an immediate impact.

The data in this app is crowdsourced - Help more people by using the “Submit” feature to add a new resource.

Features:
• Gain access to the largest database of service providers for the homeless.
• Search in any city and numerous categories (shelter, domestic violence, medical clinic, food pantry, rehab, etc...)
• View listings on a map or sort the list by distance from your current location.
· Share resource information to pass on a referral.
· Offline access for services when you mark them as Favorite.
• Report updates on resources in your area.
• Report a homeless camp location.
• Reporting for camp locations in Dallas, TX will be visited by OurCalling's Search and Rescue teams.

Ratings and reviews

This is brilliant. Easy to use and informative. People (you) can help by adding resources and information for the people that are in need, in your community. There's a tab on the app to do that. Most homeless DO have cell phones. They're provided to them! Please spread the word about this app 🙂

The app doesn't show what individual resources are available for a particular location and what time/day they are available. When using the search feature that I know a provider has I get a no results message.

I'm a professional musician sound engineer and producer and I spent many years as a traveling musician this app is very out of touch with reality. Homeless people need a home, not an app. I saw this thing on Dr. Phil, I had a feeling it would be kinda stupid. This app is no better than a person going to The Salvation Army or any of the resources that are already available. They forgot something big, not all homeless people have phones, duh.

What's new

Initial release of the brand new OurCalling app, with the features you already know and love.