Community Resources

Local Community Resources for BTCS Families

Information below is not a full list of community resources. Please contact the BTCS Family Resource Center for additional information. All adresses are Bristol, Tennessee unless otherwise noted.

General Needs

  • United Way of Bristol TN/VA: (423) 968-4912

  • 211/Contact-Concern of NE Tennessee, Inc.: (423) 246-2273

Food Assistance

  • Salvation Army of Bristol

  • 137 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

  • Phone (423) 764-6156

  • Breakfast provided for those using shelter services:  Lunch: noon-12:30 p.m.: Dinner:  5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

  • Haven of Rest

  • 624 Anderson St.

  • Phone: (423) 968-2011

  • Food Pantry:  Tuesday/Thursday by appointment 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.:  Dinner daily:  5:00 p.m.

  • Bristol Emergency Food Pantry (in front of First Baptist Church)

  • 21 Washington St., Bristol, VA

  • Phone: (423) 571-4449

  • Hours of operation:  Monday-Friday 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.  (Picture ID and Social Security cards of all in home required unless homeless)

  • Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church Food Pantry

  • 1127 Virginia Ave.

  • Phone: (423) 968-1353

  • Hours of operation:  first and third Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of each month  2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Housing/Shelter Assistance

  • Salvation Army of Bristol (See Section B for contact information.)

  • Serves men, women, children

  • Check-in is at 6:30 p.m.

  • Haven of Rest (See Section B for contact information.)

  • Serves: men, women, emergency family shelter       

  • Bristol Tennessee Housing and Redevelopment Authority

  • 204 Bluff City Hwy.

  • Phone: (423) 274-8150

Financial Assistance

  • Bristol Faith in Action

  • 1534 Euclid Ave., Bristol, VA

  • Phone: (276) 466-8292

  • Served by appointment only:  rent, utility payments, mortgage payments, prescriptions, diapers, emergency food

  • Salvation Army of Bristol (Section B for contact information.)

  • Served by appointment only:  food, housing, utility assistance

  • Neighborhood Service Center (Upper East Tennessee Human Development Agency)

  • 522 Alabama St.

  • Phone: (423) 968-3951

  • Rent, mortgage payment, household goods for homeless, food

Medical

  • Healing Hands Health Center

  • 245 Midway Medical Park

  • Phone:  (423) 652-0260

  • Health services for working, uninsured

  • Crossroads Medical Mission

  • Mobile health clinic providing medical services to uninsured and underinsured

  • Call (276) 466-1600 for appointment.

  • Sullivan County Regional Health Department

  • 154 Blountville Bypass   Blountville, TN

  • Phone: (423) 279-2777

Clothing

  • Haven Thrift Store

  • 124 Pennsylvania Ave.

  • Salvation Army Thrift Store

  • 1224 West State St.

Mental Health Needs

  • Bristol Regional Counseling Center: Frontier Health

  • 26 Midway St.

  • Phone: (423) 989-4500