How We Help

The Trinity Center for Community is our outreach and social justice initiative. Programs include: Food security (Saturday Soup community meal and Tuesday Food Pantry), affordable housing assistance, job and leadership training, recovery and wellness coaching, financial literacy and empowerment, and arts and culture initiatives.

We also organize for systemic change, and we are a founding member of the Monmouth Housing Coalition.

Discover our Programs

Food Assistance

Trinity’s Food Pantry and Saturday Soup kitchen are run by wonderful local volunteers serving over 35,000 meals a year. We continuously work to get more local, healthy, and organic food to serve to our guests.

During our soup kitchen we have volunteer social workers and an acupuncturist who work to empower our guests and expands their options for their future.

Guests and volunteers in our pantry

TUESDAYS 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Trinity’s Food Pantry and Saturday Soup kitchen are run by wonderful local volunteers serving over 35,000 meals a year.  We continuously work to get more local, healthy, and organic food to serve to our guests.

During our soup kitchen we have volunteer social workers and an acupuncturist who work to empower our guests and expands their options for their future.

Photo of a volunteers lined up and ready to serve a community meal

SATURDAYS 11:30 AM – 1.00 PM
Come dine at our community meal. All are welcome.

Volunteer at our Saturday Community Meal
Saturdays 9:30AM – 2:30PM

Code Blue Shelter

Code Blue is Trinity’s emergency winter shelter. When temperatures drop below freezing, residents of Asbury Park and wider Monmouth County are invited to stay overnight in our building.

During the 2023-24 winter season, we served 345 individuals (21 percent of whom identified as women) over 65 nights, averaging over 50 people per night (and sometimes over 70 people).

Code Blue saves lives, and this year we are adding life-transforming resources like onsite casework support.

Code Blue requires tremendous resources of time, money, and gifts of food and supplies.

Contact us to learn how you can get involved.

Housing Assistance

Trinity believes that housing is a human right and that all people should have safe, stable housing.

We advocate for affordable housing for all, and our caseworkers assist in placing community members into housing. This housing support is made possible by your generous donations and by grants.

Our innovative Radical Wellbeing Program provides resources to help community members thrive in their housing, including lifeskills and financial empowerment coaching, mental health support, job placement, and recovery support.

Our caseworker with a client

Our Other Assistance Programs

We are commited to helping our neighbors in the community through our efforts in facilitating job and leadership training, recovery and wellness coaching, financial literacy and empowerment, and arts and culture initiatives.

We also organize for systemic change, and we are a founding member of the Monmouth Housing Coalition.

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