WELCOME

CHA CARES works to give dignity and upward mobility to each family we serve. Our desire is to help people find and travel their path.

Our services include weekly food deliveries to our properties and tenants, community gardens, and now the Urban Thistle Farm.

CARES Programs

Family Self Sufficiency

Guidance for success

The Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) Team offers supportive services to families served by Casper Housing Authority. This team can connecting tenants to necessary resources and job opportunities. Their services help families maintain housing and achieve upward mobility.

By running the CARES Free Store, the FSS Team connects individuals and families to clothing, housewares and food. The Free Store is available to everyone in our community, expanding our reach and connection within the community we serve.

ReFabb

Reduce-Reuse-Upcycle

ReFabb is a local reuse/upcycle store.

Donations of new & used building materials, tools, home improvement items, and some furniture are accepted.

Not only does ReFabb provide job training opportunities, it is a mechanism for upward mobility, enabling access to items otherwise too costly for homeowners to access. This program empowers our community through access to tools and supplies for local housing improvments.

Urban Thistle Farm

Growing good food - Healing Community

The Urban Thistle Farm will create a food hub centered on the ideal that food is a basic human right.

Located in the heart of North Casper we are rehabilitating an empty school and grounds to become:

An urban Farm
Community Gathering Space
Neighborhood Grocery offering staples and items produced on site
Food aggregation and processing
Jobs and career training
and more.

This program is an extension of CHAnge Course Career Center and CARES.

CHAnge Course Career Center

Upward Mobilty

The CHAnge Course Career Center is an exciting addition to the needs of job training/retraining for the workforce of Wyoming.

At CHAnge Course we collaborate with job training programs, private industries, and internship providers to offer a diverse range of opportunities to our clients.

We are excited to offer a 1-year program within CARES at the Urban Thistly Farm & Market - where participants will learn the soil to seed to market jobs and experience will leave them with a vast number of job skills for their own upward mobility.

CARES Free Store

Free Resources

The Free Store is a wonderful resource for low income families in need of clothing household items, and personal care products.

Our mission is to provide these items free of charge to those who need them most. believe that everyone deserves access to basic necessities, and we are proud to be able to help in any way we can.

Looking to donate new or gently used items? We welcome your donations! Please note that donation drop off times are by appointment only. Thank you for your generosity!

Food Program

We are the Change

The Casper Housing Authority (CHA) is dedicated to supporting our residents by providing essential resources.

We offer a mobile food pantry to each property on regular basis, as well as dry goods through our Free Store for those in need. Additionally, snacks are available in the main office.

Our goal is to ensure our residents have access to the basic necessities of life, and we proud to offer these services to our community.