Botetourt Resource Center, Inc.
"Together We Make a Difference"
Services
The Categories of Help Offered at the Center Include:
Information & Referral:
The Botetourt Resource Center answers approximately 1,000 calls a year for information and assistance. Calls can include information on renter’s rights, home health services, child care, education resources, where to find classes on various topics, how to fill out public benefit forms, financial assistance, clothes, food, etc.
If a family or individual needs to be connected to a particular agency or service program, the BRC can be the referring agency. Examples of referrals may be to counseling services (Family Service of Roanoke Valley), legal aid (Legal Aid Society of the Roanoke Valley), help with a disability (Blue Ridge Independent Living Center), help with substance or physical abuse (Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare), homeless shelters, public benefits (Botetourt Social Services, Social Security Administration) transportation (Veterans Administration, Medicaid, Botetourt Parks and Recreation/LOA, etc.), for glasses, hearing aids (Lion’s Club), children’s shoes (Buchanan Presbyterian Church), etc.
Case Management and Advocacy:
Families and individuals are helped with budgeting issues, clothing, food, crisis response (a bill, loss from a fire, etc.) transportation, bill negotiation, filing public benefits, Medicare paperwork, birth certificates, health issues, housing issues, medical assistance (glasses, dental, hearing aids, etc).
Specialized Services Provided by the BRC through Partnerships and Collaborations:
* Outreach - Public speaking, agency trainings/presentations, partnerships, etc…)
* BRC Interfaith Crisis Fund - providing county-wide crisis assistance and referred to and supported by 25+ churches, Social Services, etc.
* BRC County-wide recycling network- collecting donated home items, appliances, clothes, furniture, medical equipment, toys, etc.
* BRC Senior Co-Payment Prescription Assistance and Senior Dental Care Project
* BRC Food Pantry (by appointment only)
* BRC Clothes Closet (by appointment only)
* BRC Small Home Repair and Weatherization Program for Seniors
* BRC Free firewood Program (wood supplied and delivered by Mill Creek Baptist Church Volunteers)
* BRC Recreation Programs for Seniors
* BRC Medical Equipment Loan Program
* Facilitation of community adoptions of families for Thanksgiving and Christmas
New ramp built for a senior
- One of the ramps built for an older adult with funds from the Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia.
How You Can Help Us
If you want to help us, please link your Kroger Rewards Card with the Botetourt Resource Center, Inc. by entering the number #81410 either by phoning 1-800-576-4377 and selecting Option 4 or by computer at krogercommunityrewards.com.
You can also help by naming the Botetourt Resource Center, Inc. as your selected charity on the Amazon Smile site: smile.amazon.com. Your eligible purchases will help the BRC.
Our organization will help others and it will not cost you anything but an act of kindness!
Botetourt Food Pantry Information
*Emergency Food Bags – Please call and leave message*1. Buchanan Presbyterian Church – 254-1390/Buchanan Food Pantry
19559 Main St. Buchanan, VA 24066
*Open 2nd & 4th Saturday of each month 9-11 am
2. Botetourt Food Pantry (St. Mark’s Episcopal Church) – 473-2370
221 S. Roanoke Street, Fincastle,VA
Located at St. Mark’s Ministry Center – at the corner of Roanoke & Herndon Streets
*Open Every Saturday 9:30 am – N
3. Troutville Baptist Church – 992-10265520 Lee Hwy, Troutville, VA 24175
*Open 3rd Saturday of every month
9-11 am
4. Bonsack Baptist Church – 977-57014845 Cloverdale Rd, Roanoke, VA 24019
*Every Thursday 8:30 am – 10 am/Serves Cloverdale, Troutville & Daleville
5. Cloverdale Church of the Brethren – 992-1060
4708 Read Mountain Rd, Cloverdale, VA 24077
*Emergency Food Bags – Please call and leave message*
