Good Samaritan Ministries

Good Samaritan Ministries is a Catholic social service organization serving Helena and the surrounding area. We walk alongside individuals and families experiencing poverty, homelessness, housing instability, recovery challenges, and other barriers to stability. Rooted in the Gospel call to love our neighbor, we provide practical assistance while treating each person with dignity, compassion, and respect.

Our programs address needs across a continuum of care. Our Place, our recovery-oriented day drop-in center, offers peer support, basic necessities, resources, community connections, and assistance navigating services. Our Street Outreach Team builds relationships with neighbors experiencing unsheltered homelessness, provides essential supplies, and connects individuals with housing, healthcare, treatment, benefits, and other community resources.

Through the Good Samaritan Assistance Ministry, we provide direct financial assistance to help individuals and families overcome immediate barriers to stability, including housing deposits, utilities, transportation, medical expenses, treatment costs, childcare, and other essential needs. We also provide vouchers for needed clothing and household goods through our Thrift Store.

Our Thrift Store is both a community resource and a social enterprise supporting our mission. It provides affordable clothing, furniture, household goods, and other necessities, creates meaningful volunteer opportunities, diverts usable items from the waste stream, and generates revenue that helps sustain our charitable programs.

Across all of our programs, we emphasize relationship, dignity, collaboration, and practical solutions. We partner with nonprofits, churches, businesses, government agencies, volunteers, donors, and community members to strengthen the network of support available to our neighbors.