Ministries United Silver Spring/Takoma Park, Inc. (MUSST)

Ministries United Silver Spring Takoma Park, Inc. (MUSST) is a private, non-profit organization whose mission is to assist economically-disadvantaged clients in the lower Silver Spring and Takoma Park area of Montgomery County, Maryland (defined as postal zip codes 20901, 20910, 20912, and county areas of 20783) to cope with financial emergencies caused by loss of job or reduction in work hours, sickness or injury, family or relationship crises, or other situations that pose an immediate threat to a client’s health and/or well-being.

MUSST carries out this mission by:

•  Providing one-time emergency monetary grants to help clients avoid eviction from their homes; obtain a new residence if they are homeless; maintain or restore heat, water, and electric utilities that are shutoff or threatened by shutoff; and to purchase needed medical prescriptions they could not otherwise afford.  
• Assisting clients to receive other types of assistance such as emergency dental and eye care, food assistance, clothing, furniture, etc. from other cooperating agencies by performing the screening and referral procedures that enable clients to receive those agencies’ assistance.
• Providing limited follow-on assistance to help clients toward a long-term solution of their financial emergency. This can include helping clients to whom MUSST provided monetary assistance to take financial management courses or to enroll in programs that provide more extended help or support beyond MUSST’s emergency financial grants.

Helped clients to complete their referral to our organization and others.

Check and return messages.

Answer telephone.