Code Blue

A Code Blue in Lower Merion and Montgomery County, PA, is declared when temperatures or wind chills are forecasted to be at or below 32°F for two or more hours. During these emergencies, free, temporary, overnight shelter is available for those in need. For immediate assistance, residents can contact the Your Way Home call center at 610-278-3522 or call/text 9-1-1. 

During the month of March 2026, AUMC will be on call as a shelter to provide safe, warm, overnight housing for up to 6 adult men.     

Let’s love and care for our unhoused neighbors by being ready and available. Call our church office at 610-649-4382 or email aumeth@verizon.net if you are able to help. Volunteers are needed to work in teams of 2 over two shifts each night from 8:30pm-1:30am and/or 1:30am-6:30am.  See below on how to sign up to volunteer.

On-call volunteers can be anyone who is 18 and older. Individuals with clinical and/or social work experience (social workers, nurses, physicians, clinical counselors, EMT’s, etc.) are encouraged to volunteer. The evenings are split into two five-hour shifts: 8:30 PM to 1:30 AM and 1:30 AM to 6:30 AM, with two on-call volunteers needed for each shift. When Code Blue declarations are called, volunteers will welcome guests and provide monitoring and assistance as needed.   During shelter shifts, volunteers will have 24-hour access to support professionals that can assist by phone as well as respond on-site as needed.

All volunteers need to complete a current background check through Pennsylvania’s PATCH system. Your background check verification is produced as a pdf file that contains the Pennsylvania keystone symbol as a watermark. Please email the pdf file to codebluelm@gmail.com. 

For further information please email Volunteer Coordinator at codebluelm@gmail.com, or Pastor Tamie Scalise, Ardmore UMC Shelter Coordinator, at pastortamie@gmail.com.