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Knox Area Rescue Ministries - KARM

Address
418 North Broadway
Knoxville, TN - 37927

Contact
(865) 673-6540
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Fax Number (865) 673-6556

Overnight Shelter
4:30pm - 6:30pm
(After 6:30pm, guests must present proper documentation to receive overnight shelter.)
KARM provides the basic needs of food, safety, and shelter for those in emergency need. KARM is the only facility of this magnitude in the Knoxville area. Without KARM, most, if not all, of the Knoxville area's homeless would be living in cars, on the streets or in campgrounds.

Meals
Breakfast: 6:15am - 7:45am
Lunch: 11:15am - 12:45pm
Dinner: 4:15pm - 5:45pm

Crossroads Welcome Center
8:00am - 11:30pm
11:30am - 1:00pm - Closed
1:00pm - 4:00pm

Crossroads Welcome Center is a welcoming place for those who truly want help and are willing to take a challenging first step towards correcting their state. Crossroads - Handing out Mail
Crossroads is designed to be a starting point to help the homeless in the greater Knoxville area initiate the process of change in their homeless situation. Our objectives are simple meet the homeless where they are 'on the street and introduce them to the opportunities, resources and services that will help them correct their presenting problems and issues causing their homelessness.
Located on the main campus at 418 North Broadway, access via the Broadway parking area, Crossroads Welcome Center is open Monday through Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. We close daily from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. during lunch.

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If you have stayed in this shelter, how was your stay?

User Answers

  1. Outstanding

    Answer posted on Apr 21, 2021 0

  2. Horrible experience Nothing but thieves and people using drugs and alcohol

    Answer posted on Apr 22, 2021 0

Is this a safe shelter to stay in?

User Answers

  1. Yes

    Answer posted on Apr 21, 2021 0

  2. That's a complicated question. It's safer than right outside the door, the street outside and under the bridge is terribly unsafe. They will kick you out for 'disrespect' over the slightest thing - especially if you are questioning what the staff are doing - when the staff is actually in the wrong. It doesn't matter what time of day or night it is, if you say so much as "What? Why?" to a staff who is saying something that makes no sense, you're 'disrespectful' and out the door.

    Answer posted on Feb 15, 2024 0

Do they accept pets at this shelter?

User Answers

  1. No

    Answer posted on Nov 29, 2020 0

Do you have any advice for those wanting to stay at this shelter?

User Answers

  1. Don't trust staff with your belongings. They want you to put your things in their bag room and peoples' things come up missing out of the locked bag room all the time.

    Answer posted on Feb 15, 2024 0

  2. Come to Karm and they will take care of you.

    Answer posted on Dec 1, 2022 0

  3. Don't fall for the Love Bombing in the launchpoint class, and agree to join any of their live in programs. Berea (now called something else) destroyed person after person who was in the program during the time that I stayed there. They all left badly shamed and broken. They use you and then destroy you when they can't control you anymore.

    Answer posted on Feb 15, 2024 0

How long can you stay here?

User Answers

  1. As long as you follow the rules

    Answer posted on Mar 28, 2021 0

3 Comments

  1. Julia
    Julia
    Jun 8, 2019Reply
    The shelter is amazing it helped me.But working for the warehouse was not an good experience for me.To much favoritism and division to a certain point
  2. Ike
    Ike
    Jul 5, 2019Reply
    This place is not good they let people fight barely give people food
  3. Jon
    Jon
    Apr 21, 2021Reply
    KARM gives you a warm bed, food, and fellowship. I stayed there for a period in 2006 and the only problems I saw were those who did not follow the rules.

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