About
Judi’s Midnight Diner is a mobile street outreach and harm reduction project in Medford, Oregon. We are a bunch of volunteers, housed and unhoused, supporting poor and unhoused folks to meet basic needs. At its heart, Judi’s is a community space where everyone is welcome.
Whether you’re displaced by wildfires or COVID, sleeping in a car, or just having a rough night, Judi’s offers a community space for connection, a bite to eat, mutual aid, and a cup of coffee. There’s no intake process, and no referral form -- we’re literally just people hanging out, so come on by!
Judi’s has a big box truck that we set up in Medford parking lots, where we offer free food, helpful items from toothbrushes to sleeping bags, and harm reduction supplies - including Narcan, clean needles, and more. In the winter, we set up a heated, three-sided tent to help folks stay warm in an outdoor space with low risk for COVID transmission. We also show movies on the side of the truck!
We are rooted in the core values of mutual aid, abolition, harm reduction, genuine human relationships, and community organizing. We are led by queer, mad, disabled, and unhoused community members, We are adamantly anti-racist and anti-fascist. We are inspired by revolutionary movements that expose and oppose oppression in its many forms, and we are committed to creating a more just and awesome world.
Judi's is an all volunteer run project with no bosses or bureaucracy, and whatever money we get goes directly into the project. A lot of what we give out depends on what people donate to us -- clothes, sleeping bags, tents, dog food, tampons, and more. Support Judi's today by donating or becoming a Patron!
In The News
September 12, 2023 - Facing backlash over $1.5 million state grant, Stabbin’ Wagon speaks out (The Lund Report)
December 1, 2022 - Advocates’ survey says homeless residents are frustrated with Rogue Retreat (JPR)
August 18, 2022 - Supporters rally for McComas (Mail Tribune)
January 16, 2022 - Local volunteer group seeking winter donations for homeless (NBC5)
January 13, 2022 - Medford volunteer group seeking donations to continue helping homeless community (Fox 26)
December 16, 2021 - Homeless advocates react to apparent hypothermia death of 29-year-old man on Greenway (News 10)
November 4, 2021 - Local mutual aid groups host winter weather clothing drive for the homeless (News 10)
February 15, 2021 - Pop-Up Diner Provides Safe Warming Space In Medford (JPR)
January 26, 2021 - Volunteers launch 'Judi's Midnight Diner' to help displaced residents stay warm (News 10)
January 25, 2021 - Temporary warming area moving around valley to help people in need (NBC5)
October 7, 2020 - As Wildfires Rage, Mutual Aid Builds and Strengthens Community in the Rogue Valley (Agency)