Hosea Youth Services (HYS) . . .

. . . brings together civic and faith based ministries committed to serving young people particularly the homeless and disenfranchised. HYS provides food, laundry, showers, clothing, and shelter. Referral and casework assistance includes finding work, housing, educational and medical resources.

At Hosea we serve over 8,000 meals a year, provide 1,500 nights of shelter care and provide hundreds of street kids a place to shower, do laundry, obtain clothes, bus tokens, referral and just rest in a safe place. While there are success stories around jobs, housing, medical care and education we like to think every meal served and every night of hospitality is a success if done motivated by love and with joy. All of this is possible because of the generosity and time of volunteers and donors who actively contribute to make this possible.

Ken Harvey
Executive Director

See our recent event videos at:

• Click Here to See all the HYS Auction Videos
• "HYS Charity Auction"
• "About Hosea Youth Services-1"
• "About Hosea Youth Services-2"
• Hosea Homeless Youth PowerPoint Presentation

These are a few of the things we've heard from the young people we've served:

“Thanks for being there to help me with a ride home from the hospital; I didn’t have anyone else to call.”

“I appreciated you staying open late so I could get dinner, I was hungry from working hard all week but I was not getting paid till Monday and I didn’t have any food at my place.”

“My caseworker at Hosea paid for a copy of my birth certificate. It was the first time I knew where my dad was from. Then he waited with me at the social security office and took me to the DMV for a photo ID so I could get a job. I had no family to help me.”

"I lead them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them."

Hosea 11:4