Trinity Streets consists of a Sunday afternoon worship service and meal.  More than 100 volunteers organize and implement the program on a rotating basis throughout the year for 80 neighbors weekly.  Partners in the program include St. David’s Episcopal, St. James’ Episcopal, and St. George’s Episcopal Churches, Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Trinity Episcopal School, Triumphant Love Lutheran Church, Travis Christian Assembly, and Agape Christian Ministries.

Woman to Woman includes a devotional time, breakfast, tea and coffee, and fellowship.  Volunteers serve as personal shoppers, assisting neighbors with “shopping” for clothes, accessories, and toiletry items from the Center’s clothing closet.  Approximately 40 neighbors participate every week, along with ten to twelve volunteers from a pool of 25.  This program seeks to meet the special needs of women experiencing homelessness.

The Trinity Center Bridge Program consists of recreational activities and lunch on two Saturdays per month for families from The Salvation Army shelter and volunteer families from St. David’s Episcopal Church, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, and Westlake Bible Church.  An average of 15 members of neighbor families and 15 members of volunteer families participate weekly.

The Breakfast Program feeds 60 to 80 people a nutritious meal every Wednesday through Friday.  A devotional time (where volunteers read a spiritual passage and lead a prayer) is followed by breakfast and coffee prepared and served by volunteers.

Weekday Services involve volunteers and staff working with neighbors throughout the day.  Trinity Center provides basic necessities such as restrooms, a place to sit down, a temperature-controlled environment, and beverages.  Also, our chapel is available for individual or small-group prayer.  Neighbors can use our computer lab and phone calling service (local every day and long-distance on Fridays) to maintain contact with family members and friends, to search the Internet, and to seek employment and services.  Staff and volunteers also help neighbors one-on-one to learn about and contact social service resources in the community.  Finally, a volunteer provides haircuts free-of-charge.

Direct Assistance provides small amounts of financial assistance to cover the costs of Texas photo identification cards, birth certificates, school records, or other documents necessary for obtaining a photo ID.  Trinity Center staff and volunteers provide not only funds but also information and guidance to help neighbors navigate the complex process of obtaining identification documents.  This program also assists with prescription medication costs, Capital Metro Disability Fare Cards, and Capital Metro 24-hour bus passes.

Case Management is intensive one-on-one work where neighbors set housing or personal stability goals (related to education, employment, health care, mental health care, and the like) with a case manager, then work to achieve those goals.  Case management is provided by an AmeriCorps Member via Trinity Center’s partnership with the Keep Austin Housed project.

The Reading Eyeglasses Program involves Trinity Center volunteers providing non-prescription reading glasses to approximately 15 people per week.  The glasses help neighbors to see and read and, therefore, manage the activities of daillyy living more easily.

“Friday Feed”/ “Popcorn Theology” is a time when neighbors and seminarians from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest watch and discuss a movie with a spiritual or life-affirming theme over lunch (when school is in session) or popcorn.  This program provides recreation and time for spiritual connections between the two groups.

Sack Lunches are donated lunches containing nutritious, non-perishable food and juice.  They are given to neighbors in special situations where they will not be able to access food, for example, while staying with a loved one in the hospital, while traveling, or to manage blood glucose levels.

Haircuts are provided by a volunteer several days a week.  The volunteer donates his time and skills so neighbors can receive a haircut at no cost.

Emergency Cold-Weather Shelter is a program where St. David’s volunteers use Trinity Center to offer overnight accommodations and a hot meal to homeless women and their children on Saturday or Sunday nights when the temperature falls below freezing.  Trinity Center partners with Austin Area Interreligious Ministries (AAIM), Front Steps/ARCH, The Salvation Army, Capital Metro, and the City of Austin in this program.

Outreach to Ex-Offenders is an effort to help persons recently released from incarceration to successfully re-enter the community. Texas Reach Out Ministries and the Crime Prevention Institute operate support and educational groups focused on job-readiness and other life-skills activities to help people re-enter the community and avoid recidivism.