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***Attention*** February EFA (financial assistance) 7th AND 21st 9:00 AM -10:30 AM


OPENING HOURS:

FOOD DISTRIBUTION:

Mon    9am-12pm

Wed    9am-12pm

Fri       9am-12pm


FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:

1st and 3rd Fridays each month from 9am-10:30 am

First 10 clients will be served.

Please come with documentation of your circumstances.

Families may receive assistance twice every 12 months.

For more info, call 706-253-4778

CARES Food Ministry

We're here to "Share Love and Life's Essentials" by offering counseling, food and financial assistance to our Pickens County neighbors in need. We provide food to around 250 households each week. Let us help or come help with us! 

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

CARES provides Emergency Financial Assistance every first and third Friday of each month. Each year, CARES shares over $60,000 of assistance to Pickens County residents in need. Families may receive assistance twice every 12 months.

Community Connections

Our community is full of people who want to help. We work to help the people providing services and employers with the people who need them. Come along as we connect with people in new ways.


Who We Are

Our hISTORY

 CARES was born in the hearts of loving and courageous people at Holy Family Episcopal Church (Jasper, GA) in 1997.  From that handful of servants has emerged a family of nearly 100 volunteers providing friendship and food to just under 200 families each and every week. 

Our MISSION

  Our mission is to provide food and essential non-food items, temporary financial assistance, resource counseling and educational assistance to those in need who are residing in Pickens County, Georgia.  Anyone in a difficult situation due to illness, accident, layoff or any misfortune that causes them to be in a temporary or emergency need of the basics -food and emergency assistance with housing - is welcome to be a recipient.  It is our devout hope that those who receive these goods and services will be strengthened in body and spirit. We are more than a food pantry. We want you to know you are loved!

CARES is Community

 Our amazing family of volunteers and staffers are committed to helping others reach that "next place" in their life journey. We take our convictions and turn them into action and find a lot of joy and fun along the way!  Think you would be a good fit? Get in touch for more information! 


CARES Leadership

Executive Director – Brian Ergle

Warehouse Operations – Billy Echols

Admin-Monica Wisdom


Board of Directors

  • Board Chair – Chris Van der Walt*
  • Past Chair – Angie Jones*
  • Denise McCabe – Treasurer*
  • Gene Berry – Secretary*
  • Robin Dunn, (Publicity)*
  • Levonne Leuenberger (HR)*
  • Susan Armstrong (Volunteer Rep)
  • Andy Edwards (Facilities)
  • Max Caylor (Spiritual)
  • Vicky Harkins
  • Mark Leuenberger

*Executive Committee


CARES. iNC.

COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE RESOURCES 

AND EMERGENCY SERVICES OF PICKENS COUNTY, INC.

TAX ID 20-1056579

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