St. Vincent de Paul relies on school and community food drives, businesses, and private individuals to help supply the food needed to keep families from going hungry. The all-volunteer Edyth and Carl Linder Choice Food Pantry provides grocery supplements. Rather than providing a cooked meal, the pantry gives patrons the items needed to prepare and serve meals in their own homes.
Operation Bootstrap is a job readiness program that helps chronically unemployed, including recent graduates of chemical abuse programs, to re-enter the job market. Operation Bootstrap through an intensive and holistic approach focuses on the whole person by providing physical education, nutrition classes, and in-depth career counseling. Following graduation from the program, social workers help place candidates in full-time jobs.
The Neighborhood Ministries Program has conference members work in small volunteer groups (Parish Conferences), generally associated with Catholic parishes, to care for neighborhoods in need, regardless of race, creed, or background. The charity has 56 Parish conferences that help people in need of assistance with the basic needs that include food, shelter, rent and utilities, clothing, transportation, and emotional comfort.
St. Vincent de Paul has six thrift store locations throughout the Greater Cincinnati area and the stores provide low-cost and no-cost quality used furniture, household items, and clothing. For individuals who are on a fixed income or are low-income and cannot afford to shop at full-priced stores are given vouchers to allow them to “purchase” furniture, clothing, and household items from the stores at no charge.
St. Vincent de Paul Charitable Pharmacy provides free medication and professional pharmaceutical care to help low-income individuals meet their most urgent prescriptive needs. Clients are screened to see if they are eligible to receive services.
Crisis Services provides assistance to individuals who are facing emergencies receive help with rent, utilities, job training, food, and clothing to help them get back on their feet and into programs that can provide long-term solutions to their on-going problems.