Our Path Home Provides List of Warming Spaces, Services

With temperatures getting colder as we enter the winter months, Our Path Home is launching their 2025 Winter Resource Guide to provide a list of warming locations offered by partners throughout Ada County and to highlight expanded services for community members experiencing homelessness, from health and crisis services, to food pantry locations. The Winter Resource Guide is a partnership effort to meet the demand for safe and accessible shelter options during winter. Locations and services are available from December to March. Our Path Home collaborates with local partners including Interfaith Sanctuary, Boise Rescue Mission, Corpus Commons, City of Boise Parks and Recreation, Boise Public Library, CATCH’s Street Outreach and the Treasure Valley Family YMCA.

“During harsh Idaho winters our partners, who already provide emergency services day in and day out, collaborate on a plan that goes the extra mile to try to ensure none of our neighbors are left without a safe, welcoming space to go in the cold,” said Casey Mattoon, Our Path Home manager.

The guide, which outlines specific locations and services, can be found online at ourpathhome.org/get-help/winter-safety-tips/. Community partners and public locations can request printed copies of the Winter Resource Guide by contacting info@ourpathhome.org.

Addressing the winter cold in Ada County requires a community-wide effort, and anyone can support these efforts through a financial or item-based donation. Our Path Home partners are asking for donations of much needed seasonal supplies including socks, gloves and hats, sleeping bags, shoes and more.

"We are seeing more guests than ever before and everything helps,” said Jessica Abbott, Executive Director of Corpus Commons, the daytime emergency shelter in downtown Boise. “The more people we can keep safe and warm during the day means less people on the streets trying to survive safely.”

For a complete list of items in need and how to donate them visit the Winter Items in Need list. You can also donate directly to the Emergency Overflow Program, which gives partner agencies additional funding to expand emergency services to those in need during extreme seasons.

For anyone experiencing a housing crisis, get connected to help by calling the Housing Crisis Hotline: 208-336-HOME (4663).

Our Path Home is the public/private partnership comprising more than 40 agencies committed to ensuring homelessness is increasingly rare, brief, and singular experience in Ada County.