Sacramento County

Guide 2 lists the shelter and Coordinated Entry contacts for Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Clara, Alameda and Sacramento counties.

Sacramento County

Sacramento's Coordinated Access System helps make sure people most at risk are served first. A specialist checks what is open and what you qualify for.

Dial 211, then press 8, for shelter, housing and other homeless services.

Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 7 pm.

Toll free 1 844 546 1464, or 916 498 1000 (still press 8).

Source: https://www.sacramentostepsforward.org/access-support/

Sacramento County: Coordinated Access

Sacramento's Coordinated Access System helps make sure people most at risk are served first. A specialist checks what is open and what you qualify for.

Dial 211, then press 8, for shelter, housing and other homeless services.

Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 7 pm.

Toll free 1 844 546 1464, or 916 498 1000 (still press 8).

Source: https://www.sacramentostepsforward.org/access-support/

Sacramento County Veterans Service Office

Free help for Veterans from the county. This office is not the VA.

Call 916 874 6811.

3075 Prospect Park Drive, Suite 170, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670

Claims help by appointment only, 8 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 4 pm. If you are more than 15 minutes late, they will reschedule you.

Walk in, no appointment, for DMV verification forms, college fee waivers, dropping off claims paperwork, and urgent VA matters.

Source: https://ha.saccounty.gov/us/en/services/veterans-services.html

Sacramento: Youth Resource Guide app

A free phone app that helps transition age youth find housing support and other local help, with live 211 Sacramento support.

Find it here: https://www.sacramentostepsforward.org/access-support/

Or dial 211, then press 8.

Source: https://www.sacramentostepsforward.org/access-support/

Sacramento County: no fee birth certificate

Who can sign your affidavit: a government or nonprofit agency that serves homeless people, a California lawyer, a school homeless liaison or school social worker, a state funded social service provider, or a police or sheriff's homeless liaison. Both of you must sign. One free copy per application.

Apply in person, by mail or by fax, in the county where you were born.

Get the Affidavit of Homeless Status here: https://ccr.saccounty.gov/us/en/no-fee-birth-certificate-for-homeless-persons.html

Source: https://ccr.saccounty.gov/us/en/no-fee-birth-certificate-for-homeless-persons.html

Sacramento: Vital Document Legal Hotline

Listed by Sacramento Steps Forward for help getting vital documents.

Call 1 888 870 3627 (1 888 870 DOCS).

Wednesdays, 9 am to 5 pm Pacific.

Source: https://www.sacramentostepsforward.org/access-support/

Students can ask their school's homeless liaison. Sacramento County lists school liaisons as people who can sign the birth certificate affidavit.

Shelter space is limited and it changes every day. Nobody can promise a bed.

Last checked Oct 12, 2026.