Emmausgemeinschaft St. Pölten

Founded in 1982, Emmausgemeinschaft St. Pölten is a non-profit association based in St. Pölten, Austria working on housing & homelessness, mental health, addiction +2 more.

The Emmausgemeinschaft St. Pölten is an association founded in 1982 with support from Caritas St. Pölten. It works to integrate socially disadvantaged people and supports individuals in crisis situations in St. Pölten, Lower Austria. Its services include emergency night shelters for men, women and young people, day centres, supported housing, a counselling centre, and socio-economic workplaces and employment placements. Services are open to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, people with mental illness or addiction, long-term unemployed people, and people with criminal records or recently released from prison. The organisation is funded through its own earned income, donations and subsidies from the State of Lower Austria, the Public Employment Service, the Federal Ministry of Justice and the City of St. Pölten. It employs around 170 staff and is supported by volunteers and civilian service workers. Its parent site runs the Emmaus shop and second-hand furniture sales, and it operates the soogut social supermarket business alongside the association.