Location:
Justice A.A. Birch Building
408 2nd Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37219
Phone: (615) 880-3672
Fax: (615) 880-3674
About the Metropolitan Davidson County Shelter Court
The Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County General Sessions Courts along with several non-profits and Baker Donelson Legal Clinic launched the Nashville Shelter Court program in September 2020 to assist our homeless. The location is at the Strobel House, 110 Jo Johnston Ave Nashville, TN 37201. Strobel House is Nashville’s permanent supportive housing development and offers wrap-around services, laundry accessibility on each floor of the facility, mailboxes, bike racks on-site, as well as a state-of-the-art computer lab.
Shelter Court is a diversionary court that routes individuals who struggle with homelessness out of the traditional legal outcomes of convictions, incarceration, and probation and toward connection with service providers that can further assist with removing barriers to employment and housing. Shelter Court has helped 64 individuals and has seen only 1 rearrest from 2019 to date.